purdue bringing hazell back for fourth year

Mike Riley making miracles happen.

that is surprising

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I guess they see where they rank on the offseason job opening totem pole and think it's best to give it another year.

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This doesn't capture the whole picture for sure. While Purdue has a lot of things working against it, it has a lot of things working for it too. Mainly, our ability to pay and guarantee a guys contract. Purdue gets just as much BTN money as Ohio State and Michigan do and we've recently commited to spend every cent of instead of having to ship the surplus off to the actual university like we used to.

Sure, some coaches won't want to coach at Purdue. The guys we would be interested in (Campbell, Babers, Fleck) are guys that we could easily land, and I think Babers would be a great fit in the Joe Tiller type mold for a lot of reasons.

That said, I don't think our Head Coach is ALL of the reason our program has been god awful the past 3 years. A lot of the behind the scenes factors have to be changed and our Offensive Coordinator who has never been good at any of his stops NFL or otherwise needs to go before the HC does.

Flat out the reason that we are keeping him around is as a placeholder for when our BTN TV revenues kick up to $45 million before the 2017 season and we can start tossing around $5-8million a year for new coaches.

While the SEC is projected to keep pace with those revenue figures, competitors in the Big12 (unless something changes), ACC and PAC12 will have TV deals worth 1/3 or less than ours and that puts our Athletic Department as a whole at an advantage over other similar P5 schools not in conference. Big changes are coming to the coaching and salary structures for Big Ten schools in the next few years.

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He's only in the third year of a six year deal.

I highly doubt Purdue has the money to just rip through HCs so quickly.

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You don't know, and that's ok.

We'd gladly take Sumlin off of your hands and bring him back home if you'd like!

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The hire was always baffling to me. Kent State had one very lucky, very flukish season where they owned turnover margin and won a lot of close games because of that and having Dri Archer, who may be the fastest human being I have ever seen in person. Turnover margin tends to deviate from season to season, and there aren't many guys like Archer out there.

I'm never a fan of hiring a Group of 5 coach based on one season. I like to see them have multiple seasons of sustained success before making the move. That's the main reason I want Fuente if the UGA job comes open.

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My biggest issue was with Hazell's OC hire. That has put him behind the 8-ball from day 1.

I agree to an extent about coaches that have 1 good year then get scooped up. That said, the guy was everything we wanted as far as pedigree (long time OSU assistant and Tressel disciple). I think we messed up mostly because he thought he could walk into Purdue and immediately grind out games and win like OSU did from 2000-2010. The worst part about it is that we've nabbed some decent QBs over the past 3 years but our OC has made them look like barely functional retards with no development.

So you're a UGA fan? I grew up in Lafayette as a Purdue fan but ended up in GA and went to UGA for undergrad.

What about Brock Spack eventually?

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I guess they see where they rank on the offseason job opening totem pole and think it's best to give it another year.

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Good move

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I guess they see where they rank on the offseason job opening totem pole and think it's best to give it another year.

Good move

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Not hardly. We weren't going to be after the same guys that the big boys were looking for. We would have most likely targeted Babers, Campbell and Fleck and could have easily landed one of them.

We pay, we guarantee our contracts and have decent facilities that will be upgraded soon.

I certainly don't think that Illinois is a better job than ours and really the only success Minnesota has had has been short term and if they move away from hiring their DC, they might move away from that success pretty quickly. Maryland is the only job in conference that is open that I think is better but that's all really based on untapped Under Armour potential.....which is still untapped and they are waiting on having a horse to back before they go all in. The UA guy is on record as saying that they are willing to be the big time booster but that they aren't the ones willing to dig the AD out of massive debt but that once the AD is free and clear of that they will be more willing to hop in and fund future improvements.

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i turned purdue into an absolute, no question, fricking rape dynasty on ncaa 06. my services are available

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In NCAA 12 I brought back the Tiller magic and went full blown air raid. Drew Brees' records didn't stand a chance