*Official* B1G Off-season Thread
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Good consolation prize for when the Terps kick some Gopher's butt again next week!
Not sure if you're still here or if the ban hammer has fallen... The cruel irony of you bringing up TJD and Iowa is on full display here...
You're talking about Matt Bain and his Q&A with TJD BEFORE his visit. And following the visit Sean Book, from Hawkeye Insider talked with TJD and then posted his article on how "great" TJD's visit to Iowa was about 3:30 pm yesterday afternoon.
And then less than 2 hrs later, after interviewing TJD and penning his article on the "greatness" of the Iowa visit, Sean was inspired to make his own 247 Crystal Ball pick.And after interviewing TJD, Sean (the IOWA guy) picked..........IU. And that doesn't stand for "Iowa University"...Winking
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What's the point in TJD even making these visits to Iowa? He's never gonna go there. Why waste everyone's time and money?
C'mon, he's wasting everyone's time. I don't see the point in visiting Iowa so many times when he and everyone else knows he's not going there.
Show me the receipts on this one.
Edit: I'm assuming you're referring to this sarcastic post I directed at @Da_Bull when we were all flaming each other about Brohm and Tom Allen.
Do better. Purdue football has won 8+ games in at least two straight seasons like twice in the past 40 years. I've been solidly in the camp of expecting 5-7 wins this season. We lost a ton on defense and the schedule got a lot tougher. Doesn't help when you lose two games in the "soft" part of the schedule either.
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Well you guys are 0-2 to start the season. Guarantee none of you thought that was possible. To take it a step further, I would guess every one of you Purdue fans assumed you would be 2-0 right now.
Breaking news at 11: Fans of sports team had positive outlook for upcoming season. More on this shocking, rapidly developing story after the commercial break."
I don’t think anyone thought the NW game would be a guarantee, nor did Vegas with the line only being -1. Obviously everyone assumed Purdue would beat Eastern Michigan though.
Again. It was more than just a “positive outlook.” Y’all were flat out hyping your team. Now you’re 0-2. Laughing
Tell me more about people making incorrect offseason predictions about Purdue teams...
Throw me in on that one too. I also didn't think Carsen was the beast he became last season.
Lol.... “coming off a bowl win”.
Most fans could step back into reality after a home loss to an average Northwestern team. You guys doubled down pretending it was some sort of moral victory because Northwesten won 10 games once upon a time.
I don't think anyone did. Then again, most people weren't thumping their digital chest challenging people to bets, either.Throw me in on that one too. I also didn't think Carsen was the beast he became last season.
Yeah, Northwestern is a real solid team guys. RollLaugh
But 10 wins last year!
To be fair, Purdue doesn't really have much to thump their digital chests about. Purdue football sucks and Purdue basketball hasn't made it past the Sweet 16 since Bill Clinton left office.
I wouldn't given our history. I would assume, given your program isn't too much different, you would do the same.
Wait, now Vegas matters? I told you guys that Vegas set Northwestern's win total at 6 but none of you could accept that Northwestern maybe isn't that good.
Vegas matters for an unbiased data point imo.
If they predicted 6 wins, that’s also a good data point
And even if NW is so-so this year, it’s the type of game haze would lose by 40+, so the loss didn’t kill the season for the fans, which you seem to think it should have. The emu loss did imo (barring a miracle), so we are headed for a bad season for sure.
But as they say hindsight is 20/20.
Isn't too much different? One program is a little above .500 historically and one is one of the worst P5 programs of all time. That's a little more than "isn't too much different."
Isn't Northwestern notorious for getting off to slow starts? I love how we're having this conversation 2 games into the season. It's still to be determined what type of season NW has.
Purdue has been to 18 bowls in their history and 10 of those were from 97-07. You and I both grew up when Purdue was something, but the times before and since they are just so meh. Purdue has a 48% winning percentage since 1956 and that includes the two best runs in program history.
RollLaugh
Vegas set their preseason win total at 6 wins.
I linked 3 or 4 different objective sources that had Northwestern as a mid tier B1G team preseason.
Northwestern looked average vs Purdue and looked terrible vs Duke.
But...... 10 wins once upon a time!
I’m saying it’s been 2 games and it’s a long season. Care to discuss Michigan? Curious to hear what you expect from them this year.
Two games that Northwestern didn't look like a 10 win team in and the schedule sure as hell doesn't get easier for them going forward. What we've seen this year from Northwestern is more relevant than how many wins they had last year.
I expect there to be struggles for Michigan due to a bad offensive line and possibly the most difficult schedule in the country. Purdue fans talked more about football here than I did this off season, though, so that's a weird side-step.
So Purdue is a bad football program and Indiana is a terrible one. Congrats.
IU is one of the five worst programs in FBS history. Purdue is an unspectacular middle-of-the-road B1G program historically. There's a world of difference. No matter how hard Darrell Hazell tried to change that.
Purdue isn't bad. They're average as the really good times have been muddied by the terrible times. IU has just always been awful for the most part.
48% winning percentage since 1956. 11 coaches and only 4 (one being Brohm's who looks to take a tumble) with a higher winning percentage than 45%. Purdue has had some good runs, but in between those runs is garbage.
It isn't just Darrell Hazell. I took out the interims. That is many many years of bad football
Bob DeMoss 1970–1972 13–18 .419
Alex Agase 1973–1976 18–25–1 .420
Leon Burtnett 1982–1986 21–34–1 .384
Fred Akers 1987–1990 12–31–1 .284
Jim Colletto 1991–1996 21–42–3 .341
Danny Hope 2009–2012 22–27 .449
Darrell Hazell 2013–2016 9–33 .214
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