Again, how an Illinois basketball fan can talk smack to a Purdue fan considering our respective histories over the last decade is laughable. You guys have been a laughingstock.
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Again, how an Illinois basketball fan can talk smack to a Purdue fan considering our respective histories over the last decade is laughable. You guys have been a laughingstock.
He's going to win far less than that this season. Lovie had less talent, less experience, and more injuries than that roster. Apples to oranges.
You know it's bad for Illinois when Purdue is still beating you during the worst 4-year stretch in the school's football history. Yikes. Illinois is a free W every time you step on the court/field.
Joey Brackets' way too early (and always wrong) 2019 Bracket has the following B1G teams:
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
- Michigan State - 2 seed
- Michigan - 3 seed
- Ohio State - 6 seed
- Purdue - 7 seed
- Nebraska - 9 seed
- Maryland - 10 seed
- Penn State - 11 seed
- Indiana - next four out (after first four out)
- Wisconsin - next four out (after first four out)
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology
Better Purdue then an infestation of fans from a loser program like Illinois, amirite?
Just some guy who loves his alma mater and is not a fan of trolling other fanbases (except Nitewing....he's fair game).
You're dumping water in a puddle. You think I don't know Illinois has been bad?
I'm ok with it. I know Illinois can only go up. It's like the opposite of Purdue. Painter has peaked.
Has he? We’ll never really know since his best teams have sustained serious injuries. Hey maybe Illinois will get better but how long will it take and how many coaches will it take?
You’re ok with Illinois with being bad and I’m OK with Purdue winning 30 games a year & winning bowl games. Deal?
I'm ok with Illinois not settling for guys like Painter. If you can't win it all, next.
Didn’t read past this. Holy fvck, you are ******ed. You honestly think the 2016 Maryland team was better than this Purdue team, that had 4 seniors.
Ill be here commenting. So if you're going to continue to cry about it do us both a favor and put me on ignore.
Yeah because Groce and Underwood are awesome. Hey maybe you’ll luck into a Bill Self again but doubtful.
Talent-wise absolutely. And thanks for making my point for me. The fact that Turg couldn't get more out of that group than Painter did with this years team is mind-boggling.
Agree to disagree. Painter is only 47 years old. People were saying the same thing about Jay Wright when he was 47 and he elevated his status. You can say the same for several others. That doesn't mean Painter will but it's premature (and wishful thinking IMO) to suggest he has peaked.
You don't know what Underwood is yet. He might be better than Painter, who won 9 games his first season.
Groce and Beckman are two terrible coaches that decimated our programs.
They both made it to sweet 16? Neither won the conference or the tournament. You are fvcking dumb.
My biggest concern about Underwood are his connections to Lamont Evans and the ongoing FBI investigation. If the people arrested start talking, they could bring down a lot of people. I'd be uneasy with that lingering if I were an Illini fan.
Turg have a critical injury to one of his best players at a crucial time? No.
Layman, Carter, Sulaimon, Trimble, Stone. Yeah that team under achieved that year for sure. No one thought this years Purdue team would win as much as they did.
Not really worried about that. The report said he was acting independently. If it happens, it happens.
I think all the reports have said that with each program but I have a hard time believing coaches weren't giving direction. I agree that there is no use really stressing about it as there is nothing you can do. But if it did happen, I think it would set Illinois back at least a couple more years.
What? This was the best Purdue team in the KenPom era.
Jay had also gone to an elite eight and final four before this run. He upped his recruiting as well, haven't seen that uptick with Painter.
The difference with Evans and a guy like Pitino is that he was directing guys to agents for cuts. There weren't reports of him leveraging guys to OK St.
One could argue they should have been. That Maryland team was preseason #3 according the the AP. This Purdue team reached that level but certainly weren't expected to (preseason #20).
YES. But they over-achieved in terms of pre-season projections. No one thought they would be this good.
That Maryland team was touted as one of the best in the country before the season and they ended with an OK 12-6 in-league record and a Sweet 16 loss. They underachieved with way more talent than this Purdue team. That's my point. Turg didn't get the most out of that team.
Jesus christ are you seriously arguing that because they didn’t match the preseason polls that they under/overachieved? Guess K sucks, how many times has he been preseason number 1 and failed to win it all? I’m done arguing, if you guys are happy with Painter than so be it.
So your expectations for that team, as a fan, during the pre-season weren't sky high either? Got it. I'm sure the sweet 16 loss and 12-6 conference record felt "about right" at the end of the season. I'm sure you didn't think they under achieved at all.
Sweet picture and use of the spoiler feature man. That was really sick and totally relevant to the argument at hand.
Purdue sucks
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