They are terrible. Getting absolutely throttled my Syracuse. Brohm gone get a big offer from them soon!
Wow, Louisville has really fallen...
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This is what happens when you can't afford to pay people.
Why the hell would he want to leave Purdue there isn’t a better situation regardless if he played for Louisville at this point and time...
And don’t bring up Frost coming back to Nebraska..
And don’t bring up Frost coming back to Nebraska..
Because only needing to compete with Clemson is preferable to needing to compete with Michigan, Ohio State (game was a fluke this year), Penn State, Michigan St, Wisconsin, Iowa and likely Nebraska.
Because when an NFL team offers him $8mil/year, he's not going to care about grabbing a couple 4* only to get beat by a down MichSt team.
Because he turned down being Saban's OC at Alabama to stay at Louisville in hopes of a promotion.
Because when Ohio St and USC are looking for new coaches they'll undoubtedly give him a call.
And don't bring up "bUt He TuRnEd DoWn TeNnEsSee" because they may as well be the Minnesota of the SEC.
And as a matter of fact, I will bring up Frost. One of the things many opinionated, arm-chair AD's don't take into account with these coaching moves is staff continuity. Brohm has had tremendous continuity with his 2 OC's Brohm & Shephard as well as his DC Holt who all followed from Western Kentucky. Soon enough, a bigger school is going to try and poach one of these guys, and little Purdue won't be able to compete. You think Troy Walters stays at UCF if Urban Meyer came calling last year?
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Dez Fitzpatrick. Think he had a good FR season but hasn't done as well now that Lamar Jackson went pro.
I think he’s still actually silently committed to Nebraska and plans on transferring to Lincoln soon.
I don't think Bobby Petrino is a bad coach. But when things aren't going well, he has the tendency to make things worse. Louisville lost a couple good assistants and went from being a very good team to a very bad team. Even in Lamar Jackson's last year, you could see the team was in a free fall.
Both Brohm and his wife are from Louisville. Seems like a pretty good reason for a move.
Easier path to a playoff bid or even better bowl bids w the weak sauce ACC schedule and only 8 conf games, fertile recruiting base. Etc.
Think of it this way:
How much $ will they lose when big donors pull away the purse strings if the football team slides anymore? W brohm u can bet more donor money would be pledged to not only buy out petrino but to pay Brohm..
Louisville does have some pretty big donors and some have already taken back multimill pledges partly due to the football slide...
U gotta spend money to make money
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Louisville is home and it is better. Only thing Purdue has going for it is Brohm and he gets to take himself with him whoever he goes.
Louisville is a decent job, and with Brohm's connections there it seems like a perfect fit to me, plus I don't think they expect anyone to compete for natty's year in and year out. I will be more surprised if this doesn't happen, than if it does.
Louisville is a better job football wise than Kentucky. They’ve had their share of successful teams in the past 15 years. Brohm is from Louisville and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t end up there, even though he could do better (NFL). The tricky part is buying out Bobby, which I’m sure they will do so if it means they get Brohm. Hell, we’re still paying two former head coaches this year.
Isn't it weird how Universities always seem to find the change under the couch cushions for football coaches?? Money will not be the stumbling block there. If Brohm wants the job, they'll find the money to buy out Petrino, and pay Brohm 5mil a year.
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While I get your overall point, I wanted to point this out because people have tendencies to oversell the points they are trying to make. He won't play Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan State in the same season. There are only three crossover games each season, and rarely are all three against this pool of four teams. In fact, they will only play up to TWO teams from that crossover pool because they have a permanent crossover with Indiana (the only permanent crossover in Big Ten football, also the only crossover game in the last week of the regular season). Here are Purdue's crossovers:
2015
at Michigan State
vs. Indiana
(last season with 8-game conference schedule, just 2 crossovers)
2016
at Maryland
vs. Penn State
at Indiana
2017
vs. Michigan
at Rutgers
vs. Indiana
2018
vs. Ohio State
at Michigan State
at Indiana
2019
at Penn State
vs. Maryland
vs. Indiana
2020
vs. Rutgers
at Michigan
at Indiana
.
2021
at Ohio State
vs. Michigan State
vs. Indiana
2022
vs. Penn State
at Maryland
at Indiana
2023
vs. Ohio State
at Michigan
vs. Indiana
2024
vs. Michigan State
at Rutgers
at Indiana
2025
at Penn State
vs. Maryland
vs. Indiana
Three times in that period did they play two of the four crossovers you mentioned. They will never play more than that with their permanent crossover with Indiana.
They will play Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, and Wisconsin each season in division games.
Now, if Brohm went to Louisville, he would have the following division games each season: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, NC State, Syracuse, and Wake Forest. That looks similar to the Big Ten West, doesn't it? He would also have crossovers against two of Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, UNC, Pittsburgh, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. Do you think Florida State, Miami, and Virginia Tech will stay down? NC State, Boston College, and Syracuse aren't half bad, either. Throw in Notre Dame's contractual obligation with ACC Football (five games per season, now through 2037), and they will also show up on Louisville's schedule in addition to the eight conference games. Throw in new juggernaut (kidding, sort of) Kentucky to end the season each year.
6-10 years ago, the Big Ten was a slow football conference that was behind the times. That's changed. I don't think those ACC powers will be down for long either (or others will emerge). Ebbs and flows.
True, he wouldn't play them each year but he'd probably play 1 or 2 and then whoever comes out on top for a hypothetical B1G.
My point is, even getting to the B1G Championship would be a Herculean effort for Purdue that would need all the stars to align. Louisville has proved to be very competitive in the weak ACC already.