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Overpaying on an unproven coach shows exactly why we are in the mess that we are. So, where should our expectations need to be? We have a top tier NIL budget, we have better fan support and history than almost any other school. Should we not expect to be able to hire a top half of the conference coach? Is that asking too much?

With the right amount of money coaches can be bought. Would he have to be overpaid, definitely. But that is where fans expect the program to be. Totally invested into winning. We are shopping the bargain aisle, overpaying the discount coach, and ignoring better options. Sad state of affairs if we can’t bring in someone who would be a top 5 B1G coach.

Would our program be winning now if we would have hired Calipari when he was ready to leave Kentucky? Pitino when he was ready to live Siena? For the right amount of money most coaches can be gotten. The question is are we really interested in bringing in, and paying top coaches? We’ve lost our recruiting footprint from the laziness of Woodson but one elite recruiter could fix that in a season. And with genuine curiosity what do you see of DeVries that makes you think he is a winner? I see it the opposite but am looking for anything optimistic.

We don’t need to give a coach that much time. We knew the previous coaches weren’t going to cut it yet drove more fans to apathy by keeping them too long. Hire a top coach and get top results. It really is that simple. Employee coaches that are bottom tier in the B1G and get bottom tier results

He was getting a lot of the praise as an assistant at UCLA when they made a run to the final four. Cronin gave him a lot of public praise for his game planning

Hard to give him a pass. Poor recruiting and inability to hire a staff in a timely manner is a major red flag. Has no evaluation skills as evidenced by the team he assembled and admitted he basically didn’t understand his job (Big Ten basketball). Little to no player development and a lack of scheming ability. Is there any coach in the Big Ten that DeVries would be better than? He is likely no better than 10th and has just been exposed and embarrassed by most of the league this year

Trying to find optimism in this, the “best recruiting class in Purdue history” won’t have the opportunity to get a winning record against IU

It’s on the coach and the players. The players wanted to make a big show about being disappointed about losing to NW the first time. If I remember right Tucker started crying in the press conference and Wilkerson said there is no way we should have lost to NW. Pure theatre. You don’t feel that strong about losing to a team to come out and get rolled by them two weeks later. Clown show all the way around

It does at least make it interesting to follow all of these conference tournaments. Found myself watching pacific and Santa Clara at Midnight on a Sunday hoping for an upset! Still think the 2nd scenario we would be about 50/50 if some of our fellow bubble teams drop their next games

Looks like there are a fair amount of people who still have IU in or one of first out. Even with the letdown yesterday it js still doable. refuse to believe that Auburn is being seriously considered at all. Maybe a first round win and all of our competition keeps losing helps us back into a spot :)

I’m still holding out hope we win the first game and get Central time zone UCLA. That could be our best bet

So we looking now at 3 in the BTT with the loss tonight?

There is part of me that is glad most of these guys won’t be back

Gotta love the irony of the missed foul on DeVries three pointer against NW and seeing Purdue get bailed out by Smith getting 3 free throws on a phantom foul against NW late in the game

Potentially the win may be needed in the BTT because of the likelihood we are playing one of the bottom tier teams in the first one. More about avoiding a bad loss than improving our position