Coach Walters will not be with Illinois for their Bowl Game. He will be with Purdue, monitoring practices, out recruiting, and assembling his staff.
His first move was a team meeting, giving RB Mockabee a scholarship.
Brian Brohm will call plays for the offense and be acting HC, with Mark Hagen calling plays for the defense.
Gotta agree with Grillrat, I'd be surprised if Purdue keeps this within 2 scores.
However, some interesting tidbits from inside the program...
Apparently there was mass attrition at hand. Sources close to the players are saying half the team does not care at all that Jeff Brohm is gone. Supposedly a bunch of players were going to jump in the portal had Brohm stayed on to coach in 2023. Purdue is also expecting some academic casualties.
It was no secret Brohm was going to Louisville. There's some smoke out there that had the UL job not opened up, Brohm was going to retire and wait on it. Also some smoke that strings were pulled to make the job available. I'm sure Satterfield knew and parleyed it into the Cincinnati job.
Looking back on the season, it makes sense. Purdue should have never lost that Syracuse game (even though the officials were atrocious). The Boilers had undisciplined penalties in a lot of games. Purdue was completely out of focus vs. Iowa and Wisconsin.
I'm hearing the players like Brian Brohm. He has also never really called games, even though he has the OC title, it was always Jeff calling plays (except vs Iowa in 2020 when Jeff had COVID, which was a win).
So maybe this team loosens up a bit and goes out with a bang. I'm only an hour from the Citrus Bowl and still debating on going.
