We've had a loss by less than 3 scores? I don't remember one, I thought everyone had been by at least 17, with most of the losses by like 40, including at least 1 shut out (I was at that one in '09, oy!). Oh wait, just hit me, did Hazell have a loss up there where we literally didn't try to win and we kept running the ball even though it was admitting defeat?
Yep. 2015. The game that resulted in me
emailing Morgan Burke demanding that John Shoop (if not Hazell as well) be shown the door.
That game it was clear that the coaching staff had no intention of winning. It was run, run, run, and hope that the game is as short as possible with the clock continuing to run that it will be over quickly.
With Morgan no longer there, we can only hope that PU will open the wallet and give him some of that TV money to keep him there. Tiller proved it could be a destination. Maybe Brohm could do the same.
Joe Tiller was a.) a different cat than almost any football coach and b.) a decade older than Brohm when Purdue hired him. I think age, more than anything, kept him off most radars. I think we broke this down when discussing the Riley hire, about how rare it was for a P5 program to hire a head coach of his age. Granted Tiller wasn't as old as Riley was either.
I think Brohm is perhaps a bit of a different cat than most football coaches.
Among Purdue fans, there is concern that he will eventually leave us to go right back to Louisville, being his alma mater and his brother's, whenever Petrino decides to walk away. That said, given some of the things that have gone on with Louisville athletics recently, perhaps he won't. He seems like a man of character, and Louisville seems VERY slimy of late.
If he has dreams of coaching at the highest levels (whether CFB or NFL), we simply cannot give him enough money to stay. Because that's something Purdue can never really offer. Realistically a shot at the college football playoff is unlikely to occur for a team like Purdue more than once every 30 years or so, if that.
But if he's looking for a "destination" job, Purdue ain't half bad. We won't have the pressure of some of the helmet schools. Knocking out 8-9 wins a year with the occasional upside of going to the B1G CCG every 3-4 years is enough for us and the rare downside of 6 wins, and I think he could put that together once he gets his system fully in place. He could coach the rest of his career at Purdue with results like that without worrying about his job security.