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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?

Either way, I love, LOVE what Brohm is doing and have complete 100% faith he is taking us to big things once he gets enough time to get his players to create depth.  With that huge Minn win, I think we win 7 if not 8 (absolutely mindbogglingly insane to be saying that with a straight face considering where we were last year), but let me break the news to everyone.....it ain't happening this weekend.  

Wisc has them big corn fed boys on the OL like they always do, and will pummel us into submission just like Mich did, except for I actually fear more of an asskicking since unlike Mich, Wisc is legit now and not a year away.  If this is somehow still a 1 score game at the half, it will quickly change by the late 3rd quarter unless Wisc completely looks ahead along with having a -4 TO margin.

Wisc will win.  I'll go with 45-17.

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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.

Iowa might be the toughest game left. It's always a bloodbath and they have shown they can compete with the best in the conference when they played MSU and PSU tough. Michigan will be tough. Maryland is no slouch if they can get the QB going. Road games remaining are Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota. Illinois should be a win. Indiana is tricky and for Minnesota it's their Superbowl.

The only "should win" I see on the schedule is the game at Illinois. Anyone else could trip them up. They also cannot afford any more injuries.

Nobody expected this preseason but right now I see this as the game of the year in the B1G-W.  Standings:

• 2-0 Wisconsin
• 2-1 Nebraska (lost to UW)
• 1-1 Purdue (lost to East team)
• 1-2 Iowa (lost to two East teams)
• 0-2 Minnesota (lost to PU and an East team)
• 0-2 Illinois (lost to UNL, Iowa)
• 0-2 Northwestern (lost to UW and an East team)

Wisconsin already beat Nebraska and other than these two teams, everybody else in the B1G-W already has at least two losses.  Iowa is at least arguably still in it because both losses were to B1G-E teams but they still have to host Ohio State and travel to Madison so I just don't see it.  

If Wisconsin wins this they'll effectively have a two-game cushion over everybody else.  

I think a lot of us non-helmet school fans like to get hopeful this way, but the truth is that it pretty much never works out like that.  And I'm not saying MSU is above that either.  I think we got lucky that Dantonio won in a way that wasn't really all that flashy, and that he too was a little older when he got the job, that he was less desirable.

Of course. Much like Tiller at Purdue. He was clearly ready for the "final" job of his career. I think Dantonio may not have deliberately come to MSU for his final job, but by the time his stock was highest, he probably wasn't up for a change to a "bigger" job.
My point is that if Brohm wants bigger, nothing ($$) we can offer him will keep him at Purdue. But if he doesn't, it's not like we're some G5 backwater. 

"If we all were hanging out I could tlk about this for 3 hours."


I'm pretty sure we've done that bro. 

Wisky?