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Burn.It.To.The.Ground.

That's it. 

Purdue has some talent. Not enough. But enough that they shouldn't go 1-11 in completely embarrassing fashion, with their sole win being a drubbing of a sub-.500 FCS team. Enough that their "best win" shouldn't be taking Illinois to overtime. Enough that the coach needs to be fired--which thankfully has already happened. Because you may not be a CFP team with Purdue's talent, but 1-11 is a coaching failure. 

But that's not all. Purdue has to embrace NIL and the transfer portal in a way that I don't think they've even attempted. The juxtaposition against the Indiana Hoosiers, perennial doormat, is too much. This is a team that went from 3-9 last year to 11-1 based on the transfer portal, who curb-stomped the Boilers in a 66-0 drubbing that shows that Purdue needs a culture change.

In the old era of college football, Purdue and Indiana knew their place. You can't out-recruit helmets. The best you can hope for is to be the plucky underdog and fight for bowls. But bowls are worthless now and college football is all about the CFP. So it's put up or shut up time. You're either all in or you might as well not have a team--an idea that's been around Purdue too long, with a previous AD (Morgan Burke) suggesting Purdue wasn't going to join the arms race. 

No. Screw that. Join the arms race and commit, or give up. 

Because fans won't bother watching this crap. I was watching UT/A&M before the 2nd quarter of the Purdue game started yesterday. 

66-0 to Indiana had to be the nail in the coffin.  I thought he'd survive, but that's rough

well, Indiana was pretty good

Indiana should NEVER be 56-7 better than Nebraska

37 points better than MSU
 

but, here we are

well, Indiana was pretty good

But that's the point. We all know Indiana played a Charmin schedule. We all know that they're gonna get smoked in the CFP. 

But if the perennial doormat of the Big Ten can go from 3-9 one year to blowing out "big brother" Purdue (Purdue leads the Old Oaken Bucket series 77-43-6) in a 66-0 shutout the next, going 11-1 and getting a CFP berth... Well, that's a point that leads to staring into the mirror and making some changes. 

Firing Walters was necessary, but not sufficient. A mere coaching change will not fix this. The program needs to examine its culture and commitment to winning, and act in ways that it has never needed to do before, to fix this. 

I get the in-state thing, but,...........

if you're being judged by how you do against Indiana, there's no sense firing a coach that hasn't had 4 seasons

I agree, generally.  Particularly because the whole program building thing is out the window.  It's a year to year sport now.  Not quite as much as college basketball, but enough that there is no such thing as program trajectory, and no more risk that another bad year just puts you farther behind the 8 ball in recruiting

Well, you're judged by more than that at Purdue. Like not giving up the worst loss in program history, and then beating your own new record in the same damn season.

I'll agree with this