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Purdue football arrived at its second idle week in the schedule with nowhere to hide from its seven-game performance.
The six consecutive losses determine the 1-6 record. More troubling, though, was how many of those 360 minutes featured non-competitive football on either offense, defense or both. The Boilermakers lived down to last-place preseason expectations. In the new 18-team Big Ten, that could mean finishing farther out of first than any team in history.
Purdue’s players, though, insist the discouraging results have not spoiled the locker room.
“It’s just guys’ love for the game — guys wanting to do better, wanting to get out there and win,” safety Dillon Thieneman said. “Not just for us, but for the coaches too — all the work that they’ve put in, that they’ve been doing for us. Just trying to get out there and do our thing.”
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This season already cost one coach his job, when Ryan Walters dismissed offensive coordinator Graham Harrell. With the underlying poor performance on both sides of the ball and a series of recruiting decommitments, speculation about Walters’ future was inevitable.
ESPN’s Pete Thamel, in a rundown of hot seat coaching situations published Friday, characterized Walters as “expected to receive more time.” That aligns with what I wrote after the Oregon game — that the administration believes in Walters, does not see fractures within the team, but wants to see proof of progress over the final five games.
“We know them. They’re good people,” offensive lineman Marcus Mbow said of why players remain bought in to Walters. “We’ve put our trust in them over this long time. They’re good people on and off the field. They put in…
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Publish date : 2024-10-28 08:20:16
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