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It seems he "failed" quite well, actually. That's the Perdue way!
Matt Painter has downplayed NIL from the start and it's had a trickle down effect among the fan base. Ask any Purdue fan about NIL and they'll tell you it's taboo. Where do you think they got that from?
I haven't spent too much time following the PU approach to NIL, but I do sense that they initially felt they were above all this 'pay to play' stuff...and now that they realize they're swimming against a tsunami, they're scrambling to catch up and probably never will completely. Their 'moral high ground' has turned into the hill they'll die on.
Don't forget about Mitch's op-ed lamenting the new ways and extolling the virtues of club teams that pay their own way as being what college sports should really be all about.
Yeah, spot on. I see why someone would snub their noses at pay for play, and prop themselves on a high horse. With no boundaries nothing is illegal (if you have the right lawyers and agreements), but that doesn’t mean it isn’t dirty. It is, it’s now a race to Calapari programs.
It's the exact hill Painter approached and the hill they are going to die on. They'll one day establish a collective, and believe they are building one right now, but for a school with such a small fan base, they're years behind. Painter's thoughts on NIL less than 3 months ago, just after they lost out on Pack:
What I don’t get (and maybe it’s due to not being a native Hoosier and being unaware of what factors in here) is how *any* Big Ten school can have a “small” fan base (outside of Northwestern). It isn’t as if PU doesn’t have a massive enrollment, so they should at least have a large alumni base, I would think.
95% of Purdue fans are Purdue Alums (they constantly brag about this). IU has a very large portion of the fanbase (guessing the majority) that never attended IU. Purdue fans refer to these fans as “Walmart Fans” and for some reason think it’s a bad thing.
Perhaps they just don’t care as much about sports?
I don't think there is any doubt at all about that. Some will completely flame out before ever getting drafted. Same old story, really. Get paid, get lazy.
But *why* is that the case?
You might be thinking too hard. It's actually as simple as PURDUE SUCKS.
I would guess because Purdue has had basically no relevant success in either Football or Basketball while IU has 5 national championships in basketball. The only real way to attract non alums as fans is by having success. Same way Notre Dame has such a massive following while have significantly less enrollment than Purdue.
Life long Hoosier here. To break it down to the lowest common denominator PUke doesn't have a large abundant fan base other than what sits in the seats because without a history of national successes only small amount of alumni are engaged. Much of their support doesn't get beyond verbal. At least as I've always looked at it.
That’s commonly heard over on GBI. Maybe it’s true, but it seems to me that in any large group you’re going to find a lot of variation. You can bet that even at an OSU you’ll find plenty of people who don’t give a rip about football and are actually at the school to get an education.
I dont follow PU at all, and could care less.... But I was so glad about how IU handled this from the jump. I knew this would becomes an arms race, and IU is at the top of the mountain right now.
*Small compared to other Big 10 fanbases, with the exception of Northwestern.
The IU stuff always sells, PU stuff lingers. Lots of it backordered on line these days.
I would only add that IU has less "tech" alumni and are more inclined to be active social families, less rural, successful people with lots of opportunities and disposable income. It is obvious when you live in the state.
This is true. I have lots of friends and relatives(some attended Purdue) who are season ticket holders at IU. I go to IU games with a buddy who went to PUke for civil engineering. He goes to Way more IU games.
your last sentence......LMFAO. Yep, keeps popping back up like a pimple that won't heal.
Timeout. Someone doesn't remember that bass fishing title, do they?
as a bass fisherman myself, I can respect that. Maybe hang a banner in Mackay? Right next to the 1930-whatever year Helms title and the new " #1 for a week in 2021" banner.
Fun fact: the number one ranking was released on Sunday. On Monday, PU lost to Rutgers.
Whoop there it is. Add to that, there is nothing iconic about the town/school/campus, i.e., it lacks anything remotely emblematic of culture apart from livestock (two-legged and four). Has no classic identity like Notre Dame (Luck of the Irish, Catholic and a longtime gridiron juggernaut), no mystique like Bloomington (Performing/Liberal Arts, Mellencamp, Little 500/Breaking Away, AH, exemplary natural environment). West Laffy is a backwater acultural wasteland with no distinguishing/iconic features or legacy that competes with Champaign as the the ugliest/most depressing/lifeless campus in the Big (although I profess to have no experience of Lincoln or Piscataway).
