How has Odom failed? For going .500 at Mizzou at the age of 40 while fighting NCAA sanctions inherited from their best coach ever? Including a 4-8 rebuilding season. Or winning at levels never seen at UNLV, where he hired a young OC, furthering his track record of hiring good young coordinators?
Odom was terminated from Mizzou, his only P4 head coaching job: he was below .500 in the SEC. You want a coach that has failed rather than succeeded at the P4 level? Odom needed to bring Marion with him, and he didn't. Walters is available, though. If Odom whiffs on the OC, then how is that any different from Walters?
Because there were options available that were proven winners and PU chose someone who fired up, no one. That's how. You can argue nonsense all you want but it's never a good idea to hire a coach who was previously fired for being below mediocre. I personally, LOVE this hire for Purdue.
Odom has already proven to be a better HC at the P5 level. But you are correct. Coaches typically don’t grow over their careers. As a was a .500 coach through his first four years at P5. Sark hadn’t had a 10 win season before Texas. Dykes didn’t make the natty at TCU. Wait. Coaches do get better with experience.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Purdue’s OC hire isn’t young nor did he call plays at his previous stop. I thought I read where Odom fired him once before at Missouri where they previously worked together.
He’s had one losing season in 6 years. How’s this below mediocre? Who were the better, proven winner options you are referencing?
Haven’t read up on him that much tbh. Quick research says he wasn’t a part of Odoms staff as a HC. Odom hired Heupal as OC for his first staff.
They had to have the money to fire your coach even if they needed to go beg for it.
Henson was the OC at Mizzou from 2013 to 2015. Odom went in a different direction for OC when he started at Mizzou in 2016, lol
Talent wasn’t bad. Coaching was horrible. I’ll stand by that.
Ya. He hired a guy named Josh Heupal. Turned out to be a pretty good offensive mind. Idk how that’s a knock on Henson present day. It was 8 years ago.
Lol What a stat to use. He was 13-19 in conference at Mizzou. Is that the conference record you're looking for? He was .500 overall at Mizzou. Is that what you're looking for? He is 0-3 in bowl games. Is that what you're looking for? Don't pretend this was a good hire. Purdue could've done so much better....if they wanted to.
Cignetti had ZERO experience at a P4 conference as a head coach and has never beaten a ranked opponent, but it seems to have been a good hire, no? Hiring coaches is always a risk. What was Saban's record at MSU? Good but not earth shattering. He seems to have done pretty well at Alabama.
Jason Candle won 7 games this year and has been so good everyone has been trying to hire him….
There is a lot of activity on that board over there and not just four people and you know it.
Lmao! Who said anything about being a P4 coach. The example I gave was Jason Candle who has never been a P4 coach. Lol.
Odom was an alum at MO and was fired after just three years. Seems to think what else was going on ? Plus he is a defensive coach. We still do not know what really happened with the Sulka situation. We don't really know how things will turn out but like I've said whoever they hired your folks would say it was a solid hire regardless.
Listen, let's keep this. No need to defend yourself now. Let's just wait and see what excuses you have after I'm right.
I don’t. Left the rivals board. It’s minimal activity compared to the on3 board.
Odom got 4 years. Went 4-8, 7-6, 8-4, 6-6. While the program was under sanctions from the previous coach, which is their HOF coach. So he had sanctions and had to follow big shoes at the age of 40.
13-19 in the SEC, which is the exact same BT record of Danny Hope. It is great watching you gush over Odom the way you gushed over Walters.
I’m not really gushing. Just stating facts. Idk if it will work out not. 19-8 is pretty good though. 19 is the same number of wins curt had in his two years before iu.
If that's true your saying Odom couldn't control his people. Also the sanctions were for one year. 4 schollies gone.
Think you have another Cignetti, huh? PU is trying so hard to copy Cignetti. In one year, Cignetti has done things PU hasn't been able to do their entire history.
Never said that. Zero evidence they are copying iu. They hired a coach from a smaller school. That’s not something iu did that was unprecedented. But no, I don’t think Purdue has another cignetti. They have a guy that has beaten a top 25 team, not claims to have beaten a top 25 team.
Nah, Purdue sux bud. Cignetti has had more playoff games than Purdue...heck, the entire B1G West division, combined. You guys are in the minor leagues. Lol
I thought what happened in the 50's was "dusty". The only dust that matters is that in which Cig has left PU. The series has been a lot more competitive as of late, and you just got smoked 66-0 and fired your coach. Good luck with your P4 retread, and let me know when PU wins 11 games or reaches the college playoffs.
Missouri has gotten significantly better under Drinkwitz after firing Odom. That’s fairly telling.
IU had over 4 times the amount of yards vs ND than Purdue did vs IU. 😳 Yikes.
The coaches before and after Odom at Mizzou have done better: not good.
I don't need to. You see, Purdue keeps doing that for us.
Odd, considering my post was a bit of a compliment and far less pejorative than others around it.
