I would agree with you there. People with ties to IU in leadership positions are no good if they aren't competent, and we shouldn't be supporting nepotism over performance.
Tough to say it, but have to tip hat to Purdue
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I would disagree. The op was talking about last night's game, at least in part. If you want to split hairs, that's your business
I think you’re trolling. What IU is or does right now has nothing to with PU and vice versa. **** them. I’d be all for them making the elite eight and losing in double overtime. If you want to give them a lifetime achievement award for eternal failure that’s your prerogative but I’m not going to participate. The notion in sports that the journey is more important than the destination is bullshit. People remember the champions and don’t give a flying **** who won their conference title, conference tournament, pre-conference tournament, or how many seasons you were ranked number one. If you feel that you should give them flowers for that I have to question your motivation.
Purdue should just be given the championship. They beat mighty Grambling pretty much right on the spread. Like beating the 95 Bulls. Hopefully they at least get to the final 4 because anything less is a huge huge failure. They’ve been #1 off and on for 2 years
So you think it takes a national title for Purdue to get IU’s attention? That seems odd. If three years of #1 ranking, multiple Big Ten Championships and way more victories over us than we them has yet to stir the mindset of those in control, the IU administration is brain dead and a PU natty come their way won’t matter. It will only give the Purdue a greater one-up in recruiting over us than they already have. The Boiler gravy train is steaming downhill and gaining momentum (mass X velocity for you physics nerds). Sadly, Bloomington has become the pigsty of Purdue’s creation and the muck is about to get deeper.
Thankfully, there are a few remaining old timers left trying to keep the rivalry going. “I want Purdue to win it all…for Purdue and for IU”…so THIS is what we’ve become? It makes me wanna wipe my ass with a Tippecanoe Co corn cob just to show I still bleed red!
POTFB, yesterday, today and for a thousand tomorrows when we’ll all have passed away.
They are good but I have tenn beating them. I don't think they are a final four team. I think. Utah state can play them tough tomorrow also
Who is this and what have you done with aajohn2000?
I almost hope they do win it all so they'll lose their red-headed step child mentality.
Nah, who am I kidding......
Not trolling, but certainly walking that line. Look, I hope they lose. But if they win, so be it. The consolation prize is the B1G gets the schtick off its back and the B1G would win the football and basketball national titles in the same year. Good for the conference which by proxy is good for IU. But I have had my morning coffee, did a 5K run today and after my fasting ended at noon, got some food in me. Thinking much clearer now. **ck Purdue and hot damn I hope they lose and don’t even make the FF.
I've grown up in Purdue country and am very familiar with PU fans. "Weird" is putting it mildly. They have a massive inferiority complex and can't enjoy their own success because they'll never - in their lifetimes - achieve the national success IU has in the past.
It's the cause of their obsession with IU, even when they're playing other teams.
Don't worry - it'll pass. Once some PU fans starts spouting off, you'll have your fill of it and hope they choke, per normal.
I never hear from my wife's cousin until they beat IU. Never heard from him last year, of course. Getting his text reminds me why I can't stand them.
Yea, grow up and live in a PU area and I think it gives you a WHOLE different perspective!
I left my old company 18 months ago. While at the previous company, I had a guy who was a Purdue grad. Each time IU and PU would play, he’d reach out. And most of the time, PU had beat our ass again. MY usual response would be “hang the banner. Congrats, you won your nat’l championship”. And that was about it. We never hung out nor even worked in the same departments, but paths would cross every once in awhile due to large cross functional team meetings. And this, stayed connected in that way.
About a month ago or 17 months after leaving the company and my association with him, he finds me on LinkedIn to take a jab following the IU loss to Nebraska. We are not even connected, he sent me an invite to connect and attached a note to it about “Not believing IU cannot recruit shooters”. The obsession with IU is real. I do believe it’s an inferiority complex. Whatever it is, it falls into the weird / borderline creepy category. They have issues.
I live in NC but do run into PU alumni from time to time. Their disdain for IU is like a disease. It’s an obsession.
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I have lurked here for a while. I recall your posts that said Edey would never sniff the NBA and that he would never be drafted. He appears in the lottery in many mock drafts at this time. It seems that those posts of yours have been incorrect based on this post. Any other predictions that you would like to modify now?
Lottery?!? LOL. Ware is higher than Edey in every one I've seen. I see him as a second round pick. The NBA is not for slow bigs that play 5 ft from the basket: good luck with that. They have defensive 3 seconds: Edey will actually have to guard somebody.
I barely watch Edey because I don’t care about PU, but I am curious how he manages in an NBA or G League game. He’s going to be a literal glacier out there on D.
Edey is a great college player.
He won’t get drafted in the first round.
He likely plays fewer than 2 season in the NbA as an end of bench player. He cannot defend at the next level. He’s a poor man’s Boban
His footwork under the rim has improved dramatically which I think allows him to survive in the G league for a a season or three then off the Eastern Europe. Once he stops getting the ridiculous whistle he gets in college it will be a lot tougher for him
I work with a ton of PU fans. They don’t have an inferiority complex at all. They view it as a rivalry that they dominate. Most don’t remember IU being good because they are in their 30’s and early 40’s.
Woody is 3-3 against PU. Archie was awful. Crean didn't do great against PU. Other than that, I would disagree. IU needs to get their s*** together, no doubt. Our pain is self chosen.
He came back to the minor leagues for a reason instead of moving up with the big boys.
Truer words never spoken. I had friends root for the Russians in those late 80s exhibition games. They rooted for the Fn Soviets. Weird. That’s how much they hated RMK.
Still blows my mind we can't make a good hire in the last 23 years.
Just what 16 seed has IU played lately? Or better yet, what tournament you all playing in?
Jimbo's ignorance is only exceeded by his hate for all things Purdue. His Edey voodoo doll has a 1000 pins in it. Kinda' fun watching him wallow in his hate. LOL
1st amendment has absolutely nothing to do with this.
Dead serious dude. They do t look at IU as even a threat anymore
Their insecurities are front and center. Just watch them on these boards
BS you guys are more concerned about us than your own team (who happens to be good right now)
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