Brohm leaving Purdue to coach Louisvilee

Better Louisvilee than a jubilee in Galilee, y'see

/ Eric the Half a Bee

Hard to blame him.  Hate that for Purdue, with the exception of that cheap shot on Speight I don't hate Purdue football.  I also think Painter is a good bball coach.  

Send Hart, Moore, Weiss, and Harbaugh to visit Rueben Owens asap.

I guess the alma mater holds a lot of weight, because he is leaving a better situation than what he is going to. 

However, Purdue may have reached their peak while Louisville with Brohm has no reason not to be a top-3 ACC team in no time 

I think this was going to happen anyway in a year or two. L'ville wasn't pleased with some of Scott Satterfield's antics and he sat on a warm seat headed in to 2023. Either way, thank you Cincinnati for passing on Jesse Minter.

Good for him. Glad he’s now Clemson’s problem to figure out. 

This is interesting.

He turned down Louisville before. 

I suppose you can say that things are a bit different now: He has produced some good results at Purdue, but it's hard to see Purdue getting markedly *better* than what they are in the B1G. It's still Purdue, and you've got blue bloods in the east, and now USC is coming along and Luke Fickell and Matt Rhule are putting on red windbreakers. 

But, still, it's not like Purdue was ready to be the next playoff regular before. Why the change?

My best guess: He turned down Louisville before because he had only recently taken the Purdue job. And it's not right to just leave them hanging.

Which is to say, maybe he made the decision before out of integrity. And if so, that speaks incredibly highly of him. A guy who wanted to do things the right way, built Purdue into a better program than when he came, and now he's heading home. Where, as others have observed, there's no reason Louisville can't be a top-3 program in a weaker conference and compete for a playoff berth.

I'd love it if he really did weigh his decisions in part on what is the right thing to do. I want to believe. 

Karlaftis, come on down?  

This year was the ceiling for Purdue football. The B1G is gonna be crazy top heavy in the coming years. Once divisions (if) are eliminated it’s gonna be impossible for some teams to make the championship game. 

This is a bummer. I like Purdue and thought Brohm was a good fit there. Hopefully the Boilers can find a replacement who will keep them interesting and fun. 

Yippee ki yay!

Bummer for the Boilers

Honestly surprised they didn't look at Sherrone moore who went there as a student. Was a bit worried about Louisville and Moore, but looks like that is squared away for several years. Wonder if this is where Leonard ends up after Wisconsin?

I'll admit that I was wrong yesterday when I posted that I didn't believe there was much to the rumor that Brohm would go to Louisville. My speculation was off base in one way or another. 

Sucks for Purdue, he seemed like a good fit and was about as successful there as they could expect. I thought that winning the division this year and incoming conference TV money would be enough for him to stay rather than taking a a mid-level ACC job. 

Has there been a Big Ten coach leave for another job since Gary Andersen (and before him, Bert Bielema) getting fed up with Wisconsin and bolting? Seems rare for a B1G school to lose a coach to another conference - most either stay forever (Ferentz, Fitzgerald) or get fired/retired.

He probably realizes  he will never beat the east division champion. He's bowing out of the B1G since he could not turn Purdue around into a semi elite team.

Jeff left Purdue way better off than he found it. Funny thing, as someone mentioned in this thread, none other than Josh Gattis could have been a front-runner for this job if he had stayed and we scored ~40 points per game like we did under the new guys.

I wonder if Rolovich, the Wazzu guy that got fired for not getting covid vaccine, is going to get a spot somewhere - probably not here, but if Purdue hires a current HC, Nick may get a HC job.

The Purdue AD had to be ready for this - as much as Warde needed to be ready if JB were going to the NBA - lots of decent options out there. Even the guy from WKU (where Brohm came from) could be in the running. 

Am I taking crazy pills or did they not literally have this conversation during the game where Brohm had talked about turning down the previous offer to go back to his Alma mater and he reaffirmed that “he’s a boilermaker full stop”?

I'd love for Leonhard to go to Purdue now.