Iowa 31, Purdue 21: Bucket Or Bust Now

Had to get everyone on the same page on how to blow a critical play.

By far a better use of my 4 hours than Hope’s evil schenanigans

Thats why we see 2 QBs, crazy trick plays that blow up, timeouts at the wrong time – they’re so afraid of making a mistake that they end up making tons of them. They completely overthink everything.

While I didn’t like the call at the end of the game, I can somewhat understand why it was made. I think the officials made the call because they were following the absolute letter of the pylon rule. Did Marve fumble the ball? Yes. Did that ball eventually hit the pylon? Yes. However, the actual pylon had been significantly moved from its original position by the time the ball made contact with the pylon. Marve’s hand actually pushed the pylon toward the sideline. When the ball hit the pylon, the pylon was angled toward the left sideline away from the end zone. As far as I can tell, the NCAA rulebook doesn’t have any clauses that rule out the significance of the pylon if it has been moved. In my admittedly biased opinion (since I’m a Purdue fan), I think the refs should have made a judgment call to overlook the ball-pylon contact since the pylon had clearly been moved from its original position. Since there was no indisputable video evidence to show that the fumbled ball crossed the plane of the endzone and exited the endzone out of bounds, the correct call would have been to declare Marve out-of-bounds just before the goal line.

is that his drives tend to end in spectacular fashion, one way or another. Terbush, he’ll give you one good drive to start the game (except the ND game), an then come up with a bunch of 3-and-outs the rest of the game (and the the 3rd Qtr when he plays). Mavre, so many times he ends his series either with an INT (tip balls, also one at PSU that deny us a FG, or the dumb ones against OSU), or it is sth great (TDs). With him, you have to take both the good and the bad. I still think he is overall more good than bad. He is the football version of GDB (or I guess in his case, GDM).

helps our chances though. Before this weekend, I would have thought that both the Big 12 and ACC had a good shot at getting two teams to BCS bowls but not after these losses. This then opens up the spot of a second Big Ten team getting into an at-large BCS bowl (probably Michigan, assuming they can beat tOSU), which in turn opens up an additional spot in Big Ten bowl games, thus increasing our chances of getting one (assuming we can beat IU, of course).

He has never even won three games in a row!!!

If it’s money generated from games – he should already see the writing on the wall. You have to believe the cost of football games is somewhat fixed, so the revenue generated with this drop off in attendance must be significantly reduced from the good years

PainterGate was a situation of having a very successful coach (and cash cow for the dept.) possibly walk out the door because someone else made a great offer and he wanted to see the university take care of himself and his staff. IF Painter had left, it would’ve been a huge black eye to the department and fans would’ve had an absolute riot.

New Purdue Pete was just a horrible decision to try and force a change to one of the most recognizable symbols of the university without giving the larger fan community any input. The PR was terrible and the department wisely realized it wasn’t a battle worth fighting and relented.

Hope was a cheap and easy hire. How long can the dept protect him before they realize he’s costing them money, not saving it?

The first INT was a tipped pass, the sack/fumble was Bolden’s fault, and the lost fumble in the endzone that resulted in the touchback is a call that I don’t agree with (and many people probably agree also).

This is what I can’t stand about stats, Marve played a nice game. If Robert Marve threw 5INTS in one game, and ALL of them were tipped passes or perhaps a hail mary pass to the endzone…..critics would point out, how horrible he was because he threw 5 picks. Not to mention that he almost got drilled on the 2nd pick he threw in today’s game.

 If TerBush threw the ball downfield, don’t you think he would have his fair share of interceptions also? When were down to what…..4th and 13? We had to insert Marve in the game, because TerBush is unlikely to make a successful conversion. If Marve can do that, my question is, why isn’t he playing the entire game. How do we know, Marve can’t lead us to a game opening TD drive. If he was asked to execute the same bubble screens that TerBush does, wouldn’t he have the same success? But, no the coaching staff likes to set up him for failure….for example bringing him in the game for the 4th and 13 play. Asking him to throw downfield, while he can’t get a consistent rhythm going. You’re only looking into the stats and not the play that is going on in the field.

With the except of the ND game, Terbush usually does well on the first series. He also does well in the 4th qtr against backups when our team got blown out, so his numbers got padded.

Mavre never seems to be given much chance of success. He usually comes in and do hand-offs. Sure, he has some dumb plays (e.g. the INT against OSU), but two of his INTs that I can recall are tip balls and not really his fault, and the pylon fumble yesterday was unfortunate but he was running for his dear life and really give us a chance to score (it could easily have gone the other way and then Mavre would have been the hero). Bottom line is, Mavre is bigger risk, bigger reward. When we play as favorites, yes, you want to go with the steady hand b/c you are expected to win. But when we play as underdogs (which for most of the season we are after Mavre came back from injury), we need the spark that Mavre brings to give us a chance for an upset.

You are punishing a guy who takes risk to give us a chance to win while preferring a guy who plays it safe and keep us in mediocrity. Again, Mavre did have some poor decisions, but he undoubtedly has the stronger arm, and has a higher ceiling between the two.

USC is even on probation and really has nothing to play for yet they got way better as the season went on and would be playing in the Pac 12 championship if it weren’t for probation .

I guess coach Hope could consider saying we went from losing to Rice to beating Ohio State and consider that improvement. However, if our goal is to make our expectations so low where any win is considered improvement, then I don’t really think improvement is meaningful. It would be like a student going from 5% on the first test of the semester to 15% on the final exam. You’re still failing miserably regardless of whether or not you call it improvement. If Ohio State loses to Michigan, we won’t have any victories against a team that has a winning conference record in the Big Ten.