Wisconsin 62, Purdue 17: When Will The Embarrassment End?

Almost just as bad as the defense. They just got manhandle by the Wisky D-Line. Whoever was at QB was scrambling for their lives, no run blocking, no protection.

Now, where credit is due – Mostert. He was pretty much the only offsense.

til the real season.

We can have so much as a football program. I know-I’ve seen it. What we have now is just depressing. I can’t believe my alma mater would put such a thing on the field to compete.
I feel for our players. They deserve better.

What do we do? Honestly, what can all of us do, REALLY, to make it clear to the AD and University that we have had enough?

No smart ass bullshit either. This needs fixed NOW. How do we get loud enough to tell them we can’t take anymore and demand change???? I’m at a loss here.

This is NOT OK

is that we swept Northwestern in volleyball tonight! I’m embarrassed by our football program right now, but thankful we have several other teams (basketball and volleyball) that are still capable of putting Purdue’s name out there in a positive manner.

Morgan Burke could give a shit about the folks on this blog or 80% of the people in that stands. This clown split up one of the best student sections for bball in the country.

Occupy Morgan Burke’s office.

Look: Wisky lost 2 games on last second plays. He1L-to-the-yes we’re they gonna come in PO’d to the max. Their front-lines out-muscle us by ~10 – 20 lbs as an average; and honestly, wasn’t the only thing we out ranked them in is in punting?

During the 1st quarter, I held out a glimmer of hope, but — honestly for Frak’s sake people, what less-than-1% thought we would walk out of Camp Randall with a win? Even if we had had Rob Henry (remember him?) available it would have been a challenge.

@cjboiler — I’m not sold on Marve. CTB has issues, but so does Marve. Marve has yet to prove to me that he is not “Jeff George, mach 2.” On TV, Marve has not impressed me, yet. Ever.

IMHO — Make it to a bowl, DH is safe for a year or 2. If not, I’ll jump on the “FIRE-ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE” bandwagon.

Is horrible. He had the worst record In fbs as a head coach at utep. Utep fires him then purdue hires him everyone down here thinks the AD is a joke with our coach hires.

Even if hope is fired we will just hire some other loser from fcs. No way we spend cheese on lynch or sumlin. No way MB is like Scrooge McBoiler

I become more and more convinced that if we had to make one change—and one change only—to the coaching staff, it’d have to be Gary Nord. Sure, our defense looked pretty pathetic yesterday, but let’s be real here – Wisconsin had the ball 62% of the time yesterday. Our offense couldn’t stay on the field long enough for the defense to get any reasonable amount of rest. The game was close at the end of the first quarter because the offense was actually moving the ball and the defense could at least look respectable. But after that both sides of the ball just looked like they gave up.

I’m not so sure Coach Hope is the piece that needs to be changed after this season. Gary Nord is at the top of my cut list. My friend Jeremy put it best, I think – “It’s almost as if he’s trying to outsmart himself”. His play calling is ridiculous, right down to the fundamentals of whether to choose to run or pass on each play. I’d do the opposite of what he picks about 80% of the time. I know Hope isn’t perfect either, and I could be wrong, of course, but for the time being, I’m convinced that Nord is the weakest link in this coaching staff.

I’d say that 95% of Wisconsin fans were pretty respectful to us and the Boilermaker Special (BMS), and were able to be confident in their impending win without coming off as pretentious or annoying. The other 5% was a completely different animal, but I will say that they did not exceed my expectations of immaturity or vulgarity. However, one guy did try to knock the headband off my wife as he passed her on the street, which I unfortunately didn’t know about until after the guy had disappeared into the crowd. It’s probably just as well though, because I probably would have reacted poorly and done something I wasn’t proud of if I had seen it happen.

I’m not sure what’s to blame, but the stadium itself was really, really unimpressive. For a place that seats nearly 81,000 fans I was expecting it to be much more raucous than it was. Maybe Camp Randall just has the worst acoustics on earth, or maybe the crowd was just really docile because of the cupcake opponent they were hosting, but I was part of the BMS crew that stayed outside for the first half for train security, and we started listening to the radio feed late because we could never tell when the game started. Even when Wisconsin scored, we couldn’t hear anything from the stadium to indicate that anyone was alive inside. I’ve been to IU’s Memorial Stadium before with the train and they had us park close to a mile from the stadium, and even with their pathetic attendance (pretty much like ours), we could tell when something exciting happened without the help of the radio. At Wisconsin, we were parked literally 50 feet from the stadium, and we couldn’t hear a chirp from the crowd. Maybe CR is just an acoustical nightmare, but I was really unimpressed by how loud it got even when I went in for the second half.

Someone from our first half crew told me that they announced over the PA that if the student section didn’t do their famous “E-S-F-U” cheer, as they called it, before the 1st quarter was over, they would give away free tickets to two random students to their bowl game. The student section apparently began it immediately afterward. There’s a pretty amusing debate on it by a couple of current students on the cheer over at the Badger Herald, if you’d like to read more about it. We had a discussion on how it’s funny that they do it because they don’t yell it at the other team… they yell it was a “call/answer” to the opposite sides of the student section. So, while I don’t support vulgar cheers, I think it’s pretty funny that they don’t even direct this one at their opponents.

“Jump around” is supposed to be a really cool tradition akin to our “Shout” routine, which is why I opted to be part of the crew that got to see the second half, but they didn’t do anything to lead into it at all. The music just started playing, and we were on the opposite side of the stadium from the speakers, so it was really pretty disappointing. I was expecting a much cooler atmosphere. Admittedly, it looked like the student section was really enjoying it, so it’s probably a lot more electric over on that side of the stadium, which is also the side with the PA speakers. The stands were still full at that point too – apparently everyone else wanted to at least stick around for that as well. About 60% of the crowd was gone by the time the 4th quarter was halfway over though, so we got to move down for some real close seats to see the end of the game.

Overall, I thought the Wisconsin fans were gracious victors. Most of the rude fans popped up either before the game or during the first parts of the game. This is one thing that really sets them apart for me from my experience with Michigan and Ohio State fans. Last year, after Purdue crapped the bed in basketball at O$U, someone told a student on the trip with us in the Paint Crew that he might as well go hang himself because we were so bad. Michigan fans last week in Ann Arbor were petty immature with some comments after the game, but nothing quite as bad as insinuating that anyone should kill themselves because of it. So, good job Wisconsin – you at least know how to win and do it with some class.