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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Yeah, but their football program isn't 'big.' I never really cared about a school's student population when talking about football. Because it's not important to any football discussion. It's always been about how big their program is, for me. Do they "compete" against the best programs. And by compete, i mean more than just take the field. Like have a legit chance to win most Saturdays. Which they don't.
Purdue doesn't fall into that category, at least recently. They've been a middling program No one is going to argue that Purdue is probably going to even cover the spread vs. OSU, Michigan, PS, or most of the other teams in the Big 10.
In that respect, a football-only perspective, they're not a big program.
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They're not Arkansas State, man. That's a Power 5 school that's produced quality players like Ryan Kerrigan, Cliff Avril, Ja'Whuan Bentley, Mike Neal and Ricardo Allen over the last decade. In fact they've been known as one of the better DL schools this century. They went 9-4 last season and beat Tennessee in their bowl game.
No, they aren't Alabama. But they're not some pisswater school where guys don't get coached up. Purdue is a quality program with a good coach. I don't see citing Purdue as some sort of handicap as being a useful exercise here.
I'd probably pull the ejection handle on this one, but your mileage may vary...