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You should have been in the stadium. Everyone around me was asking the same questions. Sorry to say, we got Roushared again tonight folks. ND cleaned our clock on both offense and defense. AND, we got OUT COACHED BADLY. We were clueless on what they were going to do on offense and they completely owned what we were trying on our offense.
Yea, the empty backfield stuff was head scratchingly bad coaching...
Plus on top of that, our guys weren't playing very well at all. I knew after the first possession of the 2nd half that we weren't winning this game.

EL is ghost town

Seriously? No activity going on despite the loss (in my room right now)? Oh well...

Whatever Hope did in the offseason apparently worked. Purdue's D looks leaps and bounds better and the offense is humming along despite losing Marve. Hell, they hung 54 points on EMU (yes I know it is only EMU) today when TerBush nearly didn't play due to illness.

More importantly, they have stayed relatively injury free thus far and have a lot of team speed.

It's time to stop looking at the name and look at the team. Purdue is a good team and a threat to win the B1G this year.

Burkland and McDonald were the big goats on the OL. terrible.

I think Arnett was the "target" on that bizarre long pass down the right sideline that Maxwell hesitated on a couple of times before chucking it way out of bounds - just as Arnett was running free down the sideline.

I thought we got good pressure on Golson, but he was quick in evading it when it came and made quite a few plays on the run. Kid has a ridiculous arm...I was incredibly impressed with him.

At least we finally got a decent look at Calhoun - he looked very good. And he had more of an impact in the limited action he saw tonight than Gholston has in the three games combined. Something's not right with Will...He's just seems out of position too often. It's hard to pinpoint though, and may just be a matter of double teams. He also seems to get held a lot, but I don't think he's gotten a single call this year. On the 2nd td he was right there to tackle Golson but was blatantly held by #70 (i think that was the guy), which allowed Golson to get around the corner. as easy a call any ref will ever have, but nothing. He's clearly frustrated on a lot of plays and at the whistle is often looking around with his arm up in "WTF?!??!" mode. He's got to shake that off and get back to work...and maybe start doing a better job of selling the holds. I have to wonder if the Michigan game has affected how refs look at him....which is total bullshit, but entirely possible.

He's a tough guy behind his computer screen.