No longer will having attending a night game at Purdue put you in rare company. Ross-Ade will have lights by the start of the 2017 season.
Handsome Hour #98: Hazell's Last Stand at Purdue...Maybe?
J Money, Boilerdowd, and Aneesh reconvene to talk about Commodore Hazell (impressively) not losing the locker room last week, the meaningfulness of close wins versus bad teams, Darrell Hazell's heel click, projecting Purdue's remaining wins, piling up injuries on an already-thin roster, whether Purdue and Illinois would agree to play each other nine times during the Big Ten slate, and PJ Fleck's lunacy winning us over. All that, plus Dowd's tragic post-unicycling accident eulogy, Aneesh/Dowd's pledge to record the next podcast naked (and Hazell coaching the Northwestern game in only a vest and hat) if Purdue wins 3 of the next 4 games.
VB Falls At Iowa and Nebraska
Boiler volleyball had a rough road trip last week, dropping a five-set match to Iowa and falling in straight sets to Nebraska in their first road matches of the conference season. AVCA #22 and Massey #19 Purdue returns home to face Penn State and Rutgers Friday and Saturday.
Make It Happen, Coach Haze
Even now, it's still tough for me to root against Coach Haze.
Boilers Take the Cannon Back Home
Coach Haze ices Illinois while leading his Boilers to a somewhat improbably victory.
Can’t Find a Better Man So Hazell Is Still Here – The Illinois Predicto
This week’s exercise instead of really, seriously analyzing this dog of a football game is for each of the BS team to reveal their five favorite songs…. Either all-time or current, if you’re a wimp like Aneesh who is worried that he’ll be made fun of for putting down a Nickelback song. Join us...and share your thought.
Purdue Basketball 2017 Recruiting: WTF, man?
Time to distract everyone from the abysmal horror that is our football team, and talk basketball.
VB Goes 0-2 Against New #1 And #2
Purdue volleyball faced their toughest back-to-back home opponents in program history as they welcomed #3 Wisconsin and #2 Minnesota to Holloway. The Boilers were unable to come away with a win, falling to Wisconsin in five sets and Minnesota in three, falling to 17th in the AVCA coaches poll and 15th in Massey.
At This Point, It’s Just A Matter Of Time
At this point, the dismissal of Darrell Hazell feels like it must just be a matter of time. Things cannot continue to go on like this, even at a place as football tone deaf as Purdue.
We Gave Up The Ship: Commodore Hazell's Postgame Letter
Commodore Hazell sunk the ship. We found the letter he sent home, to his dearest Martha.
Ghosts of Champs Sports Bowls Past – The Maryland Predicto
The Boilers roll into College Park for their first Big Ten meeting with Maryland. We also learn the sports movie preferences of the BS guys. It's a fun time here on the Predicto.
VB Sweeps Indiana, Keeps Monon Spppppppppike In West Lafayette
For the ninth straight season, the Monon Spike resides in West Lafayette, as the then-10th-ranked Boilers swept Indiana, 25-15, 25-17, 25-18, in front of a crowd of 8,240. Purdue hit .517 in the match, led by redshirt senior MB Faye Adelaja, whose .889 raised her attack percentage to .474, good for second in the nation.
Boilers Struggle Past Wolf Pack, Lurch Toward Conference Play
Purdue football returned to action Saturday, recovering from a poor first half to hold off Nevada, 24-14. David Blough was 21 for 30 for 300 yards and 2 TDs, including a 51-yarder to Brycen Hopkins for the clinching TD, and Markell Jones carried 24 times for 124 yards and the go-ahead TD in the third quarter.
VB Comes Out Flat, Falls to Illini 3-2
Purdue volleyball opened conference play by running into an orange and blue Illini wall, dropping their Big Tenteen opener 3-2 to Illinois Wednesday night. The Boilers will try to recover in the annual Monon Spike match against Indiana Saturday in Mackey Arena.
New Shooter, Comin’ Out! The Nevada Predicto
Each BS'er was given a 100 word limit on this week's game vs Nevada, but as much as they wanted to describe their perfect gameday snacking preferences. Surely, that's more interesting to our readers than breaking down this matchup. Also, the photo posted above was chosen purely for the value of showing what a kid from Brian Bosworth and Martina Navratilova would look like.
Predicto Reviso?
With three weeks of the college football season in the books, we know a lot more about Purdue's opponents and a lot more about our Boilers. So do we think any differently about the outlook for the season at this point? Find out...NOW!
Coach Hazell Calls a Team Meeting
Coach Hazell called the players together this week to discuss what he considers among the most important focal points for Saturday's game vs Nevada.
VB Rocks #4 Jayhawks, Captures Stacey Clark Classic Title
Purdue volleyball returned to Holloway last weekend, thumping #4 Kansas 3-1 en route to a 3-0 sweep in the inaugural Stacey Clark Classic. The Boilers moved to 10-1 overall and are now #10 in the latest AVCA coaches' poll.
Handsome Hour #97: Same Old Purdue Football, plus Potential Hazell Successors
The Handsome Hour gets together to talk about what changed after Purdue's Cincinnati loss, Darrell Hazell's doomed future in West Lafayette, where Purdue football went wrong, and sort through a list of around 40 potential candidates for Purdue's next head coach. All that, plus revisiting the Danny Hope 2007 decision, weighing an older established candidate against a younger unproven candidate, and BoilerDowd's menagerie of coaching impressions.
VB Stuns Stanford, Tops Cal Poly to Win Stanford Invitational
Purdue volleyball lost a tough opening set at Stanford 33-31, but stormed back from an 0-2 deficit to knock off the #9 Cardinal 3-2; they also beat Cal Poly to take the Stanford Invitational, move up six spots to #14, and run their record to 7-1.