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Get that kid a Scholarship!

Danny Hope should put a scholarship offer in the mail today. Is there any doubt were this kid is going to school?

2027 Purdue Starting QB Braylen Brees

2028 Purdue Starting QB Braylen Brees

Great Day To Be A Boilermaker

Just a fantastic article from the Wall Street Journal. Check it out here.

Brad Miller’s Advice for Patrick Bade

Patrick Bade is addicted to bad basketball.  Much like an alcoholic needs a 12 step guide to recovery, so too does Freshman Patrick Bade.  I’Cornrowsm offering myself, former Purdue great, Brad Miller as your sponsor.  Here are my 12 steps:

1.  APPEARANCE IS KEY – You look like an 8 year old boy who cries to his mom after games.  Hard to believe but I once had a baby face, then I grew up. I got cornrows and I started drinking moonshine.  Stop drinking O’Douls, Bade.  If you can, grow a handlebar moustache.

2.  FOUL HARDER – I was going to tell you to stop fouling so much, but I realize that is unrealistic for you.  When I foul, I picture Rajon Rando bleeding on the floor, and then I make it happen.  You picture changing the diapers on your favorite Cabbage Patch Kid, and then you wet yourself.  Hurt the guy.

3. GO TO EUROPE – I was undrafted and went to Europe to play basketball. Do NOT go there to play basketball, go there to drink and get some European strange, you’ll grow up fast

Brad Miller4. PUNT BABIES – It’s funny to watch them spin end over end in the air.

5. IGNORE BOBBY BUCKETS – Although he is a graduate assistant, he is short and short people CANNOT be trusted.

6. BUY BLING – It is shiney and you like shiney things.

7. CHANGE YOUR LAST NAME-  It sucks and defies all english logic for pronunciation.  It is also so close to the word ‘Bad’ that it reminds people of how terrible you are.

8. TAKE VIAGRA- It will be funny when people are trying to post you up and you poke them with your boner.  I did this to Shaq once.  He was pissed, but since I’m a badass, he couldn’t do anything.

9. GROW- If you are going to lack the skill that you do, at least get taller.  You aren’t tall enough to be this bad.

10. MAKE UP A BADASS NICKNAME- I will give you a few ideas: Boss, Tank, Esteban, The Body Guard, Kevin Costner.  Literally anything that isn’t Patrick Bade.

If steps 1 through 10 do not work, you have to resort to these last 2 steps:

11. TRANSFER – We don’t want you as a Boilermaker

12. HANG OUT WITH GILBERT ARENAS- Your life expectancy will drastically drop.

Yours Truly,

Brad ‘Beefcake’ Miller

Purdue Varsity Hockey???

Purdue On-Campus Varsity Hockey! – Could This Dream Ever Be a Reality?

Imagine…7-10K rabid boilermakers in attendance for a Friday night of fan frenzy in February, in the renovated Lambert Fieldhouse, your home for Purdue Men’s Hockey.

As a Purdue undergrad, I remember the winter months being a real bore outside of Men’s Basketball. Most Friday nights were spent with a case of natty light or at Harry’s, while my classmates from Indiana decided to go home on Friday nights (never understood this). How great would it have been if I had a hockey game to go to on a Friday night? After hangover hell in your 8 am Lab in Knoy, you head over to Harry’s for a couple afternoon (Hair of the dog) beers. Come 6 pm, you are feeling like a champ again…just in time to take in some up close Big Ten Hockey at Lambert Field House.

What would have to happen to make this Boilermaker’s dream a reality?

  1. Chicken and the Egg Concept, how do you renovate and create a brand new hockey facility without a varsity team and how do you start a hockey team without a hockey facility within 100 miles of campus?
    -Money
    -Development Big Ten Conference Hockey that will generate TV cash
    -Potential to be the third highest attended Purdue athletic team
    -Ability to host national/regional tournaments (not only at the collegiate level)
  2. To add an additional Men’s team, you gotta add a Women’s team
    - Potential Women’s teams: Lacrosse, Gymnastics, Field Hockey
    - Or we could just dump Men’s Cross Country, because we all know that’s not a sport anyways
  3. If you renovate Lambert to become the Hockey Arena, where do you relocate Indoor Track and Field, the Kinesiology  Department, etc.
    - Build a new indoor track facility out near the West Athletic Complex: Schwartz Tennis   Center, New GrandPrix Track. I know this seems foolish to have indoor track facilities so far from the outdoor Rankin field facility, but hey this is track and field…they need to run so more. And having an on-campus hockey arena is more desirable than an on-campus track facility

Cons:
-Most people in Indiana have never been to a hockey game outside of Fort Wayne Comets, ND Hockey, and Indy Ice
-Huge risks with the tremendous costs to retrofit and build facilities
-Where do you find the right coach to start a big time college hockey team?

Pros:
-Big Ten Hockey Conference could be formed (Illinois might turn their club team into a varsity team, Penn State is going varsity also)
-Additional BTN TV revenue
-Could host junior/youth hockey tournaments and camps $$
-Development of local youth hockey teams that could easily be converted into season ticket holder families

Boiler up!….Will this ever happen? Probably Not….but it would be awesome

Chicago Purdue Fans: Where are you?

My buddy E.A.(the self proclaimed College Football Expert on this blog) and I were recently at Clybar (http://www.clybar.com/) to watch the Purdue -Illinois hoops game yesterday night, when we noticed something odd.  The place was half empty and there was a group of six to eight Illini fans rocking their gear.  Clybar is the official home of the Purdue Club of Chicago where they host monthly social hours and other Purdue events.  The bar is actually owned by a Purdue alum, who I have yet to meet.  It’s actually cool place with great food located just west of DePaul University campus in the hippity hop area of Lincoln Park.  Did I just say “hippity hop”?

 Anyways, right before tipoff, I’m thinking to myself  “where the heck is everyone?”  The game was a late night start, so there were no excuses for not being able to make it because of work.  Only investment bankers and gas station attendants are working at 8pm on a Tuesday night.  Well we all know that most I-banking happens either in New York or Charlotte, so that basically leaves all of the IU grads pumping the late night gas for taxi cabs.  But c’mon, we have a top 15 ranked basketball team and only twenty dedicated Purdue fans show up to watch a conference game?

I’m willing to bet that there is roughly 1000 Purdue fans that live within 20 minutes of this fine establishment.  I bet more than half of those people were watching the game on the couch, instead of rocking a sweet Purdue shirt in a public place such as Clybar.  Listen folks,  if you want Purdue to get some national respect you need to help out for crying out loud and “rep” your school.  If you are concerned about spending too much money during these tough economic times, well I can tell you that Clybar is always rocking deals during the game.  Plus they had a trivia competition after the game in which E.A. and I dominated up until they started asking questions about cosmetics and other topics that I had no interest in ever remembering.  But I was able to name the three UNLV players from their 1990 championship team who ended up being drafted in the first round(Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon, Greg Anthony)

WHAD UP!

 

Well, I’m going to stop my whining about the poor public support during Tuesday win over Illinois.  But the next time you were thinking about going to get a couple of drinks for a Purdue game in the Chicago area, trying checking out these places:

Clybar (Purdue alumni owned and operated)
2417 N. Clybourn in Chicago   

Smoke Daddy (Purdue alumni owned and operated)
1804 W. Division Street, Chicago – Offering free dessert when you show your Membership or donor card

Bridget McNeill’s Pub (Purdue alumni owned and operated)
420 W. Belmont, Chicago – Offering $2 Miller & Bud products if you are in Purdue gear on game days

Fireplace Inn
1448 N. Wells, Chicago
 
The Toasted Ox
2470 N. Lincoln, Chicago
 
Suburban Locations:
Blackfinn (Now Open)
16 West Jefferson, Naperville

 

BTFU!

A great holiday gift, Join JPC

The holiday season is here and people are in a giving mood right now despite the economy.  Do you really need to buy that extra McChicken sandwich when you already had a double quarter pounder meal with cheese? How about that extra round of lemon drops at the bar right before last call?  Is that really necessary?  No, unless you are douchebag and love lemon drops or you are totally oblivious to the flab that is hanging over your belt.
 
My recommendation to all you Boilermaker fans is to take that extra money and become a member to the John Purdue Club(JPC) or at least make someone else a member during the holidays.  Right now you must be thinking if I work for Morgan Burke?  I wish!  I’m actually stuck in between MSOE and Marquette grads at work who know nothing about sports and one of them has some pretty bad B.O.
 
This year I made it my mission to get get people to join the JPC.  I went as far as making some ridiculous Purdue football wagers to get someone to join the JPC.  I actually bet that Purdue would make a bowl game this year.  Loser has to pay the other person’s JPC membership for a year.  Well we all know what happened there.  Even if I would have won, I was going to use the money to buy my friend a JPC membership.  My buddy EA and I have been in peoples ears all year long about the importance of the JPC.  Some of our friends have become members this year because they have asked for it as a birthday or Christmas presents.  Some just did because they saw the value!
Donating to the JPC is all about the big picture in college athletics.  Athletic programs can’t function with out alumni donation.  You could probably field a team, but it really wouldn’t be very good.  Lets face it, in order to win big, the cash needs to be there.  I’m not talking about giving money to college players.  That’s something that SEC schools and USC like to do in their spare time.
 
Let me ask you this. Who pays Matt Painter’s salary?  The JPC does.
What is going to happen when another school comes knocking on his door with a briefcase full of money?  I know this is his dream job but every man has his price and it is up to all of the Boilermaker faithful that we never get into that situation.  This goes the same for Danny Hope and what he has done in the last year to give promise to the Purdue football program.
 
It’s a simple domino effect.  Top flight coaches win games and also draw big time recruits.  In order to become an elite basketball or football team you need to win games.  You can’t win these games without the best players or coaches.  Sure you will run into your occasional overachiever, but do you really want Purdue to return to mediocrity after 5 years.  Players and coaches come to programs that are committed to winning.  These days its very difficult to win without greenbacks.  Take a look at all of the top flight programs in basketball or football, they all have huge athletic budgets for facilities and coaching salaries.
 
Unfortunately we don’t have our own Phil Knight or T. Boone Pickens that is willing to throw ridiculous amounts of cash into the athletic programs. So we have to figure it out a different way.  My proposition to you is to stop eating McChicken sandwiches and give some money back to Purdue.
Together we can kick the crap out of mediocrity!
 
Enjoy the holidays!
 
Nick H
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