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Purdue-Notre Dame Preview with Jake Dunn (The Purdue Report, 3:54) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, welcome, boy, they're microphones at the Central Indiana Sports Report for a special edition of the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, his preview of Purdue's game Saturday against Notre Dame.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Jake, last week I picked the boiler makers, I could promise you, I'm not going to be doing that this weekend.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: After last week's game, producer Susie asked me who does Purdue play next, and I said no today, and she said, oh, so that's how kind of how the feeling is here heading into that game.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: And number three, no-er-dame travels to Ross H. Stadium to a clock kick on Peacock.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: No-er-dame is three, no, obviously ranked number three in the nation.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue enters one-and-two after two pre-disappointing losses against wig-force and UCLA.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Notre Dame is favoring this one by 27 and half points, and that the over-under is at 58 and a half for this game.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it should be a pretty good weather, it's the plus.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Load a bit 70's in a partly cloudy, but this is the third executive season that these teams have met and as we probably
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: series between these two teams was kind of paused for a little bit.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now it's back on and then I think there's going to be a little bit of a break.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: After some of these scores that have been put up on Purdue, you've got to think.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Is it really worth playing a Notre Dame every year?
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's something that's on the Minnesota chopping block, but something that Barry Odomen and Tim McClaw, and we'll think about here going forward with the importance of playing in a conference like the Big Ten and getting some easier names on the schedule.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: mmm yeah i get it um it's an awfully important game to produce historically uh when they've beaten Notre Dame is when they've had a really good teams and those have been special moments uh unlike winning a game against Akron who whoever they replace him with but
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess you kind of have to, it's kind of a loser mentality to be honest with you, to not schedule a team in the future because you expect to not be as good as them when you make the schedule, which isn't a year or two in advance.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever you say, oh, we're not good enough to play you, you're saying, and a couple of years we're not gonna be good enough to play you.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't like the mentality, but I also get it.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the big tin's gotten way tougher.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: That we've talked about it over and over.
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll talk about it a little more here when we look for a possible win here in the future.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's really tough.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: We can wake out, but the 18 team league.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Very tough schedule every year.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I get it.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: They don't even want to face one of their rivals.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they are going to play the game this Saturday and I'm surprised Jake by the line and the over under, especially considering last year, Notre Dame won by 59 points in the spread this year's 27 and a half and last year's game had 96 points in the over under 57 and a half.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: What have they seen from this Purdue team that
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Vegas thinks they can hold Notre Dame under 50 points.
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: The last two games combined the 667 massacre that was really kind of the beginning of the end of Ryan Walters and then last year the 56 to 30 loss at Notre Dame.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: it's a hundred and twenty two to thirty seven combined.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what Vegas is thinking that I guess it must be that they think that Notre Dame is kind of call off the dogs, sort of speak, and not run up to score, but I think I would certainly think that they kind of pot with on and they've got kind of a point to make with the CFP selection committee.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think certainly it seems like this game might go over that unless
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Somehow this Purdue defense drastically improves over the past seven days.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well Purdue does have a hope and it's that their offense has been pretty good and last year when they went to Notre Dame, they put points on the board and they did it with creativity, they did it with misdirection and it was a really good game plan offensively last year.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they have an outline of how to get that done.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think Purdue is going to score some points.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really do.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to score points against everybody.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're a very good offense.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really like Ryan Brown, the way he's playing.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really like his weapons.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the question is, can Purdue put up a fight for a while, like they did last year, right?
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think, honestly, that's just kind of all you're looking for here.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, you want to try to win, but I think it's a team like Notre Dame, where you just want to look competitive and keep it as close as you can for as long as you can.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see the game showed us that Purdue has a pretty
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: legitimately dangerous passing offense, but also exposed to very major defensive issues.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Wake Forest game showed us that Purdue could compete with fellow power for opponents.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Beyond whether or not Purdue wins or loses this game and partially depending on what the score looks like.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of looking at whether Purdue can compete physically if they can void just getting overwhelmed and the trenches over and over again and
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to see him sustain some drives and force Notre Dame to play all four quarters.
• 5:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And again, that's what kind of happened last year.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were, I wouldn't say necessarily in the game at halftime because you could tell they couldn't stop Notre Dame and really that's what I think we're looking at here.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Purdue might match up fairly well.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Notre Dame defense.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you can't stop UCLA and you can't stop wig-forced.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you're letting UCLA put up 52.645 yards with 369 of those being on the crowned, coming in nearly eight yards of carry.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty, it's carry for a much, much better Notre Dame offense than UCLA's offense through three games.
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue ranks last in the Big 10, but Purdue.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: is giving up an average of 446.7 yards giving up 36.3 points of game and allowing 27 yards to game on the ground.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they only have one takeaway.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the fewest in the big tent.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: So this is statistically a pretty bad defense that Purdue has.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if it's
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Notre Dame has been kind of struggling to run the ball and now they're struggling to run the game.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'd say Purdue defense that's struggling to stop the ball on the crown.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it'll be kind of an interesting match up there.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Last year there were averaging Notre Dame was averaging 5.6 nine yards per carry a last season.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: this year, it's only 3.64.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's still a decent number, but when you lose to very good draft picks, Jeremiah Love and Jderium Price, either of Notre Dame's running backs, Williams or James Junior, have really completely taken over that backfield.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: So,
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: of what better opportunity for Notre Dame than to get the rushing game going here.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess a Purdue defense that, like I said earlier, just so loud, 369 rushing yards against UCLA.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And CJ cars by far and away, better than G.O.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Lopez or Wake Forest.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Nico, I don't believe a, I mean, Emiliova, whatever his name is, CJ cars a lot better than him.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's gonna be pretty ugly
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, big game for the run defense, they're going to have to suck up a little bit just to try to help with that because what happened last week and if you do.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: CJ cars going to pick you apart.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't, Notre Dame's run game is good enough to pick you apart as we saw last week with the Nolan James going for over 120 yards against Michigan State, still don't look like the same Notre Dame rushing attack that it looked like last year when they were just bringing horses at you behind giant monsters.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: still it what we saw last week against the UCLA running game.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's good.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't get me wrong, but it's not Notre Dame's you know the second you see the promo up there Purdue Notre Dame next week as the UCLA games going on thinking oh my gosh that's yeah if this is this is bad how bad that gonna be so I hate to have that mentality going into these games but they've caused this
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: just they have and you're in a pretty bad spot to where if you only rush three or four guys you're given quarterbacks way too much time and with CJ Carr guy who has better than a 72% completion rate is strong ball and you know a 10 yards per attempt as six touchdowns and no other sections on the year in Notre Dame in general it hasn't turned the ball over all season
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: This offensive line also for Notre Dame has as only surrendered to Saxleier, so you either rush three or four guys and give C2 car away too much time to find to open guys and for their receivers to get open, or you bring extra pressure and kind of force the secondary to survive in some pretty difficult situations.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of pick your poison there with this Notre Dame offense and
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: that they've got some explosive weapons in the receiver room.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's been kind of produced thing so far this year.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's to try and prevent those explosive plays, but as we've seen through the first few games, I haven't necessarily succeeded at that strategy, but it's, I feel for Kevin Kane, he's taken a lot of heat and rightfully so, but I mean, he just has such a tough job.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright Jake, let's talk about the injury report and make our prediction and look ahead on the schedule a little bit and talk about some positive things.
• 10:53
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• 10:57
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• 11:05
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• 11:06
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• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: just check it out all right jake i want to get to some good stuff before we depress all of our listeners um but first uh do you have any update on Joey tenona and uh injuries uh i have not seen anything about him the longer this goes on the longer i get the feeling that he may not
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: play again.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I hate to say that because he's a great player in Peru.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, needs him on the offensive line.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: But Joey was at Notre Dame, got a pretty serious car accident.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it was basically told by the doctors, he should never play again.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: and he ended up getting that edge back for the game and decided to pursue trying to play football again and he got some bouquets from the doctors and he's able to play again.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now this injury has an ankle injury.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's completely different.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're not correlated at all with the accident or the injury from the car accident you was in.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know if he'll play same thing like Mr. Clark.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's been out the past a couple of games.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like he almost just, you know,
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let them sit this one out and kind of just kind of just take your beatings if for Purdue a little bit and just trying to get them all 100% healthy for Illinois because that's the game that you have much better shot of a winning.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I've not any official updates yet on any of Purdue players, but I know Fama, Ejaboy was being knuppled a little bit last week.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: George Burrhan has been being knuppled a bit as well.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So hopefully we kind of
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: get through this game play everybody'll stay healthy and I can kind of turn our focus on on Illinois.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah Illinois has struggled a little bit this year so
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: we look at the schedule for make our prediction for this game.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll just look ahead because we're both going to pick Notre Dame the win this game obviously.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just going to get by different scores and we'd look ahead to some games that Purdue could possibly win and they're out there and honestly after this weekend and until the IU game there's probably not a game.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: that they can't win except for probably at Penn State at Iowa.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Other than that, there are wins out there, and I think what we see on Saturday against Notre Dame will either give us confidence going into some of these games, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, Maryland, Wisconsin, or whether we should just start talking about basketball.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think, certainly, if Purdue can stay pretty competitive, still be in the game at halftime and in the third and fourth quarters, I think that certainly builds well for rest of season.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: We talked about the Wake Forest game, being a kind of a defining moment for this team and for the program, they responded, you know, that we see offense pretty well to that
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: defense, I'm sure it'll be committed to being better.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's very low bar after the UCLA game, but they're committed to being better and for the rest of season, from here on out, if you can hang in there with Notre Dame and give them a little bit scared, I get a little bit nervous, I think that not a certainly both well for us a year.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: For some teams like Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland, maybe even Wisconsin, some of those teams looking ahead of the schedule that pretty, may have a shot to pull off an upset.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the good news, Jake, is if they just get blown out and we have nothing to look forward to, there's basketball and you and I can talk for you basketball all day every day.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not all bad news, right?
• 14:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, the official practice started this week for pretty basketball and see, yeah, that's right around the corner.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's too bad we have to do this.
• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was hoping Barrio to him was the guy sure seemed like he might be still not saying that he's not going to be, but things are starting to look bad, Jake.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say that there's going to be a lot of points scored in this game, and I'm going to say Purdue is going to lose this one 59 at one.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a, that was a pretty good score.
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: My score prediction for this game, Notre Dame 55, Purdue 21.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty high scoring game here.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bald's Labor Day, and it's the one pretty easily here.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: If for who does have any chance to be in this game, I think you have to look at the side with Siemens, April Townsend.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've been kind of the go-to targets for Ryan Brown.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Notre Dame defense definitely is good, but I think those two guys would see him in towns and they're probably your best bets against Leonard Moore and Christian Gray in the Notre Dame by secondary.
• 15:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, through three games, we'll see him in towns and have kept combined for 39 receptions for 588 yards.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess you see a layout loan, we'll see him had eight catches for 149 yards and towns and had six catches.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: 162 yards and two touchdowns.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Brian Brown teamingly has some budget but playmakers is disposal which we cannot save for the past couple of years.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those two guys and wait towards Burr handicatural men there and the rest of the receiving corps they've got to get some real separation against this Notre Dame defense.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake and I think they will.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this offense is legit good.
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we have a few remember back the last year we were excited about the wide receivers and then we got to about the Notre Dame game and we thought they might not be very good and they turned out to not be very good but
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've seen these two receivers in particular, and a whole kind of receiver room full of talent.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do it against some pretty good teams, and they're been consistent.
• 16:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, 600 yards, three touchdowns, already 39 receptions between them.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: George Burrin is just love him.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to make a lot of plays for this team.
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I love, I find my easier.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think this offense is legit good.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they're going to have a chance to score 30 points, even against teams like Notre Dame.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I certainly hope so assuming he's fully healthy, they got to get fame and he's your boy back in the game.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, when the ground game wasn't there for Peru, it gets UCLA, your Peru still had some success, but I think
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: against a team like Notre Dame, you can't force Notre Dame or I just allow Notre Dame to just sit back and just play the pass at every time.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, hopefully, FOMA should boy can be back to his old ways and really give this Notre Dame team something to be worried about.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, with that said, Peru is facing a Notre Dame defense that is allowing only 58.3 rushing yards a game.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty brutal matchup and going up against an offensive line here that has allowed 15 tackles for loss.
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: through three games.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: If Purdue can't run it all, or Dame can send to pressure, and really force Ryan Brown to probably make some mistakes thrown the ball, not saying Purdue needs 200 yards rushing, but having some success would certainly go a long way for this offense.
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if Ezra Boy is not able to play I've really like what we've seen subject Gibson.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see him get some multiple carries in games and I think they need to get more out of Antonio Harris when he gets the ball on his hands.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: He does good things and I think it's a pretty good running back room too.
• 18:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once this game more than lightweight gets out of hand you certainly can start to put some of those guys in and really see what you have with the transfer portal air there's a risk to that because if they play really well,
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: You rest the chance of somebody else seeing that film and trying to approach them, you know, out of the portal following your, but I think you got to know who is actually good, who you must keep, who you can like go and who, you know, you can kind of tell, hey, thanks for your service, but you know, this is the end of our relationship type of thing.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So,
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just really hoping that this does not become 2024 all over again, because that game that 667 beat down, I was at that game and it was just miserable and it was basically the end of Ryan Walters, so yeah, that's, I think for seven points on Saturday, it might be the end of very early.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think.
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: very out of will have at least one more year just because uh... produced just paid that that big buy out for Ryan Wolves and uh... unless there's a donor out there willing to give that money out i don't know if they do that again but uh... yeah i i think it will at least have one more year but yeah if this is another point twenty four basically everybody's going to be out on uh... well i'm co-chode unfortunately all right jake well uh... we ended with a bit of a positive there and uh...
• 20:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really do, I like this offense, and I'm looking forward to watching them play against another day and see in what they can do.
• 20:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I'm not looking forward to is when Notre Dame has the ball because there's just no hope.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're man to man, they're just better everywhere.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: They don't turn the ball over, Purdue doesn't force turnovers, but offensively I think they can be competitive with anybody on the schedule.
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think so too, and with this Notre Dame game, one thing that we have it mentioned yet, and we probably should.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: The whole reason why Purdue has a true freshman starting kicker was because Spencer or Rath decided to leave Purdue for Notre Dame.
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: He never officially entered the portal, basically dropped out of Purdue and transferred
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, never officially entered the transfer portal.
• 21:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now there's a rule for that team's far allowed to do that anymore.
• 21:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: But that's the whole reason why I prepared a true freshman starting kicker.
• 21:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that'll be interesting.
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've been trying to see how he responds, being back to Ross Sade and wearing opposing teams, colors.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a Spencer poor office, five, six this season.
• 21:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if this is somehow a competitive game in the fourth quarter, it could be interesting to see how that plays out.
• 21:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like our kicker though.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad to happen.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, me too.
• 21:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: The shoel way Lee trophy has been gone for a long time, previous not possessed it since 2007, so almost 20 years Notre Dame leads 41 to 19.
• 21:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: and games with the chelily trophy on the line, Purdue actually does not currently possess any of its three rivalry trophies.
• 22:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: The old Okenbucket is unfortunately in the hands of the Indiana Hoosers, the Canon trophy is in the hands of the Illinois Fitellini, and the chelily trophy is in the hands of Notre Dame, it has been for a long time.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: younger Purdue fans, including myself, don't really remember what this rivalry even looked like when it was competitive each year under Joe Taylor, which was basically right before my time.
• 22:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue was five and seven against Notre Dame under his tenure and the two teams of really
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, no, excuse me, it was 2021, 2021 Purdue went to Notre Dame, under Jeff Brahm, why not the David Bell, you know, AOC, George Perloftis, that era of Purdue.
• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was at the Notre Dame game, and that was actually really competitive game, and I feel like that's the last time that the teams have even really been close in terms of, you know, talent.
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It actually felt, but I got was the last time that I can remember I guess it's 25 years ago, but that's last time I can remember that the teams have actually been somewhat competitive.
• 23:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so it looks like a totally trophy is going to stay in the hands of the fighting Irish.
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake, the biggest win I ever remember for Purdue football was on September 13th, 1997.
• 23:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Purdue was coming off its first game ever with Joe Taylor, a 36-22 lost Toledo and I thought, boy, where we go again with another worthless coach and then everything turned around the next week with a stunning win over Notre Dame, 2018 to 17 so maybe this could
• 24:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Barry Odom era the same way kickstarted the Joe Tiller era, but if we didn't feel like we're going to lose that game by 40 points, you never know, and I guess kind of another, another connection that we have not talked about, is Elie Lee said this episode that we may have last year, but Marcus Freeman has a Purdue connection, he was an assistant from 2013 to 2016 under Darrell Hazel.
• 24:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: He coached the linebackers and eventually became co-defensive coordinator.
• 24:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine if Purdue somehow could have kept him.
• 24:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Purdue probably be a little bit of a spot, but Notre Dame says a lot more resources than Purdue has, but anyway, he's now returning to West Lafayette with his Notre Dame program ranks number three, and they are in very hot pursuit of a national championship.
• 25:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: with his team scoring as he's had earlier 120 and 2 points and his nerdy team has some reason to be motivated.
• 25:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the after missing the the 2025 college football playoffs, they kind of adopted a mantra of leave no doubt.
• 25:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: So after beating Michigan State, only by 17, 27 to 10, Freeman was not thrilled with that performance.
• 25:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I think that does not set up well for Purdue.
• 25:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you'd gone back to that 2024 loss, I believe it was.
• 25:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had just lost to Northern Illinois and they were obviously very frustrated there and they took that fresh rich in Portland Purdue.
• 26:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, hopefully this scheme can be a little bit more competitive than Alan.
• 26:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if it is very competitive, you and I will have a reaction this weekend to it, but what our plan is as of now is to combine our breakdown of the Notre Dame game and talk some Purdue basketball next week on the Purdue Report and then preview the Illinois game.
• 26:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, Jake if it goes as expected, you and I will talk again in the middle of the week.
• 26:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: If it goes unexpectedly well, you and I will talk this weekend, everybody make sure you subscribe, so you know what week, have a podcast.
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• 27:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, thanks so much, Jake.
• 27:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really appreciate it as always.
• 27:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And don't forget to boil her up.
• 27:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, boil her up.
• 27:30
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