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Purdue Report with Jake Dunn: New AD & Football Camp Notes (2.327.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, only on Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome Purdue fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake Purdue has a new athletic director.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're also going to be talking some football camp notes, as well, and Jake loved the new athletic directors and enthusiasm, but I'm probably not a good idea to mock the champ.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I certainly didn't like the comment that Tommy McLaughlin made, but he did own up to it.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: He said he knows of the stake and some of the interviews that he's done here afterwards.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: But part of an 80's job is to keep your school relevant in the limelight.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's exactly what the time McLaughlin's comments did.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: If he doesn't make these comments, he's probably not on the bad Mac for show, which is one of the largest.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: shows in sport to media.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, getting able to be able to to broadcast and kind of get your vision out for peripheral ball on Pat's show.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it seems like for a couple of weeks, there's these high five star recruits announcing their commitments to all these schools.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so they obviously watch the show and know how big it is.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, being able to get that vision out in front of
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: you know, a good thing out of these comments, which, uh, think around the same page or Greg, we did, didn't, uh, didn't really like those comments.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do like that he's walking it back, because what it sounded like to me was he was trying to do the whole curse agmetti thing at curse agmetti, and it was just,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: pretty low class, but now that he, I see that he was immediate mistake, that can happen.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do like the mentality of, hey, this is a championship program.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bottom line is if he turns it into the championship program that he's promising, we'll all look back at, add it like IU fans look at Kurt Cignetti now and think, hey, he boasted, but he backed it up, but if he doesn't, he will be laughed out of town.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I heard people calling for his, like a, you know, a resenchant in his offer.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was a little extreme, but he's walking into Purdue and incredibly important time, you know, not only in, and it's athletic department, but just in college sports as a whole, using the editing, Matt Painter, and an elite basketball program, using hearing a football
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: The big 10 landscape seems like it's always changing obviously revenue sharing in I.L.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you don't want one of the reasons you he was brought in to Purdue.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a boy that's to fundraise.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you know, increasing those donor expectations and increasing the the demands for Improficiality things like that, you know, that's what's going to be most important here.
• 3:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think four time in the claw and in in his era.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: During his time at Vanderbilt, he helped over see the Vandy United fundraising campaign and that and up generating more than $300 million for Vanderbilt University and that's a pretty remarkable accomplishment.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And at Rice, which is where he came from, his most recent stop was an athletic director at Rice, he created an NIL slash general manager position or the athletic department.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And also establish what they called the South Main Fund, which went to go support.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Student athletes like that, and they were planned to make some mixed use developments around the stadium to help find ways to bring in new revenue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's going to be something that at Purdue, especially in a place where although prudents have like the 7th or 3th largest donor base in the country,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: alumni are geared towards giving towards athletics or more geared towards giving towards the actual academic side of the university.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So finding ways to bring in more revenue for the university using what's already existing is going to be huge and maybe you're raising funds to do something like they have some more developments around the stadiums that can help bring in some
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited for his vision, it seems like he, you know, really, he kind of knows what's ahead of him.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I seem to like an honest and genuine guy and just like he'll be great for Purdue.
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue needs somebody who can kind of help with the answer of, hey, help help.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: This Purdue can be financially with the upper tier of the Big 10.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, you'll football is a,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is a big piece of that.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think you need a guy like Tom and McCall and who can come in and try and help race those fun.
• 5:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I prove can compete with the upper tier of the big tints.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a completely different job than it was even 10 years ago, Jake.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And luckily, there's a little bit of overlap here with Tom and McCall and Mike Babinski.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Michael Bensky, he is going to stay on until the end of the year as a topic and can kind of learn the ropes and everything of Purdue, but I believe Tom McLean's first official day is August 17th.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: So obviously he's already been in the building and things like that before, but I think from a contractual standpoint, it's technically the first day, but
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's also here before the football season starts too, which is nice because he is to see how the program operates, what the culture looks like, what the facilities and the program need, you know, how the university handles and I recruit fan interest things like that.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: He'll get to see all the areas where Purdue succeeding and not succeeding and he can come in and you know, bring in his new kind of outsider ideas, which I think will be, will be good for Purdue.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's not necessarily coming to fix football, but fixing football is, I would argue probably the top priority of his tenure.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be fixing football and getting it to a place where, you know, Jeff Brown once had it where, you know, it was Frank's in the top 25 once again.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if Barry don't can succeed, obviously time the college job is going to be a lot easier, but hopefully time in the club can do things to make Barry out of the job easier and then it kind of just pin wheels from there.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if football teams struggle then time in the club is gonna have to make some some decisions, but by like Barry, I think you said,
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you can stay around, I hope you can keep my specific success.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's more than I ever wanted to talk about an athletic director, Jake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's talk some football.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's time to talk some actual sports now, Jake.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: A football team that we don't have to sugarcoat.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: It has been really bad for the last couple of years, including Barry Oden's first year last year at Purdue.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: a little more competitive than the year before.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we can say that a couple of wins at least, but not the kind of sign we were hoping, especially with what's going down south and we've talked about it a little bit.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is just a huge camp.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I got to say that most of the things we're hearing coming out of the camp are positive.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you hear a lot of things positive about a camp and that
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: You kind of got to be careful, like you mentioned, of what you hear out of camp and stuff, but from all accounts that I've been able to kind of follow, Ryan Brown seems to seem to be kind of really coming into his own and developing into, and to, you know, that true star quarterback that, that, you know, Barry Adams seems to think that that you can be, um,
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: one big story lines here as we start year two of the period of mayra is Ryan Brown's development.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's been doing things like traveling to Dallas, Texas on his own time every week to work out with his quarterback coach Jeff Christianson, which from why I understand his a pretty top tier quarterback coach.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he's also occasionally brought down some pre-wide receivers with him and paid for their
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: if you didn't really care that much about being great or about improving the team, you know, that's something that certainly isn't the expectation, but it's great to see that Ryan Brian is trying to build that chemistry and really eliminate any excuses for failure this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, Ryan himself has talked about how valuable having kind of a four-year of starting experience has been.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: He can look back at the film for the last year he understands.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what's worked and what has it worked?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These are just entering the season with conservatively more experience than he had a year ago.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this all kind of connects directly to what Coach Adam was saying after the spring is that consistency in playing smarter football, we're gonna be the biggest areas of growth for Ryan Brown in an interview here during camp.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: taking easy throw, staying efficient, moving the football, and pick in your spots for the big play, this is some things that he has proved on, and that's probably going to be the biggest question for Ryan this year.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can he turn those physical talents into consistent quarterback play over 12th games?
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the biggest question for him is going to be are the running game and offensive line improved and giving more time and ability to become an impactful quarterback.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's doing all these things to improve and develop with hopefully an improved line.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: We saw last year that before he suffered his shoulder injury, he was
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: completely different quarterback before and after the injury before.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: And yes, he still had some, you know, compound headed turnovers that could have been eliminated.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: But he looked so much better for the injury than afterwards.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before the injury, he looked like a, you know, top, half, top, third of, you know, quarterback in a big 10.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then after the injury, he looked like one of the worst quarterback's in big 10.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: with hopefully and improved offensive line and hopefully some new transfers here in the back field, that can help block help to develop that everyone game.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: John Slotter, Jayden Mangam, who do transfer from Michigan, there's definitely more size and more length back there than we've seen from Purdue here in recent years.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's important because Purdue's brought in a lot of these guys in secondary because the talent just wasn't really there.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: The question, what's spring has been,
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: can these pieces actually become a cohesive unit.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the secondary does hold up that gives the defensive line more of a chance to become aggressive, which, as we talked about in the past, last year kind of struggled getting that pressure and, you know, had a secondary that wasn't great either that was not a good formula for, for keeping points off the board, but it seems like Purdue believes in defensive front
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: T. J. Lundz, you suffered a torn C.L.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: last year, is the cement to work his way back in Jeffree's as a kind of emergent as an anchor.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wisdom Sims, Curt Neill, and Ronny Laura, and add some depth as well, a guy who kind of forgot about here, Kishan Burgos.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: He may be one of the most physically imposing defense on the roster.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I saw somebody say,
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it looks the part, but the question is will he actually produce, and then somebody you talked about quite a bit in the spring was Jeremy Lewis, somebody who brought in from the junior college ranks, he's been mentioned for as a as a patch rest standout.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, Dida, probably for some and a while produced had some some roster, it looks like there's some
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... snag's got to play like he had those those in a fell talents on the roster just twenty six days to kick off yet yep i think there's uh... some big question marks uh... here for like special teams pretty lost it's been so poor af last year to note or dame lost jack for calcir who is probably produced in vp uh... the punter last year so you're placing both the kicker in the punter
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  [SPEAKER_01]: from last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so far through camp, sets her as looked pretty good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He showed us leg last year as being the kickoff specialist.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He looked pretty good in the spring.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And at the end of practice, here recently, I saw something that said he made a pretty long kick and out of players all formed them and yelling and celebrating.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I seem to like he is
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: It seems to be leading for the job, but Purdue got a commitment here earlier this season.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess Cameron's a spring or last fall in the winter time sometime, but true freshman, gobo, at Chuvara, Luzano, I think, is this how you say his name, but I do the true freshman.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I had Alfred from like Ohio State.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: He came in and committed and it can't seem to like
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: It'd be, I guess, good to get this freshman to some experience, too.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I guess that'd be a good thing, if you use that good to come in and play as a true freshman, but on the other side, the special teams, a pun in unit, you can lose in Jeff McAllister, the best partner for use, had here recently, I got Dylan Drennan, he came more from Buffalo, and Sam Dudley, who was a transfer last year I believe,
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: It seems to be kind of in the lead there.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: It says a little bit more coming off his foot.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a small sample size, only a few practices in the camp, but you can't afford a special teams to be a weakness for a Purdue of the season.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Especially if there's some one score games that per year loss last year.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: His special team is wasn't making the case for most of them, but you have to eliminate as many mistakes as you can.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: for a team like Purdue, because they may not be good enough to be just anybody.
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you can not be yourself, that's almost a win.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's self which seemed like Purdue was beating themselves a lot last year.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Jake thinks so much.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: As always, always good to talk for a new.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully it'll be good to actually talk some Purdue football this year.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hope so too.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully we'll have some nice wins.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can come on here and talk about it and not be so, so sulky.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: We probably were sometimes last year or so.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: The last couple years have been brutal.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yes they have, yes they have.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Especially with what's going on down so.
• 15:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Jake.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening.
• 15:54
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• 16:54
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