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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue men's hoops roster chat

by:Derek Schultz•04/15/25
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In our Tax Day edition of Gold and Black Radio, GoldandBlack.com Purdue men’s basketball expert Brian Neubert chats with host Derek Schultz about coach Matt Painter’s recent roster moves and what lies ahead for 2025-26.

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Excerpted from Brian Neubert Three Thoughts From the Weekend Colu

ON WHAT MUST BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS

What have we learned these past few months in both college football and college basketball? Unless you absolutely must — and let’s start pondering the meaning of “must” — don’t change coaches.

Now if you change coaches, your whole team leaves, and you have to run a pick-up team out there the following season. Worse yet, since all those players are going to be transfers, you’re likely have to do it again the next year and the next, and the next …

This is the way it is now and it’s probably not going back.

Schools ought to be inclined to side-step the vicious cycle at every opportunity.

If you think you have a good coach but he or she is just doing OK, give ’em more time. Because doing just OK is a hell of a lot better than what you’re gonna start seeing regularly as more and more of these teams put together on day laborer bases totally crater. Watch.

This where advantages are steering toward Matt Painter’s continuity model and this is the hurdle Barry Odom has to push Purdue football over these next few seasons.

ON THE THING AT TENNESSEE

The completely flipped-over world order of college sports hit its inevitable zenith of absurdity this weekend, when Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava and the MENSA members advising him used the end of spring ball as their moment to shake UT down for more money, to which Tennessee showed a level of restraint unknown to SEC culture and let its QB walk just a few months before the season.

Kudos to the kids for getting theirs, but this was really poorly planned out by non-serious people advising this young man, none of which seem to be, you know, professionals. Now this player has left a really good situation at Tennessee, having to start over elsewhere and now with a reputation trailing him into the open market. If he wants $4 million, maybe he’ll get it, maybe he won’t, but after much of the portal spending spree has concluded, how many schools have that kind of scratch left to burn?

Guys, hire real agents. You can do that now.

And fans and coaches, keep your head on a swivel, because the leverage has changed hands. Wait ’til somebody does this on Selection Sunday or the week of the College Football Playoff

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