Purdue will hire Illinois defensive analyst Grant O'Brien as secondary coach
Ryan Walters' maiden Purdue staff is set to import a second coach with Illinois ties: Grant O'Brien, who will coach safeties.
I think Walters learned a lot for Bielema in a couple years. I hear nothing but good things as far as how Illinois runs meetings, practices, etc. Walters had a good mentor for those two short years. I think he's going to do fine. It's all going to come down to recruits.This might be the most obvious yet not talked about point in ALL of the success both we had as a team and RW had as a DC.
If he and Harrell can’t get on the same page (regardless of who RW’s DC is or if RW himself is calling the plays on D) it could sink Purdue.
Quick drives (tactically good/strategically neutral if they end in a score or strategically bad if they don’t) that often go along with pass happy offenses are going to put the D out there A LOT and even a RW’s D gets tired in the 4th quarter if it’s asked to do too much.
It’s the game/business. Happens all the time.Poaching coaches and now players that we were recruiting. This could get ugly...