Purdue volleyball snapped a five-match losing streak Saturday, sweeping Rutgers after being swept by Penn State Friday night. The Boilers (#21 Massey, #22 AVCA) move to 12-7, 2-6 in conference play, and travel to Northwestern and #24/#24 Illinois this weekend.
Will Purdue beat Iowa this weekend? Which objectively awful songs do you love? Did you know Kyle Orton's infamous Jack Daniels picture happened in Iowa City?
J Money, Boilerdowd, and Aneesh reconvene to talk about Commodore Hazell (impressively) not losing the locker room last week, the meaningfulness of close wins versus bad teams, Darrell Hazell's heel click, projecting Purdue's remaining wins, piling up injuries on an already-thin roster, whether Purdue and Illinois would agree to play each other nine times during the Big Ten slate, and PJ Fleck's lunacy winning us over. All that, plus Dowd's tragic post-unicycling accident eulogy, Aneesh/Dowd's pledge to record the next podcast naked (and Hazell coaching the Northwestern game in only a vest and hat) if Purdue wins 3 of the next 4 games.
Boiler volleyball had a rough road trip last week, dropping a five-set match to Iowa and falling in straight sets to Nebraska in their first road matches of the conference season. AVCA #22 and Massey #19 Purdue returns home to face Penn State and Rutgers Friday and Saturday.
Coach Haze ices Illinois while leading his Boilers to a somewhat improbably victory.
This week’s exercise instead of really, seriously analyzing this dog of a football game is for each of the BS team to reveal their five favorite songs…. Either all-time or current, if you’re a wimp like Aneesh who is worried that he’ll be made fun of for putting down a Nickelback song. Join us...and share your thought.
Time to distract everyone from the abysmal horror that is our football team, and talk basketball.
Purdue volleyball faced their toughest back-to-back home opponents in program history as they welcomed #3 Wisconsin and #2 Minnesota to Holloway. The Boilers were unable to come away with a win, falling to Wisconsin in five sets and Minnesota in three, falling to 17th in the AVCA coaches poll and 15th in Massey.
Commodore Hazell sunk the ship. We found the letter he sent home, to his dearest Martha.
The Boilers roll into College Park for their first Big Ten meeting with Maryland. We also learn the sports movie preferences of the BS guys. It's a fun time here on the Predicto.
For the ninth straight season, the Monon Spike resides in West Lafayette, as the then-10th-ranked Boilers swept Indiana, 25-15, 25-17, 25-18, in front of a crowd of 8,240. Purdue hit .517 in the match, led by redshirt senior MB Faye Adelaja, whose .889 raised her attack percentage to .474, good for second in the nation.
Purdue football returned to action Saturday, recovering from a poor first half to hold off Nevada, 24-14. David Blough was 21 for 30 for 300 yards and 2 TDs, including a 51-yarder to Brycen Hopkins for the clinching TD, and Markell Jones carried 24 times for 124 yards and the go-ahead TD in the third quarter.
Purdue volleyball opened conference play by running into an orange and blue Illini wall, dropping their Big Tenteen opener 3-2 to Illinois Wednesday night. The Boilers will try to recover in the annual Monon Spike match against Indiana Saturday in Mackey Arena.
Each BS'er was given a 100 word limit on this week's game vs Nevada, but as much as they wanted to describe their perfect gameday snacking preferences. Surely, that's more interesting to our readers than breaking down this matchup. Also, the photo posted above was chosen purely for the value of showing what a kid from Brian Bosworth and Martina Navratilova would look like.
With three weeks of the college football season in the books, we know a lot more about Purdue's opponents and a lot more about our Boilers. So do we think any differently about the outlook for the season at this point? Find out...NOW!
