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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue football, basketball talk with Neubert

by: Derek Schultz08/26/25
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In our August 26 edition, GoldandBlack.com editor Brian Neubert and host Derek Schultz break down Purdue’s football season and its challenges in 2025. The duo wraps with men’s basketball talk as the Boilermakers look to 2025-26 and beyond.

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ON WEEK 1 IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

So the season is here and I’d think that a whole new era of strange opening-weekend outcomes is upon us.

How in the world are these teams supposed to scout one another? Everyone has numerous important newcomers, any program with a new coach has a whole new team and all the low- and mid-majors have been portal-pillaged.

Some teams will be harder to know than others, Purdue among them.

Ball State can watch UNLV defensive and special teams film as those coordinators came with Barry Odom, but the offense the Rebels won with last season probably doesn’t apply.

Opposing coaches can study Ryan Browne and Devin Mockobee from last season at Purdue and UNLV offensive line play, but there’s only so much value there when everything’s different around them. After that the most relevant tape to watch might be Georgia.

This of course goes both ways, as Purdue can’t have many knowns on Ball State, either, and so these first two games for the Boilermakers are so much more about Purdue than the opponent.

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ON PURDUE FOOTBALL PRACTICE

I like to make fun of college football coaches and their general penchant for entitlement and paranoia and occasional autocratic tendencies, but credit where it’s due here: From afar, Barry Odom seems like a real human who is doing the right things.

I say this after training camp concluded, a camp that was open to the media, and coaches who do that are wise. Yes, there is risk, I suppose, in classified info getting out, but in the big picture, what coaches who battle the media don’t understand is that when the people who cover you know what they’re talking about, everybody wins. When you cover a team you have to do so from positions of knowledge, and coaches who fight media and BS them at every turn disallow that and that does no one any good, including the coach himself.

The day-to-day beat guys who cover Purdue should understand what they’re covering better than they would have had they just had to take peoples’ word for it during carefully controlled, performative interviews.

So kudos to Odom and his cabinet for making that call.

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