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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue hoops, football recruiting updates

by: Derek Schultz07/22/25
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In our July 22, 2025, edition, GoldandBlack.com’s Brian Neubert and Dub Jellison break down the latest in Purdue men’s basketball and football recruiting with host Derek Schultz.

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PURDUE MEDIA DAY COVERAGE IN LAS VEGAS

(AN EXCERPT FROM BRIAN NEUBERT’S THREE THOUGHTS COLUMN)
This week, Big Ten football media day visits Las Vegas for some reason. I will not be going, but it will be Tom Dienhart biding his time at the slot machines and buffets and gratefully accepting coupons being handed out on the street corners.

But I do have some requests:

  1. For organizers of this event and various media gatekeepers: You are asking a lot of people rto spend a lot of time and money to make a trip that for years they could easily drive to. It’s your implicit obligation to make it worth their time. This event has become so focused on broadcast and social content and just lapping up coaches’ empty platitudes that it was hardly worth the media’s time when it didn’t require an 1,800-mile flight from Chicago or 2,500-mile flight from Newark, provided flights are properly departing and landing from Liberty International.

Make these coaches and players available in a meaningful way and make sure the freaking WiFi works. We’re not snobs. But this is a long trip, and I fly to all corners of the Lower 48 for Big Ten basketball games now and get seated directly behind a TV camera at Rutgers and found Bigfoot easier to find at Washington than the media entrance to the arena because of construction visiting media wasn’t warned about prior to their first-ever visit to the place. We’re not asking for special treatment, just standard courtesies.

2. Coaches: Say interesting things. No one knows who’s on your teams. Please tell us if they are good and why.

Thank you.

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