GLENDALE, Ariz. — Other Big Ten coaches walked into the high school point guard’s living room and told him lots of things he wanted to hear, and very little he did not. “I was very quickly convinced,” said Mike Bobinski, who became Purdue’s athletic director in 2016 and has Painter on a five-year deal that automatically extends by a season …
DETROIT — Instead of rebuilding via the transfer portal or overhauling the roster with some splashy NIL deals when its season came to an embarrassing halt last year, Purdue looked straight in the mirror. I think it’s a big fallacy in recruiting because everybody wants to play shortstop and lead off, but you’ve got one shortstop, and if Cal Ripken …