{"id":679022,"date":"2026-06-02T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679022\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:53:08","slug":"big-ten-coach-criticizes-purdues-transfer-portal-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679022\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten coach criticizes Purdue’s transfer portal strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

An anonymous Big Ten coach criticized how Purdue<\/a> handled the transfer portal during the offseason. Athlon Sports spoke to the coach about how the Boilermakers look heading into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome continuity definitely helps (head coach) Barry Odom<\/a> in Year 2,\u201d the Big Ten coach said.<\/a> \u201cTruthfully, I wasn\u2019t incredibly impressed with what they brought in through the transfer portal. At Purdue, you have such an avenue to offer playing time to guys when other schools that you\u2019re gonna play against that aren\u2019t that much better than you can\u2019t do that. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think they took great advantage of that, but I definitely think they\u2019ll be better from a continuity standpoint. I really do think that they have a good coaching staff, but I\u2019d be lying if I said that I was impressed with what they brought in through the portal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Purdue is ranked No. 24 in On3\u2019s Transfer Portal rankings.<\/a> While the team lost 19 players, Purdue brought in 29 student-athletes, including Georgia transfer Elo Modozie <\/a>and USC transfer Micah Banuelos<\/a>. The Boilermakers have the fourth-best transfer portal class behind Wisconsin, UCLA and defending national champion Indiana. <\/p>\n

Barry Odom says Purdue\u2019s 2025 season was \u2018awful\u2019 <\/p>\n

As the Big Ten coach mentioned, Odom is entering his second season as the head coach at Purdue. The team struggled in 2025, finishing 2-10 on the year and 0-9 in Big Ten play. It was the second consecutive season the Boilermakers did not win a conference game. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awful, just to be really honest, it was terrible,\u201d Odom said about last season on 107.5 The Fan<\/a> in April. \u201cBut I also saw areas that we were making improvements, and I\u2019ve got such strong conviction that it\u2019s about to break open and it\u2019s going to happen because of those things, the work ethic, the staff, the things that we\u2019ve done in the in the weight room in the offseason, the additions we\u2019ve made, the gains that our returners have made. There were times that it seemed like we were so far off, and then other times going like, man, we\u2019re about to break this open last year, and I never could get us over the hump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Athlon Sports gave an in-depth analysis of Purdue and all the FBS teams in its annual College Football Preview magazine. Fans can order the magazine by clicking HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An anonymous Big Ten coach criticized how Purdue handled the transfer portal during the offseason. Athlon Sports spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,417,398,396,397,295936,99],"class_list":["post-679022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-in","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-purdue-boilermakers-west-lafayette","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}