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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4890717, member: 27"]
Maybe a little. Dale has been paired with Brohm since they were both at Western Kentucky.

The new UL coach is a UL alum who was a very good OL there, and who then had a long NFL career, and then started off coaching at low level colleges in the South.  He progressed upwards quickly and had a lot of success.

If Dale‘s OL had a weakness, it was run blocking. From what I have seen and read, his lines were solid pass blocking.  Purdue ran the ball with some success under Brohm but most of the time they moved it via the pass.  Guessing the new coach might be better at teaching run blocking?  They certainly ran it well this past season.

The other things are that Dale is getting up there in years and maybe Brohm wanted a younger coach the players could relate to better?

Lastly, Dale is from Cleveland.  He has historically focused on recruiting the Midwest.  With the move from the B1G to the ACC, perhaps Brohm saw the Midwest connections as much less important and he valued a coach from the area who had also coached extensively in the area?

Just googled the best OLs in the B1G in 2022.  The article I found had Purdue 5th.  That is pretty darned good given how important OLs are in the B1G.  If he can get the SU OL somewhere in the middle of the ACC, I would be thrilled.  And if he can get a decent player or two out of the Northeastern area of Ohio, an are that is not that far away and that we have pretty much ignored for decade, that would be awesome.
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