To be fair, he did address it, but declared the topic dead to him going forward.
There was a laughable attempt to link Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi to the vacant Purdue job early in the week. It wasn’t by the media. Their only reference to Purdue was that reportedly the powers that be at Purdue were looking to go big on the hire and willing to make a financial commitment.
Basically, boilerplate stuff from the Boilermakers.
No power conference school — no matter how bad or how cheap, and Purdue encompasses both parts — is going to talk about settling on the cheapest most convenient candidate.