Having a great pitching staff is hard to cobble together in college baseball. If you’re blessed with a true No. 1 starter it is a huge advantage. The same is true if you have a lights out closer. Generally, teams look for three starters for their weekend series. For midweek games they usually try to develop a younger guy that is being groomed for a future weekend spot, or they do a bullpen game where several guys get work.
Purdue under Greg Goff has not generally had a guy that is going to go eat 6-7 innings per game.