As of June 18th, 2015, Purdue has 18 varsity sports, the fewest among other Big Ten Conference members. Even the University of Chicago had 19 varsity sports at one point before departing the B1G and focusing on academics. As much as we want to speculate and form conspiracy theories around Morgan Burke and Mitch Daniels, athletics isn't going anywhere for Purdue, but we also shouldn't expect an increase in varsity teams. Purdue runs a very tight and independent athletic budget, and as much as it annoys us at times, has been able to stay afloat somehow.
But let's say, for the sake of this article, that Purdue could add two new varsity teams, one for the men, and one for the women.