Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor, March 9, 2014
Matt Painter was brutally honest about the state of the Purdue basketball program and the coaching job he did this season in his postgame press conference Sunday afternoon. Fresh off a season-ending loss to Northwestern, which clinched the No. 12 seed in next week's Big Ten tourney, Painter, on several occasions, said, "It's my fault." Watch Painter in this post.
VIDEO: "It's my fault." – Matt Painter, brutally honest about himself & @BoilerBall's last-place finish. WATCH – http://t.co/dUQBeMFWeW
— Purdue On BTN (@PurdueOnBTN) March 9, 2014
Here's what Painter had to say:
"First of all, it's my fault. It's my job to get guys to play together, it's my job to get guys to play, it's my job to get guys to play smart, and we don't do any of those. And so that is my fault. When you start off, people will always give you a break. But when you're somewhere for nine years, they shouldn't. They absolutely shouldn't, because it is my fault we are in this position."
"We have to a recruit a more unselfish player, we have to recruit a tougher player. We have some of those guys in our program, some guys who don't.
"And that's my fault. This isn't a school district, I recruited these guys."
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