After losing 7-foot-3 center Matt Haarms – a former UK target – to BYU and multi-year starting wing Nojel Eastern to the NCAA transfer portal this week, Purdue head coach Matt Painter is not a happy camper.
In an appearance this afternoon on The Dan Dakich Show, Painter made it clear that those who leave the Purdue program will not be better off elsewhere.
“I don’t mean to hurt anybody’s feelings, because I like the guys who have left my program,” Painter said in the interview, via Robbie Weinstein of 247Sports. “I like both of them.