After going 5-19 in his two seasons at West Lafeyette, Walters was let go Sunday with three years left on his contract

Ryan Walters becomes the shortest-tenured non-interim Purdue head coach since Elmer Burnham coached 18 games in 1942-43.

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Purdue fired head football coach Ryan Walters on Sunday after two seasons. The move came on the heels of the Boilermakers enduring their worst loss in the program's history, a 66-0 shellacking by No.

BLOOMINGTON — Ryan Walters wants to be Purdue football's head coach. But when he's asked if he's going to be moving forward, Walters can't answer that. He just coached a 1-11 team that suffered the worst loss in Boilermaker history twice in a span of 11 games after Indiana's merciless 66-0 bludgeoning of Purdue at Memorial Stadium Saturday night.

Purdue fires football coach Ryan Walters after going 5-19 in his two seasons, AP source says.

Walters fired offensive coordinator Graham Harrell just 16 games into his tenure, turning over the play-calling duties to Jason Simmons, a longtime Indianapolis prep head coach who was in just his second season coaching at the college level.

Purdue athletic director Mike Bobinski didn't pinpoint a day when he knew it was time to move on from Ryan Walters, but rather a "tidal wave of negative events."