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PRESENTS FOOtball: news and notes Staying Busy Link t purdu o 2012e���s seaso statsn BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF staying exDarrell Hazell is in his head tremely busy first weeks as Purdue���s new coach. Friday, the former Kent State boss said he was spending about 75 percent of his time at Purdue now trying to finish up the 2013 recruiting class and the other 25 percent working to complete his staff. The latter has six official members, although a seventh ����� defensive line coach Jappy Oliver, who is at Buffalo and a former Notre Dame assistant under Charlie Weis ��� is a possibility. But along with those tasks, Hazell is trying to learn more about his current personnel as well. He held his first team meeting at Purdue on Jan. 13. During that session, the Boilermakers learned of some new guidelines. The players walked in to on the game field. They have to understand that. They���re learning. ��� You���ve got to give them a little bit of leeway while they���re learning the new rules, but then once they learn them, there are no gray areas. ���The big message, first of all, is being accountable for everything that we do and making sure Purdue is no longer thought of as a middle team. We need to rise to the top and stop being perceived as a team that���s hanging in the middle.��� The commitment will start in the winter workouts, which are underway, and Hazell will expect discipline there, too. ���(It���s) all of those little things that set the discipline that you need to have to win Tom Campbell Darrell Hazell is fully involved now at Purdue, from hiring his staff to finishing up recruiting, to meeting his current players. assigned seats in the meeting room and quickly noticed another difference: Hazell politely asked players who were wearing hats to remove them. It���s a Hazell rule they hadn���t learned yet. It���ll be only one in a list of directives Hazell has set. ���There���s a lot of things that you say ���no bending.��� If you don���t have those things in place, then it gets a little bit messy,��� he said when it comes to accountability and discipline. ���When it���s time to make that play ��� it all correlates back to what happens Dru Anthrop���Lafayette, Ind. Management Dru is one of seven basketball players to earn academic All-Big Ten honors on the Fall 2012 semester. In all 51 Boilermaker fall 2012 athletes earned this distinction. GoldanDBlack express ��� volume 23, express 18��� ������ 25