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GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS He���s a really detailed guy.��� of our class from this (Midwest) area. We will focus on prospects Gold and Black: Talk about the move to West Lafayette. in a 200 to 300 mile radius from here and we will go and pluck a When do you expect the family to move out here permaguy from Florida, Georgia or Texas.��� nently? Gold and Black: Which recruit was the most gratifying Hazell: ���We haven���t had a whole lot of time, been out of for you to recruit this year? town for the three, four weeks we���ve been here. But we���re still Hazell: ���I hate to categorize one guy over another guy. I like a searching every night online and trying to find the best possible lot of these guys obviously, but character, personality, and characplace for us to live. We���ll get the family out after my son finishes teristics of the different guy. You look at (Jake) Replogle���s family. sixth grade.��� It is just an amazing family, just great people. You go through the Gold and Black: We talk a lot about changing the cullist and all the families are just excellent. (Evan) Panfil comes to ture. What does that mean to you? Are there ingredients mind, too, and all those guys.��� to that? Gold and Black: I am curious about Replogle. You go into Hazell: ���There���s lot of ingredients. It���s everything from that house and they have two kids playing at IU. Was that an coming into the room with the right mindset, taking your hats interesting dynamic talking to them? off, from how you prepare when you���re studying film, all the Hazell: ���Maybe that is why they kept me out of the house little things that make the difference when it���s a critical situa(laughs). I actually met with Mom in the school and Jake in the tion in the game.��� school. When I look back at it, that is probably why they kept me Gold and Black: Are the guys doing a good job of not out of the house.��� wearing their hats now? (Hazell announced that rule in Gold and Black: What do you think about football in the the first team meeting.) state of Indiana? Hazell: ���Yeah, so far. I haven���t seen many guys walking Hazell: ���In Ohio, the kids are well-coached. I think that around the building with their hats on. If they forget, we���ll quiis where it all starts, there are some great football coaches in etly remind them. That���s a good point because it���s a learning the state of Ohio and I am sure there are as many in Indiana process. They���ve done it for a certain way for so long, and now as well. I was thinking about that the other night ��� that we Tom Campbell ought to start giving Indiana boys, when they are born, foot- Hazell believes that getting the Purdue family here���s a new way of doing it, and we���ll help them make the adon the same page is one of the key elements justment.��� balls in their cribs. So let���s start that tradition.��� Gold and Black: Do they have to dress a certain way? Gold and Black: Let���s turn our attention to subjects to success. Hazell: ���We���ll travel in coat and tie because it is a busiother than recruiting. How do you continue the Cradle of ness trip. We���ll always try to look sharp and classy.��� Quarterbacks legacy? Gold and Black: What���s your philosophy in trying to instill discipline? How do Hazell: ���I think what we need to do is obviously teach them the game and be efficient with the football. We���re going to throw it, and we���ll throw it as much as we you do it quietly but still forcefully? Hazell: ���I think it���s very important that they understand what the expectation is. have to throw it, and we���ll throw it in uncommon situations, which always keeps a defense off-balance. Those guys have to do a great job of protecting the football, be As long as they understand the expectation and they are told when they don���t meet the precise with their reads and be precise with their throws in those critical situations.��� expectation and they���re told when they meet the expectation, I���m not so sure you need Gold and Black: But you also took four running backs and have a lot of redshirt to act like a crazy man.��� freshmen linemen and have used the word ���physical��� quite a bit. Are you GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS looking at a pro-style offense where you run to set up the pass? Hazell: ���It���s cold outside right now. And it���s hard to throw and catch in the cold. I think if you can present your will in November and December running the football ��� we���re going to throw it obviously, we have to throw the ball as well ��� but I think if you can impose your will on people by running the ball, it will set a tone of what kind of football team you���ll be.��� Gold and Black: What are the challenges with possibly having to start a freshman or redshirt freshman at quarterback? Hazell: ���I think they���re the same to us, because no one knows the system, so they���re all young players in our mind. Obviously there���s been CERAMIC ��� ENGINEERED HARDWOOD some game experience by some of the older guys, but they all have to learn LAMINATES ��� MARBLE what our formations are, what our calls are; all those things that a new CARPETING quarterback has to know.��� Specializing in Gold and Black: Will your players be allowed on Twitter? Hazell: ���I���m not a big Twitter guy, and I���ve been asked several times to ��� Homes ��� Churches get on Facebook and Twitter, and to be honest, I probably need to get with ��� Businesses ��� Schools the times, I don���t know much about it. It���s hard to keep the players off of there. I caution them to not go out and put our business out in public. We���ll monitor it pretty closely.��� Where Contractors Buy Their Flooring Gold and Black: You have former Ohio State linebacker Marcus Builders! Call our Contract Department and ask Freeman as your linebackers coach. Is it easy to identify former playfor our Contract Specialist ers who will make good coaches down the road? 3437 State Road 26 E. Hazell: ���I think a lot of times, you see how guys prepare as players, and 765-447-9393 800-403-6889 how much time they spend in the meeting rooms and the film rooms and FAX 765-448-9978 their attention to detail. And I think there���s some translation between that Across from the Post Office and potentially being a good football coach. Now Marcus is a bright guy, he connects so well with our players, the linebackers are going to love him. GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GBIprint.com GoldandBlack.com Gold & Black IllustrateD ��� volume 23, issue 4 ������ 11