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GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS CERAMIC • ENGINEERED HARDWOOD LAMINATES • MARBLE CARPETING Specializing in • Homes • Churches • Businesses • Schools Where Contractors Buy Their Flooring Builders! Call our Contract Department and ask for our Contract Specialist 3437 State Road 26 E. 765-447-9393 800-403-6889 FAX 765-448-9978 Across from the Post Office GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS The following is a brief question-and-answer session with Purdue defensive line coach Rubin Carter. Gold and Black: Why did you want to come to Purdue? Carter: "The reason why I wanted to come to Purdue is first of all, Coach Darrell Hazell. I know the type of coach he is and the person he is and the character he has and the work ethic he has. He's proven himself to be able to take a program and elevate it to another level. I see great potential in this program. It's a very competitive conference, but I see this program as being able to elevate and take it to another level." Gold and Black: Some people are splitting up coaching ends and tackles. Do you like the idea of coaching the entire line? Carter: "I do because those guys have to be coordinated up front. When you talk about playing against the run and gap control and also rushing the quarterback and having good lane distribution, getting into the throwing lanes and windows and then being able to keep especially athletic quarterbacks bottled in and be able to cage those quarterbacks and keep them in the pocket so they won't be running all over the place. I like coaching the entire front so we're coordinated." Gold and Black: What's your coaching style? Carter: "My emphasis is technique and fundamentals. That's what I teach, the ABCs of football, the how tos, why we do it, this is how it's effective, to be able to help a student-athlete really excel at their skills. I'm very technique-sound, believe in discipline, alignment, assignment, doing your techniques and the things that are going to help you be a productive player. I'm a very demanding coach, demanding, not demeaning. Setting a standard of performance. To me, a defensive line has to have a code of honor and understand that this is a position that has great demands. We have to be able to stop the run, up front. It's the first line of defense. We have to be able to stop the quarterback from throwing the ball down the field on deep patterns. So there are great demands on playing the position and those are the things I convey to our defensive line unit." Gold and Black: Why did you get into coaching? Carter: "It's being able to continue the legacy. I have a wealth of information to be able to pass on to another generation of athletes. Not just the players but also the coaches, to be able to convey that and be able to see this information be processed and continue to move forward and to be able to hopefully help a young man elevate his game to continue to play and play for a long time. That's the reason why I got into coaching, be a mentor, build relationships with young men, to be able to help them not just with Xs and Os and how tos of playing football but to help them understand life situations, the daily grind of just life itself." — Brian Neubert "I think that at some point in time we'll get stale as a practice, and it's hard to get stale when you've got 50 bodies standing around watching every drill and guys watching them compete," he said. "It also gets (players) in the mode of, 'You've got to perform in front of people.' It's not just about Tom Campbell practice. You have to eliminate the Suspended wide receiver O.J. Ross will not performance anxiety when people participate in spring practices. GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS GO BOILERMAKERS Q&A With rubin carter GoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 26 • 26