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Ever Grateful, Ever True
BY STACY CLARDIE
SClardie@GoldandBlack.com
Tom Campbell
It'll have been more than 1,000 days since Rob Henry has
started for Purdue when he takes the field with the first team
at quarterback against Cincinnati Aug. 31. During the eventfilled nearly three years — littered with injury and frustraob Henry didn't really want this.
He walks into the team meeting room inside tion at being underutilized — Henry waited with a calmness
and patience grounded in his faith for his second chance.
the Mollenkopf Athletic Facility, which houses Pur- He's ready to seize it.
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due's football offices, and stands behind a lectern.
He immediately looks down at his attire: A white
T-shirt, a tiny stain on it. That sheepish grin spreads
across his face.
"I didn't know I'd have to do this," he tells the handful of reporters in the room.
He'd have been happy if there was no press con10
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ference, joking he'd have been fine if Darrell Hazell
simply opted to tweet the winner of the Boilermakers'
quarterback competition.
But Henry knows this is Purdue, the school that
touts its quarterback heritage and where just around
the corner from where Henry is standing there's a wall
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