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volume 24, EX 9 • nov. 7, 2013 Inside | Iowa Preview 9-13 | Football Notes 26-30 Basketball Coverage 31-40 | Recruiting News 41-42 Working The Plan BY STACY CLARDIE SClardie@GoldandBlack.com "We're all staying positive and we're workarrell Hazell actually has ing to get our been through a worse guys better, and stretch than what Purdue is enthat's the whole during right now. key." In his first two seasons as an Outwardly, assistant coach at Rutgers in 2001 Hazell seems and 2002, the Scarlet Knights like he is hanwere 3-20 and lost all 14 of their dling the team's Big East Conference games. struggles OK. And they weren't nail-biters. He's stayIn that two-year span, Ruting positive, gers was shut out five times, bespeaking about ing dominated by the ranked i m p rove m e n t teams on its schedule (61-0 to and working to No. 2 Miami) and the ones that Tom Campbell find fixes beweren't (80-7 to below-.500 West Darell Hazell (left) has experienced a similarly tough stretch during his coaching career. In in his first two cause that's all Virginia). seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights won only three games. Purdue has four games he knows to do: Not that Hazell tries to draw left to pick up that many. Work. on that frustrating time now with good times. But it's never easy. You take He's even the Boilermakers 1-7 and winless in four each year individually and you analyze joking a bit, saying he's just upped his Big Ten games. it and you try to find ways to get better. usage of Prevacid, the over-the-counter "Sometimes you have short memory You don't look back at your successes. You heartburn medication. as a coach," he said. "You try not to remem- don't look back at your failures. You look He's able to do both because he has ber those situations. You remember the forward to see how you can get better. an innate trust in his coaching staff. It's a D THE Numbers 3 7-17 2 181 Boilermaker punters who have previously led the league in punting for a single season. The Boilermakers' conference record in 1991, '93 and 2001 when the team had the league's best punter. Where Cody Webster ranks currently in the conference race in punting with a 44.0 average (in Big Ten games only). He's No. 1 overall. Offensive plays the Boilermakers have run since taking their last snap in the red zone, vs. Northern Illinois Sept. 28. group mixed with up-and-comers as well as established veterans. They've been part of winning programs before, and they're still those same coaches: Ones who are experts, teachers and tireless workers. "I stand by those guys," Hazell said. "Sometimes you feel a little bit bad because they're not having the success that they want to have, just like all of us. But those guys are excellent coaches. They know what they're talking about. When we start winning championships, they'll think we're geniuses. We're not geniuses. When you lose, they think you're idiots. You're not idiots. "It's just what you have and what you do with what you have. But we're going to be good." GoldanDBlack express • volume 24, express 9 • 1