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volume 24, EX 10 • nov. 14, 2013 Inside | Penn State preview 9-13 | Football notes 26-30 Painter, Versyp sign classes 33-35 | Basketball underway 36-41 Rebuilding Process BY STACY CLARDIE SClardie@GoldandBlack.com men PurThe—three mosttoimportantHazell,inoffendue's charge "reshape, rebuild, return" head coach Darrell sive coordinator John Shoop and Greg Hudson — quickly have realized as the season has progressed that the "rebuild" element of that mantra may take longer than they'd thought. The Boilermakers enter Saturday's game at Penn State winless in their first five Big Ten games and winners of only one of their nine games on the season. And it hasn't just been the losses, it's how Purdue is losing that's been hard for fans to swallow. In the eight losses, the Boilermakers' have been beaten soundly on the whole, by an average of 32.4 points. They're on pace to finish with one of the worst scoring offenses in the program's 126-year history. They're only 72 points away from allowing more in a season than any other Purdue team — last year's being the pre- ing job than when he took it. "I don't know I said it was going to be this fast or this slow. You just work through it and work through the process and you figure it out as you go along. "It's one of those things, you try to figure out as you go through the process. You evaluTomCampbell ate your talent, evaluGreg Hudson knew he'd have a challenge to rebuild Purdue's defense — it was one ate where they are that allowed a school record 400-plus points last season. But he's not the only assistant coach consumed with developing a better product on the field. mentally, physically, all those things as you go vious worst. Opponents' 37.2 points per through it and you find ways to, all right, game right now is the highest average here's where we need to get better." since at least 1946. Both Shoop and Hudson have altered So rebuilding may take some time for their plans already this season. the new staff. Shoop's intent was to be a tough run"You take each project for what it's ning team that used play-action passes worth and you take what you have and you do what you can, the best you can to create big plays, but with an offensive with what you have and you move for- line that hasn't been consistently physiward," Hazell said when asked if this was cal enough to either open holes for a run program has turned into a larger rebuild- game or protect the quarterback to pass THE Numbers 12 4 22/6 5 Penn State's rank in all-time victories among FBS schools. The Nittany Lions' 728 wins are thirdmost in the Big Ten behind No. 1 Michigan (909) and No. 5 Ohio State (846). True freshman quarterbacks (since 1972) to start five games. After Saturday, Danny Etling joins Mark Herrmann (10), Brian Fox (eight) and Jeff George (six) in the exclusive club. The number of seniors on Purdue's roster vs. the number of seniors listed as starters in the two deeps for this week. Defenses Purdue's faced this year that rank in the top 11 in the FBS to date in 2013. MSU (1), Wisconsin (7), Cincy (8), OSU (10) and Iowa (11) all make the list. downfield, it's been a struggle. He's shifted a bit more to a spread-type attack with freshman quarterback Danny Etling, but that hasn't gotten much traction either because of that mediocre line and underclassmen receivers. When asked if he had to veer from his plan because of the personnel he inherited, Shoop was careful in his response. "We've got a lot of young guys. There's always going to be things we know our guys will grow into in time," he said. "Disappointment is not the right word. We are GoldanDBlack express • volume 24, express 10 • 1