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p u b l i s h e r
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ON THE COVER
Coach Darrell Hazell didn't
change expression a lot on
the sidelines during the
Boilermakers' difficult 2013
campaign. Now, the coach is
pointing everything toward
finishing out the 2014 recruiting class and trying to
improve the football program.
Cover photo by Tom Campbell
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The Big Stretch
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ontext is important when looking
at Tom Campbell's image of Darrell
Hazell. If you don't have it right, you
might think the coach is looking to the
heavens wondering what went wrong
in 2013. I am sure that could have been
in his thought wheelhouse a time or to
in the past four months, but never did
we see that publicly from the first-year
Boilermaker coach.
Hazell was his usual stoic, if not upbeat, self. Outwardly, he never wavered
from his confidence level or the trust
he has in his plan for his coaches and
players to get this turned around. And, as
you will read on Pages 8-10, these traits
seem to be prerequisites for getting the
ship righted, at least if you talk with two
guys who navigated their way from early catastrophe to a place on the podium
as Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez and Iowa's
Kirk Ferentz did.
Yes, the question being
asked by just about everyone is how long is it going
to take to rebuild? That query is also
rhetorical in nature, because there is an
underlying impatience in this impatient
world we live in. It is going to take time
— we all know that. How much time?
That is anyone's guess.
The difficult thing about the 2013
season was that fans were left with little clear signs that progress was made,
at least to the untrained eye. That perceived lack of progress is the rub, at
least in the short term, for a fan base
that tuned out for much of the last half
of the 2013 season. Keeping Purdue
fans interested enough to buy tickets
and come to games will likely go hand
in hand with how fast football gets
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