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and they did. I know they and I were all hopeful we'd get this quick pay back, and it didn't occur. But this is not the time to waver in the plan, if you really want to get there. Purdue has had a history of peaks and valleys, and sometimes those valleys can be rather long because we allow current reality to pull us back, and we get into this hand-wringing mode and we can't get out of it. I don't want to see us do that. "I think that we made that conscious decision to invest in football a year ago, and the objective is to get back to Pasadena, and we're not going to back away from that. That's exactly what we said we wanted to accomplish. We recruited a guy who was in demand, has a strong pedigree and an experience of both building and maintaining success in a program. We gave him the resources to assemble a staff and a review of their pedigree is pretty impressive. … Our investment decision carried with it a recognition that we would have to look at the entire program and be willing to make changes and stay the course then if we were not exactly where we wanted to be in the first year. We said Tom Campbell we were going to build the program Though athletic director Morgan Burke said he was "disappointed" with Purdue's with a solid foundation, discipline, 1-11 season, he preached the importance of staying the course during an interhard work, talent and belief in the view two days after the 56-36 loss to Indiana. plan. We're not going to be shortact, gives you the opportunity to succeed. term in our view. We're not short"Everybody is disappointed right now, from the term investors. We're not just going to flip the house. players, to the fans to the staff. None of us are hap- We're going to stay the course. py, including the AD's wife. But I'm particularly sad "At the same time, Darrell and his staff, if you believe for the seniors because I think they invested in the in the cycle of plan, do, check, act, need to sit back afchange. … ter the recruiting season and say, 'What worked? What "(The) second group I'm really sad for is the fans. I didn't?' Do we run schemes that weren't as successful asked them to come out and support, (and) they did. as we would have liked? Or was it not a matter of havSome cases they came back because they'd been away ing the talent level that you need to be successful?' from the family. I asked them to help me monetarily, They need to do that, continually assess the program. 24 IllustrateD volume 24, issue 3 f