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take a step back. I couldn't get complacent and accept it
that I wasn't going to be the guy because I owe it to them.
I'm so afraid to be unprepared, and I'm so afraid to let my
brothers down that even when all seemed lost, I knew that
I had to continue to push because I knew at some point I
would get an opportunity and when it happened, I needed
to be ready for it."
He was.
And it changed the course of Purdue's season and, may-
be, the program's future.
'BREAKTHROUGH'
A wall in Purdue's locker room is plastered with a mu-
Tom Campbell
When Appleby heard from Darrell Hazell that he was starting
for the first time, he told the second-year coach, "Let's go
make it happen. Let's have a blast."
