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GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 25, EXPRESS 14 • 10 BY STACY CLARDIE SClardie@GoldandBlack.com A ll of Purdue's team-selected MVPs from 2014 had something to prove. Akeem Hunt lost his starting running back spot in the spring to Raheem Mostert. Paul Griggs watched as coaches brought in a fifth-year transfer to compete for his field-goal kick- ing job, obviously looking to replace the incumbent. And Landon Feichter was benched during the middle of the season — after a string of five consecutive double-digit tackling games. Each player, though, resound- ingly responded. And produced MVP seasons. "It's a team vote, so we let the masses make the decision. I think they voted well," Coach Darrell Hazell said Sunday after the post- season banquet that revealed the winners. "I thought those guys re- ally played well down the stretch, all three of those guys, Akeem, Landon and Griggs. So I was pleased with the voting." Once Mostert was benched af- ter the season's fourth game and Hunt moved back into the starting role, Hunt thrived. In those final sev- en games, Hunt rushed for 770 yards and a whopping 5.4 yards per carry. He finished the season just short of the first 1,000-yard effort of his career — at any level — and that had him "bummed out," but he also made sure it didn't sour the overall individual season. "It didn't turn out how we wanted to with win-loss column, but I can still be proud of what I brought to Purdue Picks MVPs F O OT BA L L : N E W S A N D N OT E S PRESENTS www.MeetYouAtArnis.com LAFAYETTE • INDIANAPOLIS • GREENWOOD Visit one of our 18 Indiana locations Meet You At Arni's TM Celebrates Purdue's Student-Athletes SERVING BOILER FANS FOR 50 YEARS World Famous Pizza, Salads, Sandwiches Antoine Miles Redshirt Freshman, Major in Communications Miles, a defensive end from Canton Ohio, was one of 47 players on the Boilermaker football team to make coach Darrell Hazell's "A-Players" list for the spring. Players can qualify for the list, which was originated from Hazell's decree of "A Players Must Get A's" by getting a 3.0 average or better for the semester. The Boilermakers had 40 players make the list in the fall. The team posted a 2.78 GPA for the spring, up from a 2.65 in the fall, and improved its cumulative GPA to 2.77, up from 2.75 prior to the spring semester. It is the highest team GPA for football in at least 20 years. Tom Campbell Landon Feichter earned his second team MVP at Purdue, joining first-time winners Akeem Hunt and Paul Griggs as the player-chosen picks for the team's most important players in 2014. the team," Hunt said Sunday after the postseason banquet, the event that revealed the award-winners. "I felt great, a lot of accomplishment, a lot of just hard work and a lot of improvement from last year. My