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FOOTBALL Offensive Coordinator Gary Nord Defensive Coordinator Tim Tibesar Drive Ends Empty KCharters@GoldandBlack.com BY KYLE CHARTERS One of Purdue's most impres- yards in 19 plays against Ohio State Saturday, on a drive that spanned 10-and-a-half minutes starting in the first quarter and ending in the second when Ca- leb TerBush threw an intercep- tion into the end zone. "The unfortunate 10-and- a-half-minute drive," offensive sive drives of the season ended without the Boilermakers scoring a point. Purdue marched 80-plus well and we were kind of keeping them off the field. And the drive, I think it was 19 plays, in 10-and-a- half minutes and to not go down there and get any points was very deflating. But it also kept the defense fresh and kept them off the field. first- and second-and-goal from the 7-yard line but twice hand- ed to Antavian Edison for only minimal gain. "The first play that we ran On the drive, Purdue had " coordinator Gary Nord called it a day after Purdue's 29-22 over- time loss. "That drive is hard to stomach a little bit because you did some good things for the football team but you didn't fin- ish. At that point, we were six points ahead and needed to make it a two-score game be- cause the defense was playing and Caleb misread the front and as soon as he did it, he knew it, but flipped it out there and didn't give us a chance to hand to the guy we should have. We should have handed it off to Shavers and he would have gotten good posi- tive yardage on the inside. It was a mental (mistake) by Caleb. Edison on was designed to go to Edison," Nord said. "But we missed a veer block and the linebacker came over the top and hit him right in the hole. The next play should not have gone to Antavi- an. We have a read where we can either hand it off to Shavers or we could flip it to the outside, ac- cording to the look. And the look called for it to be handed off. We had a guy unblocked out there TerBush made another mis- take on the third down, when he passed into coverage, intend- ing a throw to tight end Gabe Holmes. But linebacker Ryan Shazier had the pass read per- fectly and tipped the ball to fel- low 'backer C.J. Barnett, who cor- ralled it in the end zone. " OFFENSIVE CHANGE UP Purdue played about 30 of its 69 snaps against Ohio State with two running backs, either in an I formation or split in the back- field. It was a change for the Boil- ermakers, who had used a more spread offense for much of the first six games of the season. "I kind of got mad at my- clock and keep the defense off the field some. So I said, 'We're not going to do all that fancy stuff at them, we're going to go downhill at them and make them tougher and bleed the clock out some and take some pressure off the defense. Redshirt freshman Robert Kugler made his first career start at right guard for the Boilermakers Saturday. Tom Campbell spread teams across the coun- try, and not to pinpoint anybody, but you take the Arizonas, Ari- zona States and Marshalls, and all their defenses are last. And that's not by coincidence, I don't think. You run your Jet package all the time and you run sideways all the time, it kind of makes your whole team soft. So I felt like it was best for our football team to get back to some bread-and-butter things and run the ball downhill. "Because you look at these ' " self over the last couple weeks against Michigan and Wisconsin and felt like I kind of got into this national trend of everybody run- ning sideways and trying to trick them all the time, running all the zone-read stuff, and kind of got away from what my belief is, well for the first 59-plus minutes of regulation Saturday, but that last minute hurt. Taking over with 47 seconds Purdue's defense played very ONE BIG PLAY said. "And that's to run downhill at them and have muscle plays in there and be able to control the " Nord left, Ohio State marched into po- sition to score a touchdown and added a game-tying two-point conversion to send the game into overtime. The play that hurt the most, defensive coordinator Tim Tibe- GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 8 • 24