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ry to the offensive line. They're start- ing to block better and better week. "So the more each time you can see it, the easier it is for you back there. The Boiler- " Even when he hasn't been playing, Marve has tried to stay energized on the sidelines. He didn't play a snap at Ohio State, but when Akeem Hunt returned a kickoff a hundred yards for a TD, Marve celebrated. passes on three series against the Gophers. But in the coaches' "quarterback stats, tipped balls and dropped passes, Marve was nearly perfect. Three of his passes were dropped, and he threw another away just before getting drilled on a blitz. And in the crucial pre-snap " which factor in says he's made strides. "I feel like I practice phenom- enal," he said. "Now, I'm starting Tom Campbell makers now need those elements — the mobility, the arm strength, the decision-mak- ing — to lead to points. T erBush struggled in Big Ten play to do just that. In four league read phase of playing quarter- back — something coaches have talked about as TerBush being the best among Purdue's QBs — and in executing in practice, Marve to kind of bounce around like the ACL never happened. So I'm feel- ing like I did against Notre Dame again, the EKU game early in the season. It's by far the most I've known, protection-wise, picking up the blitz, seeing what you're in, trying to manipulate the defense in different things I need. I'm start- ing to feel more and more com- fortable, but that's also beneficia- Purdue scored, whether touch- down or field goal, on six of them. Three times, those scoring drives were on Purdue's first series. In Marve's seven drives against games, TerBush directed 40 drives. thing happen late in the fourth." Marve hopes to be in the game late in the fourth. Hope said on Tuesday he wasn't sure if TerBush would play against the Nittany Lions in a simi- lar rotation role that Marve had been in before this week. Part of that could depend on whether Marve's body holds up. Weeks ago, Hope voiced con- cern about Marve's stamina, rac- ing over the field and still running an offense efficiently, let alone worry about the knee buckling. When asked this week if Hope thought Marve could play a full game, he said, "We're going to find out. choice. "That's what I've been training for," he said. "That's Marve said he has no " Big Ten competition, Purdue has produced points three times. "The goal on offense is to how we score points, but we need to score more points and put our- selves in positions to make some- " Marve said. "I don't know care score points, so that's what I'm in to, why I've been doing every- thing I've been doing. … I just want to play the whole game. I want the whole game to be rolling. We don't need no speech at halftime being down 20 points. It's hard to beat anybody like that. We've just got to keep fighting and make some- thing happen in the fourth. We have to get to the point where we can let our players just go out there and just roll. RADIO Your ultimate Monday morning home for the very latest in Boilermaker football 10 a.m., Mondays Click here to listen GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 9 • 18 and play. If anything I learned through the ACLs, (it is) learn from the past and let the future take care of itself. If you don't want to grind right now, you shouldn't be doing whatever you're doing in life. I just want to keep working. What's gotten me this far is posi- tive attitude and (the ability to) keep working hard. That's what I plan on doing. Whatever happens Saturday, I know I'll be 100 per- cent going at it. "This is the time to step up " j