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PRESENTS FOOTBALL: NEWS AND NOTES Looking For A Spark A day after Purdue's loss to Min- BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF Boilermakers held a team meeting, trying to diagnose and then fix what ailed them. Senior captain Kawann Short nesota, its fourth straight, the thought the meeting went well. "I feel like it helped a lot, defensive tackle said Tuesday, three days after Purdue lost 44-28 in Min- nesota, "as far as talking to the guys without the coaches around and having everyone' say something without biting your tongue and say what you thought about the team. We got a lot of good responses. s input. You could day change-up for Danny Hope and Co. The fourth-year coach met with media, as is standard proce- dure, but kept all but one player — and the entire assistant coaching staff — off limits to reporters. "We're busy in the middle of something," Hope said Sunday The meeting was part of a Sun- " afternoon. "That's why. It doesn't have anything to do with dodging " the Danny Hope changed his Sunday schedule in hopes of getting his team more focused. or avoiding, we've got some things we're doing (Sunday) as a team to pull ourselves together. normal, but Sunday's was differ- ent. Following the four-game skid that has significantly changed the outlook of Purdue's season, it was much more intense, he said. "Mainly, when we have those Short says team meetings are " meetings, it's the seniors and the leaders just talking, "Sunday, we were trying to get feedback from what the guys were thinking in the room. … We wanted to know, from the younger " Short said. Tom Campbell to the media on Sunday, as they usually are, there is no Coordina- tors Corner feature in this week's edition of Gold and Black Express. Because Purdue's assistant coaches were not made available CONTENT NOTICE guys to the older guys, what was going wrong and hear how they' about fixing it." d go ing to bounce back vs. Penn State, the first of four games to close out the regular season. The Boilers need to win three to quality for the post- season for the second straight year. That' Purdue is now hop- tives out of the season. "We had to identify some ar- their best chance to sal- vage at least some posi- eas of our play that were very ob- vious to me and the coaches that was not up to standard, said, "and address them and try to put our heads together to find out what we had to do to play much better. " Hope " streak has left questions about the status of its head coach. BURKE ISSUES STATEMENT Purdue's four-game losing Katie Griffin—Avon, Ind. Management Katie is one of six volleyball players to earn academic All-Big Ten honors in the Spring 2011 semester. In all, 59 Boilermaker fall athletes earned this honor. GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 9 • 26 d be athletic director, Morgan Burke, is- sued a statement Monday evening, after multiple interview requests. So much so that the school's program has high expectations for the 2012 season," the statement read. "We have worked very hard "Everyone around our football LINK TO PURDUE'S 2012 SEASON STATS