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VOLUME 23, EX 13 • NOV. 28, 2012 Inside | The Coaching Candidates 6-7 | Patrick Higgins 10-11 Recruiting 29-30 | Basketball notes 33-37 search firm to find candidates for Purdue's recent head football coach opening, but he's hustled the last few days to contact poten- tial replacements for Danny Hope. Guidance is coming from some with THE SEARCH IS ON No time is being wasted. SClardie@GoldandBlack.com BY STACY CLARDIE Morgan Burke may not be using a Purdue ties — Colts general manager Ryan Grigson and Texans GM Rick Smith — and others with extensive football knowledge, former Colts president Bill Polian. But, ultimately, Burke knows what he wants in Purdue's next football coach. Someone with head coaching experience. Someone who is offensive-minded. Someone who has similar schemes to Morgan Burke fired football coach Danny Hope on Sunday, and now he's revving up the search to find a replacement who can lead Purdue back to the Rose Bowl. the ones Purdue already has in place. Someone who can re-energize a fan base that has continued to decrease since the end of Joe Tiller's run. And Burke says he is willing to pay for those qualities. Hope often grumbled about compen- lowest in the Big Ten and on a national level, and his assistant coaches also weren't paid as much as others in the league. Burke said the lower compensation sation for him and his staff. His salary, a mini- mum of $950,000 in 2012, was among the package for Hope wasn't because of the administration's unwillingness to invest in football. He said he based the package on other people who were similarly situation — a coach moving into a Big Ten job for the Tom Campbell first time. "I don't think there's any resource com- THE NUMBERS .448 his staff in 2012. 4.6 2.6 bowl victories, something they will be shooting for this year. 1998 mitment question," Burke said. Burke already has worked to mobilize funds to boost the commitment to the new staff, Gold and Black learned. Purdue will be ready to invest at least $4.5 million range for its football staff, compared to about $2.5 million that the staff will make in 2012. Purdue. It was second-most successful stint of a Purdue coach dating back to 1982. Danny Hope's winning percentage during his four-year tenure at sation package for its next football coach and staff. The last year the Boil- ermakers were able to pull off back-to-back what you have to do is compete. We're pre- pared to do that (monetarily)," Burke said. And so the search moves forward for a "We know in the Big Ten and nationally coach who can lead Purdue back to among the Big Ten's most competitive teams. That was what many thought could happen this season with a roster stacked with returning players with starting experi- ence and a Leaders Division without two of its top programs bowl eligible. It's what Hope thought should happen. Especially after a 3-1 start that included only a last-second loss to Notre Dame on the road, prompting Hope to say that his team GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 13 • 1 The salary total, in millions of dollars, that Purdue is putting together for a total compen- The approximate dollar amount, in millions, that was paid Coach Danny Hope and