CHICAGO, Ill. ? In his initial team meeting after being named the head coach at Purdue on Dec. 5, Darrell Hazell challenged his team for the first time.
?Purdue is always a team perceived in the middle of the Big Ten,? said Hazell, who came from Kent State. ?Never up here or down there. It?s going to take a lot of work, but we?re going to climb ourselves out of the middle.?
The Boilermakers have had a winning Big Ten record just once over the last nine seasons, a 5-3 mark in 2006.
Hazell knows the Big Ten landscape from his seven seasons on Jim Tressel?s staff at Ohio State.
?Coach Tressel was a big influence on me,? Hazell said. ?The great decisions he made on game day, when the bullets are flying. I learned a lot from Jim Tressel.?
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