Purdue coach Ryan Walters and three players — Hudson Card, Kydran Jenkins and Gus Hartwig — represented the Boilermakers at Big Ten Media Days on Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS — If there was a phrase that could sum up Purdue's appearance at Big Ten Media Days on Tuesday, it would easily be "chip on our shoulders." That was repeated by coach Ryan Walters all afternoon long at Lucas Oil Stadium.
"As much as you try not to read the opinions of your program or yourself or your players, you still hear it," Walters said. "If you're not reading it, your friends are or your folks are or it gets back to you. I'd be naive not to address it with the team and not talk about the elephant in the room. "We try to keep a chip on our shoulder, try to put our head down and work," Jenkins said. "When we break it down, we say, 'We work.' That's the mentality we're going to use going into the season."Keeping an entire coaching staff intact is almost impossible in today's era of college football. Yet Walters was able to retain his staff for a second season.
For the players, it provides some much-needed familiarity. Hartwig says it's a huge benefit having such a strong relationship with the staff.The Purdue-Indiana rivalry is alive and well Maybe Purdue-Indiana doesn't carry the same weight as a rivalry game between Michigan and Ohio State or Auburn and Alabama, but it is incredibly important to those involved.
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