Purdue Mentioned in Sports Illustrated!

The way this season has been going, I've almost stopped perusing the Sports Illustrated and ESPN college football sections, because Purdue has pretty much fallen off the radar. However, SI's College football guy Stewart Mandel did a piece about all his preseason preditions that went awry. I smell Boilermakers!

• [Joe] Tiller is a proven offensive mind and ... I'm as excited as anyone outside of West Lafayette to see his new wrinkles this season." (5/3/05)
Apparently those wrinkles involved turning a once-promising defense into one of the worst in the country. Also, as Tiller himself said this week in response to a question about offensive schemes, "The system is fine, but it's better when you've got a great player under center." Senator, I served with Kyle Orton. Kyle Orton was a friend of mine. Senator -- Brandon Kirsch -- you're no Kyle Orton.

Back in the national media, baby. You can read the whole article here.