Today, GoldandBlack.com continues a new weekly feature. We're calling it the Weekly Word.
Why? Because it has words, it's posted weekly and we're just that unimaginative. (Actual feedback from Week 1: Definitely like the content, but a new name would be useful.)
Anyway, here are some random thoughts for the week, most of which will be Purdue-related.
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LAST OF ITS KIND, HOPEFULLY
In the worst-case scenario this weekend, Purdue gets off its plane after flying 2,000 miles, a bunch of guys on this team that haven't flown that far in their lives — and sure as hell have never played a football game 4,500 feet above sea level —and find themselves a bit wobbly, a few time zones over. Then, they come out looking like it in a game that could end well after midnight their time.
In that worst-case scenario, it could lose, extending to three a streak of season-opening losses since Purdue's program's new beginning, only this time to a less formidable opponent than Louisville of two seasons ago or Northwestern of last year.
Purdue's traveling across the country to play Nevada, in Reno, in a game in which it has more to lose than gain.
This was not the current coach's nor the current administration's idea, nor should such things be from here on out.
