Joe Tiller is, of course, retiring at the end of the year. Either that or he's transplanting his brain into Danny Hope's unsuspecting body, as Hope was clearly cloned from one of Tiller's jowls and set upon this earth to perpetuate Purdue's manifset destiny to go 8-5 every year. But either way ol' walrus eyes won't be prowling the sidelines at Ross-Ade any more, and that's a little sad. So it's good that Tiller got to bench one last senior quarterback:
Purdue has switched quarterbacks in the fourth quarter of its matchup with Penn State (the Boilermakers are down 20-6), pulling record-setter Curtis Painter in favor of Joey Elliott. Head coach Joe Tiller threatened to make this move two weeks ago against Central Michigan before Painter responded nicely in a victory.Painter joins a long line of Purdue benchees from Brandon Kirsch to Kyle Orton to whoever the poor sap was in Tiller's first year in West Lafayette. This presumably ends his Heisman campaign, too.
I wonder if Mel Kiper is hastily deleting all traces of "Curtis Painter is a first round draft pick and better than Chase Daniel" from ESPN.com yet?
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10-06-2008 @ 10:04AM
Mark Hasty said...
FTR, Purdue's QB in 1997 was Billy Dicken, although Drew Brees saw a fair amount of action that season.
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10-17-2008 @ 11:23AM
Ken said...
Drew Brees did not "see a fair amount of action" in 1997. Billy Dicken was the quarterback, with Brees seeing significant action in only the season-opening loss at Toledo.
Anyways, I am glad to read that people are as sick of Curtis Painter as I am. I am a DIE-HARD Boilermaker, and am sick and tired of dying-hard with Painter. He does not deserve to hold Drew Brees' jock strap, much less be mentioned in the same recordbook. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BENCH CURTIS PAINTER!!!