It might be easy to forget now, after years of dreadful performances, but Purdue was once one of the most exciting teams in the country.
Back in Joe Tiller's "basketball-on-grass" heyday, especially when Drew Brees was throwing the ball all over Ross-Ade Stadium, the Boilermakers were not only competitive, they were fun to watch.
In recent years, things have been dismal, with losses piling up and fans staying away in droves during the disastrous tenures of Danny Hope and Darrell Hazel. It's one thing to be bad. It's another to be irrelevant and unwatchable.