Ending the “Purdue Mentality”

I’ve been a Purdue fan my whole life. I grew up in a Purdue family with a dad who graduated from Purdue and three older brothers who went there as well. When I was little I remember taking numerous two hour drives to West Lafayette to attend football and basketball games. We went to far more basketball games than football games, I did grow up in Indiana after all.

For as long as I can remember I’ve always thought Purdue can and will win a national title in basketball, and in my younger and more naive days I thought Purdue could win a national title in football in my lifetime. There’s a part of me that still believes that. Before Purdue can get to either one of those mountaintops there’s one…