If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. – Robert South
Tyler Trent is the spirit of Purdue.
I chose to use the present tense rather than the past because even though Tyler’s fight against bone cancer is finished, it is his spirit that will carry on. Just 15 months ago we were learning who this young man was. It was Mike Carmin who found him and his friend Josh Seals camped out next to Ross-Ade Stadium the night before Purdue hosted Michigan. Carmin told his story that first night, and it happened because he had decided to go past the stadium on a lark after covering a high school game.