One of Purdue's top choices for a new athletic director in Josh Whitman, a Lafayette native and up-and-coming AD candidate with a lot of new, innovative ideas was hired away by Illinois. He was a favored choice by many including Jeff Washburn of the Lafayette Journal & Courier. With him off the board any other name is basically speculation at this point.
Those Illini: They take our Cannon, they ruin our basketball season, and now this. Maybe they are a rival.
Obviously, Purdue is still very early in the process to replace Morgan Burke. We don't even know what they are looking for in a candidate.