Barring a very surprising turnaround in the final 10 games of the year the end is near for Darrell Hazell. It cannot come soon enough, either. The thief of West Lafayette has robbed enough money from the athletic department coffers and Saturday showed he cannot prepare this team to beat even middle-of-the-road AAC teams. It will only get worse during the Big Ten season, so we begin a countdown to November 27.
On that day 74 days from now Mike Bobinski’s tenure as athletic director gets real. On that day he needs to decide if Darrell Hazell returns for 2017 and if we can begin digging out from this subterranean crater that Purdue football is in.