Coach Hazell, in an effort to both win a few more football games and avoid the executioner, fired both his offensive and defensive coordinators this season. He promoted Terry Malone from tight ends' coach to offensive coordinator and pulled Ross Els out of the high school ranks (don't freak out, Els was the linebackers coach under Bo Pelini and was taking the year off after the Pelini staff was canned). I'll talk about what we might see out of Malone in a future article, but the biggest coaching question mark coming into the year is Els. How is he going to take the God-awful defense from last year and turn it into something respectable?
Purdue Football: Let's Talk Defensive Scheme!
