Before Purdue coach Darrell Hazell left the podium at Big Ten media days last month, he was asked what needed to change in order for the program to remove itself from a three-year funk. During that time, the Boilermakers have won just two of 24 league games and the words "job security" have hovered over Hazell like a rain cloud.
Hazell, ever the optimist, insisted change was coming.
"I guess I don't look at it as a three-year funk," Hazell said. "I look at it as a growing process. A lot of times on the outside you can't see the things that are happening throughout the program where you're making progress.