I mean, basically Purdue won last night’s college football national championship.
In Ed Orgeron’s first two seasons in Baton Rouge he was still considered a shaky hire. he entered with a 16-27 overall career record and had famously failed at Mississippi a decade earlier, going 10-25 in a three year period. He served as a solid interim in 2013 at USC, going 6-2, but when LSU hired him full time there were some definite questions. He needed to stabilize things in a hurry, so he turned to Purdue.
Specifically, he turned to transfer Danny Etling. Etling was the former starter at Purdue that needed to be De-Shooped for a year, but he was ready to go in 2016 when Orgeron took over, again as an interim, after Les Miles was fired.