Everything seems new, shiny and optimistic at Purdue now that first-year coach Jeff Brohm is in charge.
It's a familiar song for Purdue, which hired Brohm after he went 30-10 in three seasons at Western Kentucky. But Purdue has hired and fired two others coaches (both in Year 4 of their regimes) since 2009.
Rutgers knows the tune well after replacing Kyle Flood with Chris Ash in December 2015. Ash won his first offseason convincingly, but went 2-10 with an undermanned team in his first season.
So Purdue -- which has three Big Ten wins in the last three years -- and Rutgers -- which has four in that same span -- will no doubt be looking at each other as a possible win in 2017.