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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue preps for No. 21 Michigan

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In this week’s edition of Gold and Black Radio, GoldandBlack.com’s Tom Dienhart and Dub Jellison and host Derek Schultz talk about the latest in Purdue football as the Boilermakers prepare to head to Ann Arbor for a battle with No. 21 Michigan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvnxFxnlZM

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Two Questions on Purdue football

(excerpt from Tom Dienhart’s 3-2-1 column)

1 – What happened on Ryan Browne‘s fateful fumble?

It’s a play that Purdue fans won’t soon forget, taking a place in the program’s infamous archive of heartache.

The set up: Game tied, 24-24; 1:06 to go; Purdue has the ball at its 30-yard line. Let’s have OC Josh Henson pick up the story from here.

“So, obviously, what you don’t want to do is rip three straight incompletions, they’ve got the ball back with 54 seconds and two timeouts,” said Henson. “Because then it becomes advantage them very quickly. And so what we were looking to do was throw a high-percentage RPO with a run and execute it.

“I was hoping to get five, six yards on the first play to see what their mentality was going to be, if they were going to call a timeout and they’re trying to conserve time, or they were just gonna let us run the clock. And if they were, then we would start moving on with our two minute drill to go score and win the game.

“Obviously, we didn’t execute it in a catastrophic way. I’ve got no more to say about that. I’m not going to talk about the little details of it in the media. But yeah, wasn’t good.”

2 – Why did Purdue close its practice to media on Monday?

They had been open all season. But Odom said there was nothing to hide. The practice started later and was structured differently than other Monday practices, per the Boiler boss.

“We weren’t trying to hide anything,” said Odom. “So, I don’t want you to read into it why we closed practice. We didn’t do anything crazy.”

So, there’s that.

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