A New Hope

A good effort last weekend in ND, the offense wasn’t as impressive as you would like but I thought that Marve did a great job of moving them up and down the field. Unfortunately it looks like we have seen the end of Robert Marve in a Purdue football uniform as he appears to have torn his ACL…..again. The 2 QB system was destined to fail in my opinion but I really assumed that Marve would be the one to win out.

Our “new hope” though is on the defensive side of the ball, where the boys looked good at ND in shutting down an offense that put up 50 points against Navy the week before. They were one blown delay of game call from getting off the field with under 2:00 to go. I think that the defense will make us competitive and will keep us in games the rest of the year. In honor of this “new hope” we will be having Star Wars themed pancakes at our kegs ‘n eggs breakfast tailgate this weekend. (All right, it’s a stretch but Paula got me these AWESOME Star Wars pancake molds and I have to find a way to use them at a tailgate.)

The opponent this week should present little challenge as they dropped their home opener to Brock Spack’s I-AA Illinois State team. What is it with Michigan teams losing to I-AA teams at home? (NEVER miss a chance to rib Michigan about losing to Appalachian State.) I suspect that we will see a lot of Rob Henry by the second half on Saturday.

As mentioned above we are doing Kegs ‘n Eggs breakfast tailgate this weekend. We will have eggs, sausage, and pancakes along with a Bloody Mary bar and mimosas. I expect the tailgate to be a low key affair as attendance is going to be sparse for this titanic struggle.

We will plan on meeting in the W lot on Saturday morning, hopefully towards the front of the lot just like last year. The W lot is across from the Slater Hill and the Stone Cold Tailgating Club spot is marked by the gold square. We will be sporting our custom flag this year which sports our “Old School Boilermakers” motif similar to our cups.

Saturday September 15, 2012
8:00 a.m. Depart for the W Lot
8:15 a.m. Arrive W lot/Set up Tailgate
11:15 p.m. Depart for Stadium
12:00 p.m. Kick Off

Eric and his parents will be departing from the house at 8:00 to ensure that we have two adjacent spots. If anyone else would like to meet at the house they are welcome to but it is not necessary. We have room to transport up to 7 people from the house in the ambulance and Element.