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Joe Tiller Pulls One for the Road

Oct 6, 2008 – 8:19 AM
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Brian Cook

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Joe Tiller is, of course, retiring at the end of the year. Either that or he's transplanting his brain into Danny Hope's unsuspecting body, as Hope was clearly cloned from one of Tiller's jowls and set upon this earth to perpetuate Purdue's manifset destiny to go 8-5 every year. But either way ol' walrus eyes won't be prowling the sidelines at Ross-Ade any more, and that's a little sad.

So it's good that Tiller got to bench one last senior quarterback:
Purdue has switched quarterbacks in the fourth quarter of its matchup with Penn State (the Boilermakers are down 20-6), pulling record-setter Curtis Painter in favor of Joey Elliott. Head coach Joe Tiller threatened to make this move two weeks ago against Central Michigan before Painter responded nicely in a victory.
Painter joins a long line of Purdue benchees from Brandon Kirsch to Kyle Orton to whoever the poor sap was in Tiller's first year in West Lafayette. This presumably ends his Heisman campaign, too.

I wonder if Mel Kiper is hastily deleting all traces of "Curtis Painter is a first round draft pick and better than Chase Daniel" from ESPN.com yet?
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