VIDEO: A Walk Down Iowa-Purdue Memory Lane

How true, how true.

When he was an unblockable one man wrecking crew, on a tanking team, he was asked after a close loss why the team wasn’t winning. He’s sitting in the locker room, shirt off, answering questions. Without missing a beat he said, “lousy defensive line play.” When they — stunned — asked what had to happen for the team to get on a winning streak again, he said “better play from the defensive line.” The pattern continued throughout the interview.

Without question, he was objectively playing better than anyone else on the field (at least on defense. Remember this was the year Dwight had the ab injury and was slowed up). But he answered every question as if he had single handedly let down the team and needed to be working harder as a solution.

I loved that then, and I still do. His philosophy? “If the team isn’t winning, then as a member of the team I start by pointing the finger at myself.” Yeah, privately I hope he was kicking butt for guys loafing in practice, but publicly? Problems start and end with me. I didn’t play a perfect game.

Awesome leadership, awesome character. I still remember where I was when I watched that interview.

This is Iowa-centric, so the wins are our wins. Purdue can get their own damned wins.

Site   Games  Win %  Wins  Losses  Ties

Any     81    42.6%   33     45     3

Home    40    52.5%   20     18     2

Away    41    32.9%   13     27     1

The wind was cold as shit that day! I went to get hot chocolate twice. Both times, Greene went BEAST and I missed them. Everyone in my section demanded I leave everytime we got the ball the rest of the game.