Chark quote on Etling

somehow les miles complaints will end up in here

My god how did he not get touches Untill TTU. Ok ball iced em and maybe there's more to it. There better be more to it because miles shoudve intervened if it was some vendetta that ball had.

Chark was money last night.

My response to Chark is..........."U Smart"

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When you are working with Danny if he messes up, he takes credit. When you mess up, he still takes credit for it.

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A simple, but accurate description of a real leader, in sports or not.

I'm beginning to like Chark a lot

Article from his Purdue days by Josh Moyer

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Etling became the highest-rated recruit that Purdue has signed since ESPN started keeping track in 2006. He was a four-star prospect in the 2013 class, the 12th-best pocket-passer in the nation, and has played the role of dream-catcher for a reeling Purdue fan base.

Purdue fans have spent years wondering when the Motor City Bowl and the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl wouldn't constitute a "good" season. The Boilermakers haven't been ranked in the top 25 at the end of a season since 2003, back when Kyle Orton lined up under center and when Etling's parents were pushing their son toward tennis.

Etling didn't play football until he offered a challenge to his mother in fourth grade: If I win this next tennis tournament, you have to let me play football. She agreed, thinking there's no way her son would win the first-place trophy.

The determined youngster signed up for football that summer.

He'd attend football camps at the local Division III college with few fundamentals, few physical skills and an eager attitude. He'd go home with a handful of drills, practice incessantly -- his father would often come home to bang-bang-bang from Danny tossing footballs against the house -- and return to another camp with those drills perfected.

"Maybe he wasn't the biggest guy, the strongest guy or the fastest guy," said his father, Joe Etling. "But he'd always put the work in. I almost saw it transform into kind of a blue-collar, roll-up-your-sleeves work situation."

Danny, an Eagle Scout, doesn't do things halfway. During the bye weekend, when most players return home, attend a high school football game, pose for photos and meet with old friends, Etling lingered on campus and organized extra drills for himself and his receivers.

Etling knows this team, and this fan base, are counting on him. ("You can just feel it," he said.) He was forced to start wearing a Purdue ballcap between classes because students kept stopping him along the way to chat. He loves talking to fans -- it almost reminds him of those Fridays beneath the lights -- but he'd draw perilously close to showing up late.

He's a cause for excitement in West Lafayette, which is roughly two hours from his hometown. He knows that. He knows he can't succeed against Nebraska by playing the way he did against Northern Illinois in the third quarter, when his adrenaline surged and he launched every football as hard as possible. He knows this offense goes through him. He knows if he struggles, his team struggles.

He studies Brees now instead of pretending to be him. But he still likes to think back on those fall days in the backyard every now and then, so he can fully appreciate where he is now -- and where he's heading.

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somehow les miles complaints will end up in here

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Thanks for the reminder

Idk how Danny didn't see the field bs Wisconsin or how Chark is just now getting targets. Miles' offense makes me wanna vomit. But last night was def better