Daniels, who goes to every home football game, peruses the crowd and often stops in to sit with fansgetty images
The changes that Purdue President Mitch Daniels has made to the school's sports during his six years in office have been "swift and sure," according to Dana Hunsinger Benbow of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Just months after sports betting became legal in Indiana, Daniels and his board "passed a policy that prohibits students, faculty and staff from betting on Purdue games or athletes." When talk of football coach Jeff Brohm leaving Purdue for Louisville arose last year, Daniels "wrote a secret letter, just a little nudge telling Brohm how much Purdue wanted him to stay." He "helped get alcohol sales approved at football and basketball games," and he "makes his way by the beer garden to check on Boiler Gold sales." He "goes to every home football game, peruses the crowd and stops in to sit with fans." He also "wants to move the Purdue-Indiana Old Oaken Bucket football game to Lucas Oil Stadium." Meanwhile, Daniels is "adamant that the 'IU Sucks' chant that Purdue students yell out at games" towards rival Indiana, "no matter the opponent they're up against, is wrong." Daniels: "It needs to go and it is going." He said that the chant will "no longer take place at home basketball games this season" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 11/1).
