Three years after playing for a Big Ten title, the Purdue Boilermakers are starting over.

They hope to snap the FBS' second-longest losing streak at 11, want to prove last season's 1-11 mark was the aberration and are counting on a new coaching staff and a flurry of transfers to quickly restore the luster to the Cradle of Quarterbacks.

It's quite a responsibility for new coach Barry Odom but he says he is already seeing progress.

“The habits are starting to show up,” he said early in summer camp. “We're not making the same mistake two days in a row. We're seeing some physicality at the line of scrimmage, both sides, and that's good to see.”

Odom knows the signs after putting UNLV's moribund program on the national map with the first back-to-back bowls in school history.

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