Ben Standig is with us.

We're going to talk about David Blow.

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Let me tell all of you what I teased, which is I'm going to tell you something about David

Blow that maybe you didn't know, and then we'll get into it with Ben on this hire.

So David Blow was a quarterback at Purdue, and he was a very good quarterback in his final

season in 2018.

In fact, in a game early that season against Missouri, he set the Big Ten record for total yards in a game. He threw for 572 in a 40 to 37 lost to

Missouri, but he had a total of 590 yards, which was at that point

the Big 10 all-time total yardage record for a game. But in that season of 2018, they beat

undefeated number two Ohio State in West Lafayette, 49 to 20.

In that game, blow through for 378 in the win over the second ranked Buckeyes.

The boilers at that point were 3 and 3.

But I pulled up the game story ben and first of

all in that game jane haskins set an uh set an an ohio state record that still stands today

with 73 pass attempts in the game he was 49 of 73 for 470 yards in the loss. Blow, by the way,

25 of 43, 3.78, three touchdowns, no picks. But in the game recap, there are quotes from

Blow, but then there's this quote, quote, my main message is we have to treat this like it's life or death. You have to

have that type of mentality going into battle when someone's trying to knock you off. If you don't

come ready, this happens. Closed quote, said by the leading receiver in the game for Ohio State that day, or one of them,

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