An Interview With: COACH DARRELL HAZELL 

Welcome to week two of Purdue football. The Boilermakers will be taking on Central Michigan this Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium. The kickoff is at 1:00. The game will be televised live at ESPN News.

 COACH HAZELL: Obviously a good start for us, and I thought our team did a great job in one area. I thought that was -- we talk about eliminating stress, and there was no stress on the sideline. I thought our coaches did a good job. I thought our players did a good job, especially when the game went back and forth when Western had scored. So I was real proud of that area of our football team.

 The other area I thought did a great job was we were able to manufacture, directly or indirectly, over 19 points in our special teams, and if we can continue to do that, that's going to bode well for us down the line.

 Really looking forward to getting back to game 2 here with Central Michigan, and all the preparation is underway, and our coaches have spent the last couple days getting ready for this contest on Saturday.

 Q. Speaking of special teams, why did you think Frankie was effective in the punt
return game on Saturday?

 COACH HAZELL: We always talk about in special teams punt return, kick return, more specifically, punt return, get the ball started. If you can get the ball started up the field, then you got a chance, if you have a good returner, to make people miss. And I thought our guys at the line of scrimmage held their guys up. So the first return you had, there was one guy that was within seven yards of him, the next closest guy was within 15 yards of the returner. So that's a great picture for that returner.

 Q. Purdue Athletics had posted a video after the game of you talking to the team after
the game, and you had said, "we're building this, don't forget it." What areas do you need to see growth in from week one to week two?

 COACH HAZELL: Every single area. I want to see more dominant play with our defensive front. I thought they did a good job, but I thought we needed to get to the quarterback a little bit more. And they're capable of doing that. We were off just a little bit, a couple of times where we had chances to potentially affect the quarterback's throwing motion.  I thought our pass lanes were probably a little bit too high up the field, so we'll correct those things. Obviously we need to tackle better. We missed some tackles on some of those big runs. So we need to tackle better.