Joe Tiller
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"Joe Tiller" is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Wyoming from 1991 to 1996 and Purdue University from 1997 to 2008, compliling a career college football record of 126–92–1. Tiller is known as one of the innovators of the spread offense.

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Particularly turning the ball over where we turned it over, three times in the red zone in the first half, ... Particularly to turn the ball over and have it ruled as a touchback. I think it was 1970 the last time we were going in to score and fumbled into and out of the end zone for a touchback.

Another huge step for our program is that we will have a rebuilt practice field that matches our game field. This will allow us the opportunity to prepare as a team under the most ideal conditions.

Some people refer to it as the Purdue rule, which is a block by a guy, to an adjacent lineman, below the knees, ... I've seen teams continue to do that this year and so far I've yet to see a call made reflecting that particular block.

We feel we addressed positions where we have immediate needs. All of these guys are expected to come in and compete for starting positions right away.

I'll say the same thing I did about Edwards and Pollard. If that's where their heart leads them, then that's what they should do. And we wish him the best of luck.

We felt like coming into the game that if he has a lot of time to sit back there, he can be pretty accurate. If he doesn't have a lot of time, he can be not so accurate.

We looked for something to give us a spark and hoped that maybe it would work,'' said Tiller, who wasn't pleased with the accuracy of Kirsch's passes for most of the game.

From what Bill told me, I didn't have to worry.

He did a great job of managing the game and executing the offense. We're always looking for perfection, but he played awfully well once again.