ASU fan here who has watched every game. Do I think Purdue will cover, prob. The loss of Walter, H. Hill, and Stewart is a lot to overcome against a good Purdue squad. H. Hill is our starting RB who got kicked of the team a couple days ago. While our running game is not very good, the loss of Hill hurts. He runs hard and now we have ZERO depth. We're starting one of our recievers (Burgess) at RB and one of our LB's is our #2 RB. UHHHHHH. Our two best RB's were lost in week 4 (Wade, whose awesome, got in trouble and Randy Hill blew is knee out) so now have nothing. Riccardo Stewart is the heart and soul of our defense but we are used to playing without him as he is hurt often. Our backup QB, Sam Keller, is solid. He showed great poise and ability against UofA when he came in late in the 4th quarter (down 14 pts) and almost led us to victory (dropped pass away from OT). Burgess is good as well as he ran for 150+ yards agianst Stanford in his only start. They are both sleepers..... Don't worry, the loss of defensive coordinator, Brent Guy, is def not a distraction. He is awful. How he got a head coaching job in div 1A fball is beyond me. He nearly got fired last year but Koetter saved his a@@ and forced him to change is defensive scheme. All in all, I owuld play Purdue -7 becasue our leaders on both sides of the ball are out to go along with the fact Koetter is piss poor on the road and in big games- VERY AWFUL. I hope the devil's pull it out but they have a lot to overcome. GO DEVILS!!
