New Purdue AD Mocks Indiana, Overlooks January Title
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- Tommy McClelland, newly hired Purdue athletic director, told an audience 'we are here to win championships' and 'If you don't want to win championships, go to Indiana'
- The remark appeared to forget that Indiana won the CFP national championship in January, framing the defending champions as a program beneath Purdue's ambitions
Why it matters: For a new Big Ten athletic director whose job is to recruit and elevate Purdue, publicly punching at the cross-state program that just won a national title is an avoidable branding stumble — it hands Indiana's program free motivation and makes McClelland's early tenure a headline for the wrong reason.
