As most of you know, this past Saturday was Coach Tiller’s last football game of being head coach here at Purdue University. His official retirement date is on December 31st, 2008. The team came out with a big win to end their season, as well as Tiller’s coaching career. Coach Tiller never lost an Old Oaken Bucket game in Ross Ade Stadium. And with the past 11 meetings with the Hoosiers, he has a record of 9-2. Throughout Tiller’s 11 years of coaching here, he has accomplished a lot within the football program at Purdue. Here are just a few of those accomplishments.
1. Joe Tiller has brought a lot of integrity and dedication to the football program at Purdue as the head coach for the past 12 years.
2. Over the past 121 years, Coach Tiller has the winningest record of all the football coaches in the program.
3. Tiller has brought his team to the top 25 nationally ranked teams for 80 weeks, which is the same amount of time as Coach Jack Mollenkopf.
4. 10 out of the 11 years at head coach, he took his team to postseason games.
5. 64 of his athletes have been drafted in the National Football League
6. 6 All American athletes and 2 Academic All Americans have played under Coach Tiller.
7. Coach Tiller holds the school record of student athletes earning Academic All Big Ten recognition. (15 in 2006, 14 in 2007)
8. He was not only involved in Purdue football, but he made sure him and his team were involved in the community. They would make appearances and they also participated in a blood drive.
Those were just some of Coach Joe Tiller’s accomplishments as head coach at Purdue University the past 12 years. He is going to be truly missed by the University and also by the community, but he will never be forgotten. Him and his wife are planning on just enjoying their retirement and move on in life, but they will always have their hearts here at Purdue University.
2 comments:
I am so sad to see Coach Tiller leave! He was such a great man and a great coach. I didn't know all of the things that he had accomplished, that makes me respect him even more. Seeing him speak on the field after the game last Satuday was so sad; he started to get choked up talking about his team. He told everyone that if they were ever in Buffalo, Wyoming, that they could come and visit him and his wife. I'm thinking Spring Break trip! =)
Coach Tiller has a really impressive list of accomplishments. It would be a hard to follow in his footsteps knowing what he has done with his time here. I was happy we were able to win his last game here. He will always be remembered for everything he has done.
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