Walters Introduced as Head Coach

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University president Mitch Daniels and director of athletics Mike Bobinski introduced the new head coach for Purdue Football Ryan Walters in a ceremony attended by fans, staff and members of the media on Wednesday. Daniels, Bobinski, Walters and chair of the board of trustees Mike Berghoff spoke on the next chapter for Boilermaker football. 

MIKE BOBINSKI: First of all, thank you all for coming today. Welcome, everybody.

A couple of distinguished guests I make sure we want to recognize before we get into the business of the day here. I know we have President Daniels, President-Elect Chiang, I thank them so much for being with us today.

We have got some trustees here: Malcolm DeKryger, Gary Lehman. I don’t know if JoAnne made it or not, but all of these folks are like really important parts to our success here in football, so really thank you for taking the time to be with us.

This is a — hold on, hold on. It’s a really exciting day for Purdue Football here and to temper that excitement, I’m going to invite Chairman Mike Berghoff up here of our board of trustees to say a few things.

Chairman Berghoff, it’s all yours.

MIKE BERGHOFF: Good afternoon. As Mike said I’m Mike Berghoff, I’m chair of the board of trustees.

But first thing I want to do is thank our student athletes on the football team for managing this week with professionalism and class. Things happen quickly in a change like this and sometimes it can go off the rails in the locker room, but it didn’t. So thank you, student athletes, because you enhanced our reputation by managing your week the way you did.

Another thing that enhances our reputation is winning, winning at the highest level, in sports, and academics.

And when we are out on a search with the athletic director, I just want you to know that your board, the president, the president-elect, the athletic staff is aligned in our commitment to winning and Coach is going to help us to do that.

Welcome, Coach, to you and your family.

MIKE BOBINSKI: Thank you, Mike, appreciate it very much and appreciate your help through the process.

So talk a little about where we are and what’s going on these last couple days since the news broke last week that Coach Brohm was moving on.

This has been a distinctly different search than it was six years ago. Back…