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Quarterback Caleb TerBush may have best summed up Purdue’s feeling after its 20-17 loss to Notre Dame, Saturday.

“It’s a bummer,” he said.  “We came in here expecting to win.  We felt like we definitely had a lot of mojo going behind us this whole week.”

Plain and simple, for the Boilermakers, the loss to the 22nd-ranked Irish was a bummer.

Season openers haven’t been the most reassuring games for Purdue’s football team over the past couple of years.

But, the Boilers were all business to start the 2012 campaign, Saturday, easily handling Eastern Kentucky 48-6.

“We’re a much better football team than we were this time last year.  Even though we made some mistakes, I still think we have great potential as a football team” said Purdue head coach Danny Hope. 

The Purdue football season gets underway Saturday at home against Eastern Kentucky.  The Boilermakers are coming off their most successful campaign of the Danny Hope era, one it which they went 7-6 and earned their first bowl berth and win since 2007.

That success has heightened expectations heading into the new season which, as WBAA' Sam Klemet explains, the Boilermakers are fully embracing.

A three-time Super Bowl Champion says he is encouraged by the direction of Purdue’s football program.

Matt Light was the keynote speaker Friday at the Boilermakers annual Kickoff Luncheon.

He played for Purdue from 1996 to 2000 before a ten year career with the New England Patriots.

Light says despite some recent ups and downs, he thinks the current batch of Boilers have what it takes to put together a successful season.

It’s been a whirl wind past few days for David Boudia.

Saturday, the former Purdue diver captured gold at the London Olympics.  That was followed by a blitz of media interviews there and then traveling back to the United States for some more Q and A with the New York media. 

But, as WBAA’s Sam Klemet reports, finally, Boudia is able to take a slight breath being back home.

Even with two medals dangling from his neck, it still hasn’t really sunk in for David Boudia that he is an Olympic champion.