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LSU's Danny Etling idolized Drew Brees, outworks everyone — so why did he fail at Purdue?
Indiana native a 'perfect fit' for Cam Cameron's offense
BY ROSS DELLENGER | RDELLENGER@THEADVOCATE.COM SEP 22, 2016 - 5:45 PM

There was snow on the ground, sometimes as much as a foot.

It was cold, sometimes so frigid that the wind bit like ice picks on your skin.

He was alone, all of the time, no classmate silly enough to join him outside in January in Terre Haute, Indiana.

But there he was, a seventh grader, with a bag of footballs at his feet, picking them up one at a time and throwing them into the white, icy lawn.

“I’ll never forget driving by,” said Steve Englehart, then head football coach at Rose-Hulman, a Division III college in Terre Haute. “He’s taking a drop with a ball, throwing it. It was continuous. He’d go pick up the five balls, and he’d throw them back the other way to his ghost wide receivers.”

LSU's Danny Etling idolized Drew Brees, outworks everyone