You've been very involved in the recruiting efforts there. How does that part change with your new role?
JP: In terms of the recruiting coordinator role, my gut is that it will change. That hasn't been done at this point, but I would think that's probably going to go to someone else on the staff. But in terms of what my role will be in recruiting, I'm actually looking forward to getting an opportunity to really take ownership and leadership of the defensive recruiting as a whole. Each guy's going to have their own recruits, but it's important when the coordinator's involved in the recruiting aspects of all the defensive players, so I look forward to that.
What direction do you want to go in for recruiting defense? How does going through a season in the Big Ten change your outlook, if at all?
JP: Probably the one thing that, as much as anything, came out of the year was that as part of being in the Big 12, we didn't recruit as many linebackers as you would being in the Big Ten, because all the offenses we played were spread offenses. We focused a little more on recruiting defensive backs. One of the things we have to do is make sure in this class and in the couple classes going forward is that we replenish our linebacker depth chart so we have the ability to go two- or three-deep when we play the two-back teams in the Big Ten.
