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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue hired Georgia Tech athletic director Mike Bobinski on Tuesday, less than a month before the struggling Boilermakers football program kicks off its fourth season under Darrell Hazell.Bobinski replaces Morgan Burke, who has held the position for 23 years and is formally retiring next summer. Purdue did not disclose terms, but President Mitch Daniels said Bobinski will receive a multi-year deal with a salary in line with other Power Five conference athletic directors.Bobinski had been at Georgia Tech since 2013 and becomes only the fourth Purdue athletic director since World War II. Daniels said Purdue sought a person whose values and vision are similar to Burkes.His credentials, record, values and intensely competitive desire to win convinced us that Mike Bobinski is that person, he said.Bobinski served as the chair for the NCAA mens basketball committee during the 2012-2013 season. And while Bobinskis background is filled with basketball success -- he hired Thad Matta and then Chris Mack while he was the AD at Xavier and Josh Pastner this spring at Georgia Tech -- his first challenge at Purdue will be to evaluate a football program that is 6-30 under Hazell, whose contract runs through the 2018 season.Home attendance for Purdue football has declined during Hazells first three seasons with only 37,152 attending the 2015 game with rival Indiana.Bobinski said he met with Hazell on Monday night and that the coach is a terrific guy with lots of energy.I have been around football most of my years in this business, and I know what it is like, Bobinski said. I know success, and I know lack of success. There are fundamental things that you look for in evaluating any program. I see better days ahead for the gold and black. I want to see that our players are developing and that we are recruiting the right young men. There are things that must be in place to be successful at the national level.As recently as 2014, Georgia Tech finished the football season 11-3, including an Orange Bowl victory against Mississippi State. Bobinski helped develop a plan to increase attendance at Georgia Tech home games and wants to bring Purdue fans back to 62,500-seat Ross-Ade Stadium.We cant always promise a nail-biting, great finish, high-energy deal, but what we can control is making the experience fan-friendly and fun, Bobinski said.Bobinski was eager to return to the Midwest. He attended Notre Dame, where he played baseball, and later worked at his alma mater. He also had AD stints at Akron and Xavier. He said the prospect of returning to a college town was enticing.Atlanta is a great city, but there are so many things to do and the traffic can be horrible that it is difficult at times just getting fans to our (Georgia Tech) events, he said. Giancarlo Stanton Jersey . 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More engaging, friendly, opinionated. Vivacious.When Thrasher raises her rifle toward the 10-ring target 50 meters downrange, the other side of her personality takes over. Determined, focused, confident.Thats the part that pushed the 19-year-old to become the first freshman rifle shooter to win both individual NCAA titles and earn a spot at the Rio Olympics in less than a month.When it comes to anything thats a challenge -- a test, a competition, training -- its very easy for her to dial in that concentration, said Jon Hammond, Thrashers rifle coach at West Virginia University. Shes still a very friendly person when shes shooting, but becomes a very focused individual.Thrasher, even from a young age, gravitated toward challenges. The harder it was, the more she seemed to like it.Shooting a rifle on the elite level is a large-caliber challenge centered upon the process: setup, path of the gun to the target, reaching a state of mental and physical calm to squeeze the trigger at the precise moment.Thrasher loved trying to piece together the puzzle of process, searching not for a single answer, but the one that worked for her.Whats most attractive of rifle is the mental side of the sport, she said. Anyone can go and hit a 10, its not that hard. To go and shoot 10 after 10 after 10 in a big event is very hard. You have to have a mastery of the mental side, controlling your emotions, following your process and not thinking about the outcome.Mastering the mental is something that usually comes with experience; young shooters often dont grasp the nuances older shooters have honed through years of competition.Thrasher condensed the learning curve, becoming a world-class shooter in five short years.She wanted to be an Olympic figure skater when she was younger, but became enthralled with shooting after joining her grandfather, father and two older brothers on a hunting trip.On the second day of the trip, the group stopped to eat lunch when Thrashers father, Roger, told her there was a deer right behind her. Thrasher grabbed her gun, leaned against a tree and, to the surprisee of her family, not only pulled the trigger, but took down the deer.dddddddddddd.The adrenaline rush was incredible, Thrasher said.Not long after that, Thrasher began shooting with the air rifle team at West Springfield (Va.) High School and went on to win the 2015 air rifle state championship. She also won five medals at the 2015 USA Shooting national championships to earn a spot on the U.S. National Team.Recruited by numerous colleges out of high school, Thrasher decided to attend national shooting powerhouse West Virginia. Though Hammond wasnt sure if she would be among the top five for the 18-time champion Mountaineers, Thrasher established herself as one of the nations best shooters by the end of the year.What makes the situation more unique is the improvement she made over the course of the year, said Hammond, a two-time Olympic shooter for Great Britain. The improvement she made from the start of the year to the end was dramatic.Even so, it was hard to predict what she would do during a four-week period this spring.Thrasher entered the NCAA championships confident, yet was more focused on helping the four seniors with her to win a national championship in Akron, Ohio. The Mountaineers did just that and Thrasher had two added bonuses: Individual national championships in small-bore and air rifle with many of her family and friends watching.Thrasher had another week of school after that, spent spring break in Costa Rica with her family, then headed to Fort Benning, Georgia, for the U.S. Olympic Trials. Again focused on shooting her best, not possible outcomes, she pulled off another surprise by building a massive lead after two days of the three-position event to earn a spot in Rio.That was a pretty crazy month for me, Thrasher said.It didnt stop there.A week after the trials, Thrasher went to Rio for an Olympic test event and came back for the final week of school. From there, she headed to Colorado, Munich, the Czech Republic, home to northern Virginia, France, Georgia, Germany and back home again.Chaotic, yes, but its all part of the process, one that has led her to Rio next month. ' ' '