Purdue lost 50-7 at Maryland on Saturday and now has a sinkhole at its stadium. (Getty)

Purdue football has not had a good 72 hours.

The Boilermakers were blown out 50-7 at Maryland on Saturday and then a water line under the field at Ross-Ade Stadium broke Monday.

Nvr a good start 2 a Monday, main line broke over the wknd w booster pump running. A turf managers worst nightmare. pic.twitter.com/RIKUVqwuOm — Purdue Sports Turf (@PUSportsTurf) October 3, 2016





It got worse Tuesday as a sinkhole formed. Yikes.





It doesn’t look too bad from those time-lapse pictures, right? Well, with a little digging to get to the broken pipe, you can see just how deep the hole is with someone standing in it (top left).

Heres the little guy that caused all the mess. Stress on the pipe caused a clean break. Thrust blocks now used there pic.twitter.com/uZXymydtD5 — Purdue Sports Turf (@PUSportsTurf) October 4, 2016





There’s plenty of time for dirt to be added to the field and have it ready for play before the Boilermakers are home again. Purdue heads to Illinois on Saturday and isn’t home until Oct. 15 vs. Iowa. And given that Purdue is a great engineering school, we’re confident the field would be safe for play if it needed to be by Saturday anyway.

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