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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- When Gerad Parker was 12 and growing up in tiny Louisa, Kentucky, just across a bridge from West Virginia, he began cutting his coaching teeth, giving basketball instructions to elementary school students in his backyard.On Sunday, the 35-year-old Parker was called into athletic director Mike Bobinskis office and told that fourth-year head coach Darrell Hazell had been fired. Bobinski asked his wide receivers coach to step in as interim head coach for the rest of the season.To be a head coach has been a dream and a goal, but I certainly wasnt ready for it right now, Parker said Tuesday. That part has been tough, but you prepare and take notes for that time you would get to this point.In 3 1/2 seasons under Hazell, Purdue was 9-33, including 3-24 in Big Ten games and 5-33 against FBS competition.Parkers third child was born on Sept. 7 and he said his challenge now is every bit like having a newborn. Parker, whose Boilermakers (3-3) will play at No. 8 Nebraska (6-0) on Saturday, played college football at Kentucky and coached at Kentucky, Tennessee-Martin and Marshall before coming to Purdue with Hazell for the 2013 season.He said his journey from being obsessed with basketball in Kentucky to coaching football in the Big Ten certainly has been unique. His first love was basketball.I was just a little bit of a weird guy as far as how I had to prepare and do things, because I wasnt overly gifted athletically, Parker said. So I had to be really fundamentally sound.A middle school coach made an impression on Parker and he began to think about coaching as a profession. He never intended to pursue football coaching until he began playing the sport in high school as a compromise with classmate Jason Michaels, now the quarterbacks coach for the NFLs Tennessee Titans.Being from a small town (population 2,467), I cut a deal with our high schools quarterback (Michaels), Parker said. If I would play football, he would play basketball. I think I knew I would be a better coach than I was a player.Parker will get to find out during the next six weeks, although he knows that Bobinski will begin a national search to find a replacement for Hazell. In the meantime, this is Parkers team, for better or for worse.Purdue ranks last in the Big Ten in total defense (446.3 yards a game) and last in rushing defense (264.3 yards), which is 124th among the 128 FBS teams.On Saturday, they will be playing a Nebraska team that ranks third in the Big Ten in total offense with 453.8 yards a game.Parker said there may be a few tweaks to the defensive scheme, but theres not a lot that can be changed in less than a week. In an effort to limit distractions, Parker is closing practices this week in a change from Hazells open-door policy. 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Nathan Cleverly expects Sergey Kovalev to beat Andre Ward on Saturday and wants a rematch with him next year.Cleverly (30-3, 16 KOs) is as excited as any fan about the fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas which will decide the light-heavyweight divisions No.1.But the Briton has a close personal interest, too, as he should have a chance to line up a 2017 bout against the winner of Florida-based Russian Kovalev (30-0-1, 26 KOs), who will defend his WBA super, WBO and IBF world titles, and American Ward (30-0, 15 KOs).Its a brilliant fight, probably the best in the whole of boxing at the moment, because its such a contrast of styles, Cleverly told ESPN.Ward is a masterclass technically as a fighter and then you have Kovalev, whose boxing skills are underrated but has brute force in both hands. Its intriguing.It will be so close, and go the distance, but Im going with Kovalev. I see why people are thinking Ward, but Kovalev keeps his distance and has good balance, he has got long punches -- and he is the bigger guy.Kovalevs the natural light-heavyweight and Ward has come up from super-middle. He [Kovalev] is experienced at fighting bigger guys and his power will be enough to put Ward into his shell. He will win the rounds on work rate and make Ward very defensive. I think he will win a close decision.Kovalev became world champion in 2013 when he dealt Cleverly his first defeat as a professional, in front of his fans in Wales.It was a brutal fourth-round lesson for the home fighter, which featured two knockdowns before it was stopped. But that hasnt put Cleveerly off a rematch with the Russian.ddddddddddddThe winner is my official mandatory defence, so will collide with me at some point in the not-so-distant future, he said. They will get their business done and I will get my business done and then it could happen.If its Kovalev, people will think Im crazy to get back in the ring with him, but Im a fighter and Im a risk-taker; if its there, I will do it. I took the fight too early last time -- next time will be different.Cleverly has suffered two points losses since taking a beating from Kovalev -- to fellow Briton Tony Bellew up at cruiserweight, and against Andrzej Fonfara. However, he revived his career last month when he won the WBAs regular version of the world title from Juergen Braehmer, who retired before the start of the seventh round with a shoulder injury.Provisionally, the rematch with Braehmer is my next fight, Cleverly said. I signed a rematch clause before the fight so Im expecting to fight him again in Germany.I won the [WBO] world title at 24, which is very young when you are against fully-grown men. I took a risk by fighting Kovalev aged 26; he was an unknown quantity then. He came over to the UK and I was a bit immature, he was a mature 30-year-old.He had too much for me. It was a devastating defeat at the time, but maybe it needed to happen. Mentally, Ive wised up, it has given me time to physically mature and get stronger, so maybe it was a blessing in disguise. ' ' '