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An Interview With Kitt O’Brien

OTP is fortunate to continue our interview series with new recruits for the Cardinal and White with today’s guest… Kitt O’Brien. Kitt comes to Muncie after a ridiculously successful career at Lewis-Cass high school in Walton, IN. The 6-6 300lb. guard was totally dominant in his high school career, and for someone his size, is [...]

Virtual Commonwealth Stadium

Like virtual Scheumann Stadium we talked about earlier, EA Sports’ newest version of NCAA Football’s take on Commonwealth Stadium has hit the interwebs. The curious thing about this particular photo shows a visiting section decked out in red. This must mean Alabama is there, as clearly, if it were a Louisville game, most of those [...]

Virtual Scheumann Stadium

For anyone like me who’s anxiously awaiting the release of NCAA 2010 on July 14th, this comes as yet another dose of awesome to sort of get you through the shakes until it hits the shelves. Virtual Scheumann Stadium. No word yet on what virtual Charlie looks like, whether or not the Pride of MidAmerica [...]

BSU Marketing Caught Napping

Well, the word around the Muncie Campfire is that Ball State Football will once again sport the “Game On” slogan this year. So while we earlier lauded Coach Eck for his proactive approach to embrace technology, the ol’ sports marketing department has sputtered and come up with a rehash of 2008 material. Lame, guys. Hella [...]

Offseason Roundtable #13

In an effort to not only increase our chatter about the Cards, but to also increase some reader participation, Edge, RV, and Alan will be doing these roundtables every week. Love the answers? Want to post your own thoughts? Of course you do. And you can do so in the Comments section. Because remember, dear [...]

Enough Financial Data to Make Your Head Spin

OTP’s co-editor, RV, stumbled across this website when surfing the interwebs for whatever he normally looks at and realized the virtual gold mine he had just uncovered. Provided by that site are the operating expenses, revenues, etc. for almost every team under the sun as they’ve reported to the NCAA. For BSU and UK, the [...]

BSU Releases Portion of Scheduled Game Times

Ball State has announced its football game times for the 2009 season, and the Cardinals will have six games televised on the ESPN family of networks. Below is the complete 2009 football schedule with game times which have been announced. Sept.3 (Thurs.) NORTH TEXAS (7:30) – ESPNUCARDINAL VARSITY CLUB DAY Presented by ProLiance Energy 12 [...]

Welcome to Twitter, Coach Eck

The Ball State Daily News is reporting o-line coach Jason Eck has joined six other MAC coaches on the Twitter. You can check out his page here. Although it’s been around since 2006, Twitter has lately become one of the top go-to social networking tools available. I finally submitted to its awesomeness over the past [...]

The MAC on National Television in the Fall

The MAC has released it’s nationally televised games for the fall football season. Fire up those TIVO’s… Thursday, Sept. 3North Texas at Ball State, 7:30 PM (ESPNU) Saturday, Sept. 5Kentucky vs. Miami (Cincinnati, Ohio), 12 Noon (ESPNU)Akron at Penn State, 12 Noon (Big Ten Network)Toledo at Purdue, 12 Noon (Big Ten Network)Western Michigan at Michigan, [...]

An Interview with Jason Pinkston

In terms of incoming recruits, one of the most celebrated, heralded, and most excited for prospect is Jason Pinkston. From Glenville, OH, where the Cards have built a pretty formidable pipeline to one of the best schools in football-rich Ohio, Pinkston was clearly a high visibility high reward target for BSU to land this past [...]

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