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Messageboard Like a Champion Today

First of all, a small update. Yes, I know it’s IU week. Yes, I know it’s been sort of quiet around these parts. Unfortunately, rather than making the pilgrimage to Indy for the Cards and Hoosiers, I’m in Southern Indiana for a family wedding. Yes, a family wedding on Labor Day Weekend. Yes, a family wedding [...]

Coach Lembo’s MACtastic Teleconference (AUDIO)

Every Monday for the past few years, we’ve been lucky enough to be part of the MidAmerican Conference Coaches’ Teleconference. Today was a special one though, as it not only marked the first one of this season, it was also the first time many Cardinal fans will get to hear the dulcet tones of awesome emanating from [...]

IU Hate Week… Engage

It’s IU Week, and as such, time to pull back the curtain on another HateWeek at OTP. We always get asked whether we actually hate IU, and the short answer is no. The much longer answer is that IU is a great school with a great athletic tradition in some sports and a mediocre football [...]

OTPcast 3.1

It’s the week before college football begins so of course Edge and I couldn’t leave you hanging. This is the first one of this particular season, our 3rd season of podcasting about the Ball State Fighting Football Cardinals. Rusty? A bit. Technical difficulties? A few. But if this is the starting point for future podcasts [...]

Know an ’11 Opponent: Oklahoma

In an effort to educate, inform, preview and most importantly, poke fun of those who dare add the Ball State Cardinals to their football schedule, OTP is proud to present the Know an ’11 Opponent series. Some things to note… this isn’t heavy lifting here with broken down statistics, game film replays, or random things [...]

Know an ’11 Opponent: Army

In an effort to educate, inform, preview and most importantly, poke fun of those who dare add the Ball State Cardinals to their football schedule, OTP is proud to present the Know an ’11 Opponent series. Some things to note… this isn’t heavy lifting here with broken down statistics, game film replays, or random things [...]

Know an ’11 Opponent: South Florida

In an effort to educate, inform, preview and most importantly, poke fun of those who dare add the Ball State Cardinals to their football schedule, OTP is proud to present the Know an ’11 Opponent series. Some things to note… this isn’t heavy lifting here with broken down statistics, game film replays, or random things [...]

Know an ’11 Opponent: Indiana

In an effort to educate, inform, preview and most importantly, poke fun of those who dare add the Ball State Cardinals to their football schedule, OTP is proud to present the Know an ’11 Opponent series. Some things to note… this isn’t heavy lifting here with broken down statistics, game film replays, or random things [...]

Get Your Eat On with Coach Lembo

In case you don’t have dinner plans on Monday and were longing for a chance to rub elbows with the man about to take the MAC by storm, here’s your chance, friend. Per the BSU official athletics page, Pete Lembo is taking his road show outside the boundaries of the Muncie area as he’s about to unleash the Lembo all [...]

Baker Breaks Thumb, Fans Get Jammed

Two Thursdays, kiddies. That is all we have left before this long national nightmare known as the college football offseason is finally over. Granted, that opening night isn’t loaded with glitzy teams or national title contenders, but it’s the return of football and a lack of quality is nothing compared to a lack of football. [...]

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