One of the most important things for a football team looking to establish a sense of identity, a sense of pride, and most importantly, a buy in from those in the locker room is the selection of team captains. Now that spring practice is officially over and the coaches are significantly hands off until fall [...]
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Alright… I have a confession to make. Despite running this website, lauding the Cardinals, and basically pissing Cardinal and White, I have never been to a Ball State spring game. To be fair, when I was in college (98-02) the football Cardinals were a Charles Barkley-esque turrrible. In fact, I’m not even sure ChuckWagon’s butchering [...]
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On last week’s OTPCast, I had said one of the two things I would be watching with interest on Saturday for the Ball State spring game was the crowd. I believed that the size of the crowd would indicate several things, most notably whether or not the work of the current staff had made a [...]
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In case you’ve forgotten, don’t read the paper, don’t check the Web, don’t check OTP, and don’t listen to the podcast, the spring game for the Cardinals is this Saturday. Of course, if you’re that averse to technology and information, you wouldn’t be reading this now. For those of you who do in fact know [...]
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As spring practice winds its way down to the end with the pending spring game this Saturday, practice #12 is in the books, and Coach Lembo sat down per usual with the BSU media relations staff. To the release! We are one week away from the annual Spring Game, are you where you want to [...]
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We’re a little over a week away from celebrating a joyous resurrection. Sure, that Jesus fella did it as well, and some folks will come together to laud his accomplishment of rising from the dead, but if you’re a Cardinal football fan, the rebirth that is taking place this spring is quite the spectacle to [...]
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Spring practices #7 and #8 were conducted Friday and Saturday at the Scheu, and BSU head coach Pete Lembo broke them down with BSU media. To the releases! Spring Practice #7 Release You are at the halfway point of Spring Practice, is the team where you expected it to be at this point? In some [...]
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The Cardinals wrapped up Spring Practice #6 Wednesday, and head coach Pete Lembo sat down with the BSU media staff for the usual questions and answers. The release… We talked yesterday about the offensive line, how is the defensive line progressing with some holes to fill due to graduation from last year? Much like the offensive [...]
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As has been the case all spring, Ball State head football coach Pete Lembo sits down with the BSU media relations office after practice and allows some Q’s and the respective A’s to come to light about the progress of the Cards and the advancement of the Lembo doctrine in Muncie. Tuesday marked day #5 of spring practice, and [...]
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For several years now, Edge and I have been bemoaning the lack of coverage for spring practice at Ball State. No, we didn’t expect ESPNU to break out the camera trucks and satellites to broadcast the actual Cardinal-White game to the hundreds of folks who may watch it, but it still would have been nice to [...]
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