After Ball State (16-6, 8-3 MAC) lost to division-leader Central Michigan (16-7, 10-2 MAC), Cardinal head coach Brady Sallee said he was not excited to watch the game film.
"I’ll have to watch it, but what I’m afraid of is the lessons that we would talk about off this film are effort-related, want-to-related," he said. "I don’t know that there’s a coach out there good enough to coach those two things. You’ve gotta have it. The head-scratching part of this is we’ve had that all year and tonight we didn’t."
Ball State trailed Central Michigan at halftime, 33-27 and the Chippewas pulled away by outscoring the Cardinals in the third quarter, 22-14.