MUNCIE — The offer on the table from former Ball State athletic director Bill Scholl to Rich Maloney was not a surefire deal — at least not at first. See, Maloney had been working at Michigan, a Big Ten program where he had a new facility and all the momentum he could hope for.
He’d helped build a baseball park he calls a ‘Taj Mahal’ at Michigan, where he coached for a decade. So when Scholl was working to recruit Maloney and bring him to Muncie, where Ball State had won less than 15 games in the last two years, it was a bit of a tough sales pitch.