Back to the Ball State Cardinals Newsfeed

Former Ball State football walk-on who helped Mike Neu lose 24 pounds has turned into a leader

These eight players should have big roles for Ball State in 2018. Ryan O'Gara/Star Press

One is “fat.” The other has gray hair. Inside the entertaining relationship between Mike Neu and a Ball State football player.

MUNCIE, Ind. — It started this summer in a hallway of the Fischer Football Training Facility. Josh Miller, a former walk-on turned starting cornerback for Ball State, was talking a little smack to his head coach.

Mike Neu, entering his third season with Ball State and 25 years removed from his playing career with the Cardinals, was feeling a little sluggish.