NORMAL — As Illinois State football training camp opens Friday at Hancock Stadium, even head coach Brock Spack can’t be sure exactly what he has.
The Redbirds won’t be the same group that, when a last full season was played, advanced to the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs in 2019. And neither will ISU be the same squad that won one of four games in an abbreviated 2021 spring schedule after the pandemic wiped out the 2020 slate.
“We’re taking our culture back. We’ve giving the players a lot of input on that, getting back to who we are,” Spack said.