NORMAL — Illinois State football coach Brock Spack is taking a lesson from his players.
“They handled last week a lot better than the head coach did,” Spack said Tuesday of the controversial postponement of last Saturday’s game at Missouri State. “I had to follow their lead. I was so impressed. They went right back to work, changing their mindset to get ready for a new opponent.”
That new opponent is South Dakota, and the Redbirds are set to play their first home game since Nov. 16, 2019, when the Coyotes visit Hancock Stadium on Saturday for a noon Missouri Valley Football Conference encounter.