The Neu class has arrived.
It’s Year Two of the Mike Neu era in Muncie, Indiana. Year One was disappointing, though not all that shocking. Pete Lembo didn’t leave the cupboard bare when he left Ball State in 2015, but none of the pieces seemed to match. Neu assembled those pieces as best he could, and the end result was a 4-8 (1-7) effort in 2016.
It didn’t feel that bad, though did it? Certainly there’s talent at Ball State. Couple that with the drop off we can surely expect at Western Michigan, and a couple solid Cardinal recruiting classes means Ball State could be a player in the MAC West for years to come.