Clean Slate: Ball State Cardinal football looks to dissipate lackluster recent past with successful 2024
By Kyle Smedley and Elijah Poe / September 5, 2024Predictions and expectations for Ball State football’s 2024 season.
Predictions and expectations for Ball State football’s 2024 season.
Ball State football will take on Missouri State in their first game of the season. The game will kick off at 2 p.m. Here is what head coach Mike Neu, Tanner Koziol, and Keionte Newson said about the upcoming game.
Here are some Delaware County results from the week of 8/19-8/24.
Here are the nominees for the Delaware County Athlete of the Week from Monday, Aug. 19 to Saturday, Aug. 24.
Delta defeated Muncie Central 28-7 for the fourth strait year to open the 2024 season.
With the fall season right around the corner, it’s time to head to high school football stadiums and sit under the Friday night lights to watch teams take the gridiron. In 2024, the four Delaware County teams are all in a similar position.
While all teams would like to call themselves a family, perhaps no sport truly embodies what it’s like to be a part of one like football. A sport where it takes more than just the 11 starters on each side of the ball to claim victory.
“Before you can win, you gotta talk it,” new cornerbacks coach Darrell Perkins said of the Cardinals' defensive backs. Confidence will be key in this new group's development in 2024.
“They embrace the dirty jobs,” offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Jared Elliot said. “They have the mentality that, “Whatever is asked of me to help our football team have success. They really feed off each other that way.”
After three different players earning starts at quarterback last season, Ball State officially committed to Kadin Semonza as its 2024 QB1. The Cardinals' most versatile receiving corps in years, an array of unproven half backs and an anchor of an offensive line look to ensure Semonza has plenty of options whether he looks to pass or run.
Since the Ball State football defense lost a majority of their previous players to graduation or the transfer portal, the 2024 Cardinal squad will be filled with new faces.
Daily News high school sports beat reporter Zach Carter gives his awards for the 2023-24 Delaware County sports year.
Complete with another QB1 competition, the transfer portal causing confusion, losses and gains, and new-look offenses and defenses, Ball State football's 2024 spring game felt like the introduction of a new era for the Cardinals after a 4-8 2023 season.
After ending the 2023 season just five months ago, Ball State football returned to the field for their annual spring game in the 2024 season. Here are three things learned from the 2024 football squad.
With the motto “small school, big opportunities,” the Wes-Del Warriors continue to upgrade their athletics program by using a a four-phase plan.
Associate sports editor Zach Carter attended the Mid-American Conference commissioner's press conference and gave his thoughts about what Jon Steinbrecher said.
While most collegiate student-athletes have enough on their plates as is, these Ball State athletes are also proud parents.
Alex Perry has been with Ball State since 2022 and has served as the associate athletic director for internal operations since that time.
From walk-ons to transfers to season-ending injuries, these four former Ball State football players all had different paths during their tenures. None of them will return to the Cardinals next season.
Ball State University Director of Athletics Jeff Mitchell made the decision to keep football's head coach Mike Neu for a ninth season. However, Neu made the decision two days later to relieve co-offensive coordinator Kevin Lynch of his playcalling duties.
