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WIU moving on from current coach as they move to OVC.

I hadn't seen this locally. Very good news. https://www.murrayledger.com/sports/murray_state/bad-day-for-racers-ends-with-williams-in-hospital-but-released/article_198b892c-81ac-11ee-a6df-93bc9d491dba.html

It's signing day. Happy to learn about all of the new Birds. Football - Wednesday, December 21 - Signing Day

"ISU welcomed 3,983 freshmen for the 2022-2023 school year when the semester began in late August. This record number is up 18% from last year’s freshman enrollment, and the largest freshman class in 35 years. Total enrollment at ISU is up 2% as well, at a total of 20,683 students this year...

The calendar has flipped from February to March, and a beautiful day greets the Birds as they begin spring practice! Check out Randy Reinhardt's coverage in the Pantagraph.

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Central Arkansas, Jacksonville State, and EKU are going to join the new FCS Atlantic Sun in 2022. This further weakens the Southland (which is also losing teams to the new WAC) and is a big hit to the OVC. The new ASun is looking for one more team, which will then give it enough to gain an...

Pantagraph has a story about the first day of practice yesterday. DL depth is an issue. We're pretty solid in the first three, but we'll have newcomers joining Jacob Powell in the 2nd string rotation that plays quite a bit. Steven Podkulski is done with football due to injury. Shout out to...

It has been rumored for a while, but now it is confirmed that the Western Athletic Conference will be sponsoring FCS football in 2022. There will initially be seven teams: current independents and FCS newcomers Dixie State (Utah) and Tarleton State (Texas), Southern Utah from the Big Sky, and...

The Pantagraph noted that it has been 25 years (1995) since Todd Berry was named coach of the Redbirds, and it got me to thinking. While Berry was with the Redbirds only 4 seasons, he deserves credit for changing expectations of Redbird football and ushering in a period of winning. I...

Great story about our two Jaguars and the toughness of Redbird football. ISU already tweeting it. I have to believe it'll be sent to all players we're recruiting for the next few years...

Reports are that these conferences won't play. If most of their members don't play, there can't be playoffs. I'm guessing we call it off too, especially as ISU has moved to primarily online learning.

Who would have thought... Montana has twice as many first downs, 17 to 8. Montana's third down efficiency is twice as good, 47% to 19%. Montana gains more than twice as many yards passing and rushing, 274 to 113. But Weber State wins 17-10. Montana turns the ball over 5 times - the fatal...

James Robinson and Drew Himmelman are both first team all conference offense. On the defensive side, it was Romeo McKnight, Luther Kirk and Devin Taylor. Ty DeForest was the only second teamer.

Congratulations to LB Dylan Draka! http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20191111133853974182404&ref=hea&tm=&src=FCS

0-4 SDSU outgained Minnesota, but mistakes (interception returned for a TD, and a 4th quarter fumble leading to a TD) did them in. Even with sloppy play, this was the best showing of the night for the conference, by far. WIU never led in losing to North Alabama who is transitioning up from...

Birds come in at 15, immediately ahead of Indiana State and UNI a couple further back. NDSU is 1, James Madison 2, SDSU is 3. From the accompanying story, "Five teams that weren't ranked at the end of last season enter the new campaign in the Top 25, led by No. 15 Illinois State, which hasn't...

Pre season all conference teams are being announced today and tomorrow. Birds have 4 first team all conference picks and 4 honorable mentions. Offense released today. Himmelman and Robinson are the first team picks. Megginson and Edgar are honorable mentions.

ISU is projecting solid enrollment this fall, with tuition deposits running a bit ahead of last year's pace. Meanwhile, UNI is looking at more than a 5% drop in their enrollment from just last year. They expect to have their lowest enrollment in a generation. Iowa State is also down.

We're often so quick to criticize, that we should praise some things as well. I thought ISUs interns did a good job covering spring practice. Of course we always want more, but the photos, video clips, and player interviews were well done. We don't want to give away info, but it's nice to...