FORMER QUARTERBACK RETURNS AS HEAD COACH
Former Ball State quarterback Mike Neu returned to Muncie to take over as head coach of the Cardinals football program. Neu played for the Cardinals from 1990-93, and in his senior season he won the Mid-American Conference Vern Smith Award as the MAC’s most valuable player. He was also named MAC offensive player of the year after leading the Cardinals to the MAC Championship that year. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Ball State before playing and coaching in the Arena Football League. For the last two seasons, he worked with Drew Brees as the quarterbacks coach for the New Orleans Saints.
LEMBO LEAVES PROGRAM
After five years at Ball State, head coach Pete Lembo left the football program in order to become an assistant head coach at Maryland. The move to coach at a Big Ten program “is one which I simply can’t pass up,” Lembo said during his last Ball State press conference. During his five seasons as the head coach, he went 33-29 overall, which included two bowl appearances in 2012-13. The move included a significant pay cut for the former coach — his $350,000 starting pay at Maryland is the same he started with at Ball State in 2011, more than $160,000 less than he made in his last season.
RILEY NEAL TAKES OVER
True freshman quarterback Riley Neal opened the 2015 season as the Cardinals’ backup, but had taken over the starting job by the Cardinals’ fourth game of the season. In his first career appearance at Texas A&M, Neal entered the game in the second quarter and finished with 116 passing yards and 78 rushing yards. He also entered the next week’s game against Eastern Michigan in the second quarter with the Cardinals trailing and helped engineer a second-half comeback. Neal finished the season completing 58.3 percent of his passes for 2276 yards. He also threw for 16 touchdowns with six interceptions and added another 399 yards on the ground with two rushing touchdowns.
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