Ball State will reportedly turn to one of its own to be its next head coach.
Reports from FootballScoop (full disclosure: I also write for FootballScoop) and Fox Sports peg the Cardinals as hiring former Ball State player Mike Neu as their next head coach. Neu is currently the quarterbacks coach for the New Orleans Saints.
Sources tell FootballScoop Ball State has offered their head coaching position to Mike Neu https://t.co/sNnVtycOD5
— FootballScoop (@FootballScoop) January 6, 2016
#Saints QB coach Mike Neu is expected to become the new #BallState head coach, source told @FoxSports.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 6, 2016
Ball State AD Mark Sandy said this week the school is close, anticipating a Friday announcement.
“I have someone I have in mind,” Sandy said on Monday, via the Muncie Star Press. “But I have to make sure they want the job and to make sure they will come and work for the compensation we have — and that hasn’t started yet.”
Neu, 45, threw for 6,221 yards and 43 touchdowns as a Ball State quarterback. He led the Cardinals to the 1993 MAC championship.
The Indianapolis native has been with the Saints for the past two seasons and in the Big Easy since 2004 as head coach of the New Orleans VooDoo of the Arena League, as a scout for the Saints and as quarterbacks coach at Tulane.
Neu is set to fill a vacancy left by Pete Lembo, who left his post Dec. 23 to become an assistant on D.J. Durkin‘s staff at Maryland.
Ball State went 3-9 this fall.
