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Article: Spack, Redbirds pegged for 8th
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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ST. LOUIS -Brock Spack believes what he sees to a certain extent.
For instance, the first-year Illinois State football coach has
seen enough to believe in his Redbirds.
Yet seeing ISU picked eighth of nine teams in the Missouri Valley
Football Conference preseason poll on Monday didn't sway Spack's
belief.
"I don't really mind. I don't put too much stock in preseason
polls," Spack said. "It's a very tough league from top to bottom.
But I like our football team a lot. I like their work ethic. I would
be surprised if we're not better than what we were picked to
finish."
Spack inherits a Redbird team that also was picked eighth in the
2008 preseason poll. ISU made that prediction come true with ...