NORMAL – When a university athletic compliance officer brings up “extra benefits” it typically isn’t good news for anybody.
Yet when Cindy Harris spoke to the Illinois State football team recently at Hancock Stadium, she brought glad tidings for six Redbirds.
“We try to set them up,” ISU coach Brock Spack said. “I try to get different people to come in and do it. She did a good job.”
The “extra benefits” of which Harris spoke were Redbird walk-ons being put on scholarship.
“It was truly an unbelievable experience,” said defensive end Dalton Tevis, “something I will never forget.