Kalamazoo — The music was blaring inside Waldo Stadium on Monday.
No, Western Michigan wasn’t opening its football season. Not yet.
Instead, the players and their energetic coach P.J. Fleck were gong through a dress rehearsal — for Friday’s game against Michigan State.
No. 5 Michigan State.
“I think this is what every MAC team dreams of,” Fleck of playing Michigan State at home, the first time Western Michigan has welcomed their cross-state rival in school history. “This has been sold out, an opener sell-out, top-five opponent coming inside Waldo Stadium.