You won’t often find a football season that has as many twists and turns as Missouri State’s 2016 campaign had.
There were big-time performances, both individually and as a team, and good moves and disastrous decisions from the coaching staff. Players made names for themselves on a national level, while others made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Before putting all of the focus on the 2017 season, there's time to factor in what went right and what went wrong in 2016.
Going into the third season of the Dave Steckel Era, there appears to be a real opportunity for the Bears to continue to make progress in the rebuilding job that has been going on for the last quarter-century.