Western Kentucky went almost a month without a towel waver or the standard locker room celebrations it enjoys after a victory.
Friday night’s emotional win over Middle Tennessee brought back those practices and may have given the program a timely adrenaline shot needed to close out the season.
“I think there is a renewed energy,” WKU coach Mike Sanford said at Monday’s weekly news luncheon. “It had been a long time. We get in the locker room and kind of almost forgot what it was like to go through all the procedures and celebrating and bringing up the towel waver and just going through that.