Eddie Faulkner

Cruising around the Internet during the Badger game the other night, I discovered that Eddie Faulkner is the offensive coordinator/running backs coach at Ball State. Eddie's from Muncie, Ind., so it's nice that he was able to end up in his hometown.

He's been at Ball State for five years, and that was a pretty damn good offense they had last year. This year got off to a little bit rougher start, though, they lost their opener to North Texas, one of the worst teams in college football.

I remember doing a feature on Eddie, think it was 1997, when he was backing up Ron Dayne during one of the latter's rare injury periods. He was one of those solid backups that provided the Badgers with quality depth and helped the program reach new heights in the late 1990s.

Glad that Eddie's getting a shot at being a coordinator in a Division 1 program, hopefully it leads to bigger and better things for him.