NORMAL, Ill. – The non-conference portion of the 2025 football season ends this weekend, when No. 4 ranked Illinois State welcomes in North Alabama for a Family Weekend contest on Jay and Lori Bergman Field at Hancock Stadium on Saturday. ISU head coach Brock Spack will preview the upcoming matchup with the Lions at Schooners on Thursday at 6 p.m. at The Brock Spack Show, presented by Redbird Ale from DESTIHL.
Coach Spack will chat with Redbird football play-by-play voice John Fitzgerald and longtime color analyst Ted Schmitz about his team's performance in last weekend's rivalry game win at Eastern Illinois and he will preview the upcoming contest with North Alabama. They will be joined by senior wide receiver Daniel Sobkowicz and wide receivers coach Mickey Turner as this week's special guests.
Schooners is located at 810 East Grove Street in Bloomington and sits just off the corner of Grove Street and Clinton Boulevard. For those who can't make it out to Schooners to watch the show live, it will be broadcast on WJBC 1230 AM in the Twin Cities and streamed live on GoRedbirds.com and The Varsity Network. Portions of the show will also be broadcast live on the Illinois State Athletics Facebook page.
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