Several times throughout his first season as Northwestern State’s head football coach, Blaine McCorkle has referred to the 2024 season as a “restart.”
That term perfectly encapsulates what McCorkle’s first home finale as the head Demon will be.
When Northwestern hosts Southland Conference rival McNeese in its annual Military Appreciation Game at 1 p.m. Saturday, it marks the first time the longtime combatants have faced off since the Demons’ Nov. 20, 2021, drought-snapping victory in Lake Charles. Prior to a late schedule change that kept the game from being played in 2022, the teams had met every season since 1951…