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Growth of players' leadership critical for BGSU football

BOWLING GREEN — Fifth-year seniors Darren Anders and Odieu Hiliare have seen — and been part of — positive changes during their time playing for Bowling Green State University’s football program.

Not only in the upward trend in the win column over the past couple of years, but in the impact of their leadership.

“When I got here in 2019, the whole culture, it wasn’t right. There was really no leadership on the team,” Anders said during Thursday’s Mid-American Conference media day at Fox Theatre in Detroit. “Coach [Scot] Loeffler always preaches about how great teams are player-led teams.