Epasnoopy, you're attitude toward Carey leads me to believe you have a case of what I call "2012/13-itis". It's a condition that NIU fans developed during the Harnish & Lynch years that lead them to believe NIU is somehow bigger and better than other MAC football programs. They're not. But You have a coach who is 32-7 In conference play. Better than any Mac school over that span. Yet somehow NIU is underperforming according to your expectations. They're averaging 9 wins a season. What is acceptable to you? Minimum of 10? Or is 11-3 the only acceptable record every year? If Toledo and Ohio, the next most successful in-conference programs over Carey's tenure, have a worse record than NIU, then how god awful are their coaches and who the heck are they losing to?

Our school is in the bottom 1/3 in athletic resources. What really good, available coaches are lined up to be Here? It's like fans think we can find the next "Jordan Lynch" of coaches. Or the next "Jordan Lynch" of athletic directors. Guys who are great yet somehow get over looked. Hell, We didn't even find the Jordan Lynch of qbs. Kill didn't go find him, kill was handed him by Lynch's HS coach and asked to take him as a favor. If Carey was handed a Lynch last year, this team would be 10-0, ranked and maybe headed to a NYs bowl.

You are right, if he was a great coach he'd be gone. He has flaws, but he's better than almost all of the other MAC coaches. I'd rather have the stability of the same good coach who is improving as he goes than a hot shot like Fleck who bolts after a couple years and leaves the team in disarray.