Football Scoop reporting new TE coach is Craig Harmon from Wisconsin-Whitewater where he held the same position.

Is that the same Craig Harmon that was a QB at NIU the year we lost like 4 QBs to injury? He transferred after that year when everyone came back and Finlen was named the starter.

(01-09-2014 09:27 PM)golf4501 Wrote:  Is that the same Craig Harmon that was a QB at NIU the year we lost like 4 QBs to injury? He transferred after that year when everyone came back and Finlen was named the starter.

I believe it is.

Yes it is, He was a Joe Novak favorite. He played hard and smart with limited physical abilities. He was tough. Glad to see ex Huskies who want to be back in deKalb.

WILL HE DEMAND MORE PASSES TO THE TIGHT ENDS???

(01-10-2014 01:52 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  WILL HE DEMAND MORE PASSES TO THE TIGHT ENDS???

(01-09-2014 10:41 PM)NIU05 Wrote:  Yes it is, He was a Joe Novak favorite. He played hard and smart with limited physical abilities. He was tough. Glad to see ex Huskies who want to be back in deKalb.

Yep he sure did. Welcome back Craig!

He coached at NIU as a grad assistant for a while as well, good guy, great hire

Craig is a friend and former teammate. This is a tremendous hire. He has worked his way up the chain and deserves this opportunity.

(01-10-2014 09:15 AM)niufb83 Wrote:  Craig is a friend and former teammate. This is a tremendous hire. He has worked his way up the chain and deserves this opportunity.

good solid hire. He will work his ass off.

(01-10-2014 02:03 AM)Enaiu Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 01:52 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  WILL HE DEMAND MORE PASSES TO THE TIGHT ENDS???

cant wait for GONNSQUAD41's response to this hire...lol

Can he recruit Wisconsin?

And he comes from a very good and successful program

(01-10-2014 04:11 PM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  Can he recruit Wisconsin?

Presumably he's been recruiting Wisconsin and northern Illinois since that's where most of Whitewater's players come from so he should be a seamless replacement for Polasek in that respect.

(01-10-2014 11:14 PM)NIU1981 Wrote:  

(01-10-2014 04:11 PM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  Can he recruit Wisconsin?

Presumably he's been recruiting Wisconsin and northern Illinois since that's where most of Whitewater's players come from so he should be a seamless replacement for Polasek in that respect.

Yeah, outside of his time at Georgia State he's spent his career at small colleges in the area- St. Francis in Joliet, then this year at Whitewater. High School coaches in the Chicago area, NW IN, and WI should know him.

Wow we must be desperate! The guy was the worst grad coach we ever had even worse than james brochu. We need to get some money so we can hire real coaches that can coach.

Notice how nobody is going after any of our coaches after this year. I am afraid we are going into the Novak days of bad coaching and decision making. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don't have coaching you cannot win.

Can NIU get their head out of their ass and get a decent kicking coach. Its pathetic that we as fans blame Sims who had ZERO help on kicking after a serious injury. I do NOT want any excuses I want results and I want some changes.

All the serious programs are changing things around because they didnt win a championship or achieve their goals. WHY ARE WE NOT DOING THAT???? NIU will not be taken serious if we allow a staff to come in BLOW IT and have zero consequences. In 2 years I hope we aren't regretting PJ not being here that would be sad and I really don't like the guy

(01-11-2014 01:16 PM)GOONSQUAD41 Wrote:  Wow we must be desperate! The guy was the worst grad coach we ever had even worse than james brochu. We need to get some money so we can hire real coaches that can coach.

Notice how nobody is going after any of our coaches after this year. I am afraid we are going into the Novak days of bad coaching and decision making. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don't have coaching you cannot win.

Can NIU get their head out of their ass and get a decent kicking coach. Its pathetic that we as fans blame Sims who had ZERO help on kicking after a serious injury. I do NOT want any excuses I want results and I want some changes.

All the serious programs are changing things around because they didnt win a championship or achieve their goals. WHY ARE WE NOT DOING THAT???? NIU will not be taken serious if we allow a staff to come in BLOW IT and have zero consequences. In 2 years I hope we aren't regretting PJ not being here that would be sad and I really don't like the guy

are you calling for Chris Nendick to come in and coach the kickers??

I also love the james brochu reference

He trains the Kickers at USC, ND, Memphis, U of I and that is just the kids that i have personally met. He has the only junior in the country with a ride in andrew david out of powerhouse massilon, ohio Go Tigers. He has all most all of the D-1 kickers as seniors in IL BUT ZERO NIU. WTF ARE WE DOING?????

PJ fleck called him and he got him a guy but we dont what is going on????

(01-11-2014 01:33 PM)GOONSQUAD41 Wrote:  He trains the Kickers at USC, ND, Memphis, U of I and that is just the kids that i have personally met. He has the only junior in the country with a ride in andrew david out of powerhouse massilon, ohio Go Tigers. He has all most all of the D-1 kickers as seniors in IL BUT ZERO NIU. WTF ARE WE DOING?????

PJ fleck called him and he got him a guy but we dont what is going on????

yeah thats unbelievable...somebody needs to make a call to Coach Kane. GOONSQUAD, any connections w our coaching staff by chance?