(12-05-2015 10:34 PM)sterling1man Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 10:30 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 10:29 PM)sterling1man Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 10:10 PM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 10:07 PM)sterling1man Wrote:  I am not afraid to blame the NIU athletic department for decisions which I disagree with, however I cannot believe that they are so bad that they deliberately scheduled poor teams if better teams were available.

I have to believe that after NIU beat a ranked Maryland in 2003 no other good team wanted to goto Dekalb anymore, not because our stadium is of poor quality but because they do not want to lose to NIU.

Teams that are good want to make money and win. Coming to Dekalb is a double negative on that. Thus the soldier field games.

Have to agree. Most NIU alumni in Chicago seem to prefer Soldiers field to DeKalb.

Is it because easier access with public transport and Uber?
Not having to waist 3-4 hours of travel time?
Chicago is far more cosmopolitan than DeKalb?
Museum of science and Industry in Chicago is perhaps slightly better than DeKalb's barbed wire museum?
Maybe Chicago is slightly more of a fun city than DeKlab?

Wait! If we build skyboxes the alumni will come???
Sorry athletic Department, this is not heaven or Iowa.(Remember Field of dreams!)
Soldier fields is far better than Huskie Stadium even if someone donated ten Million $ for upgrades.

Only NIU diehard FB fans would prefer Huskie Stadium over soldiers field.
DeKalb maybe better than AbNormal Illinois maybe able to compete with Rockford as
a boring joint but sucks Big time compare to Chicago.
Not many Illini Alumni travel back to Urbana to a world class stadium where they may play against a ranked teams on a Saturday.

A $10M revamped Huskie stadium will be another major waist of precious recources that will anger more students and Alumni.

ummmmm

Wow the Abilify seems to be working already! Must be a placebo effect.

Still funny

(12-05-2015 10:07 PM)sterling1man Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 09:25 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 08:45 PM)NIUSox10 Wrote:  

(12-05-2015 01:18 AM)huskie1stdown Wrote:  +1000
Better opponents better attendance.

MD made a good post a few weeks ago showing who our actual Saturday home opponents were over the last 4 years. It was pretty disgusting, and not appealing for even casual NIU fans. We need to upgrade our OOC home schedule (check) and we need to play some meaningful conference games on Saturday at home (fail - sold out to ESPN).

The last 4 years? More like a decade of crap scheduling.

I am not afraid to blame the NIU athletic department for decisions which I disagree with, however I cannot believe that they are so bad that they deliberately scheduled poor teams if better teams were available.

I have to believe that after NIU beat a ranked Maryland in 2003 no other good team wanted to goto Dekalb anymore, not because our stadium is of poor quality but because they do not want to lose to NIU.

There were people on this board saying that a better schedule was not possible, when Compher was here. Then Frazier comes on board and instantly we're getting better games. I know that isn't a coincidence. Besides, Compher admitted what his scheduling philosophy was and it did not include getting good home OOC games.

And that's after probably the best streak of NIU football in its history - thus the best chance for teams to lose to us.