(06-27-2016 11:33 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  

(06-24-2016 10:57 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  I am legitimately jealous of Texas State's stadium. Hopefully ours looks like that soon.

I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Some of us knew it was BS back then because Toledo was already scheduling good teams at their place. Their stadium is a little bigger, with an actual pressbox, but not a big enough difference that it would have stopped schools from playing in DeKalb.

Yep. There have always been excuses why NIU had not been able to schedule quality teams, while other schools in the MAC did not seem to have problems.

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  

(06-24-2016 10:57 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  I am legitimately jealous of Texas State's stadium. Hopefully ours looks like that soon.

I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Actually per Carey and SF, Illinois refuse to play us now and wont play us until they get better.

(06-24-2016 08:51 PM)Michael the Narwhal Wrote:  I just happened to notice this:

http://www.fbschedules.com/2016/06/arizo...ll-series/

Texas State transitioned to FBS in 2012 and already have a bigger name coming to their home than I think we've ever had at Huskie Stadium. What do you think their secret is?

1 Because they are in Texas so its good for AZ St recruiting IN Texas.

2 Because they will very likely be one of the weakest FBS team in Texas so its the safest game AZ St could play in the state.

3. Because they are outside the P12 footprint so more exposure than normal WHILE ALSO TX St is just as close as P12 crossover game so its not a travel burden.

4. Who knows what the financial deal is.

(06-27-2016 03:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  

(06-24-2016 10:57 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  I am legitimately jealous of Texas State's stadium. Hopefully ours looks like that soon.

I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Actually per Carey and SF, Illinois refuse to play us now and wont play us until they get better.

Well, if they get "better", we should refuse to play them unless we get 2 games at Huskie Stadium for 1 game there. F 'em.

(06-27-2016 03:47 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  1. Because they are in Texas so its good for AZ St recruiting IN Texas.

I've never understood why this matters. How does playing a game in Texas help Arizona St with recruiting in the state of Texas? Could someone explain it to me?

(06-27-2016 05:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 03:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  

(06-24-2016 10:57 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  I am legitimately jealous of Texas State's stadium. Hopefully ours looks like that soon.

I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Actually per Carey and SF, Illinois refuse to play us now and wont play us until they get better.

Well, if they get "better", we should refuse to play them unless we get 2 games at Huskie Stadium for 1 game there. F 'em.

We should go to the Trib and Sun Times and ask them to print that story, that Illinois is to cowardly to schedule us. The Illini have never done us any favors, we have nothing to lose.

(06-27-2016 06:02 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 05:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 03:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  

(06-24-2016 10:57 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  I am legitimately jealous of Texas State's stadium. Hopefully ours looks like that soon.

I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Actually per Carey and SF, Illinois refuse to play us now and wont play us until they get better.

Well, if they get "better", we should refuse to play them unless we get 2 games at Huskie Stadium for 1 game there. F 'em.

We should go to the Trib and Sun Times and ask them to print that story, that Illinois is to cowardly to schedule us. The Illini have never done us any favors, we have nothing to lose.

Paging Barry Rozner...

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(06-27-2016 07:28 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 06:02 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  We should go to the Trib and Sun Times and ask them to print that story, that Illinois is to cowardly to schedule us. The Illini have never done us any favors, we have nothing to lose.

Paging Barry Rozner...
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And is Rod Carey, SF or anyone in NIU athletics going to speak "on the record" and offer proof to their statement? No one at the Trib, Sun-Times, or Rozner is going to write that article without someone speaking on the record and offering a plausible explanation because the ILL-ness will simply deny it and talk about previous commitments, the need to give their fans more home games, keeping options open for games versus other P5s, on and on excuses.

(06-27-2016 05:48 PM)PrideinthePack Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 03:47 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  1. Because they are in Texas so its good for AZ St recruiting IN Texas.

I've never understood why this matters. How does playing a game in Texas help Arizona St with recruiting in the state of Texas? Could someone explain it to me?

Its also the same as how its a good thing when NIU plays in Florida...

You get a mention in the local sports news/papers to increase your brand/school awareness in that region.

You have a large set of new eyeballs watching your team on TV.

You have a chance to show those recruits that they have a chance to play close to home every once in a while.

I am sure there are more but those are the things that stick out for me.

(06-28-2016 08:30 AM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 05:48 PM)PrideinthePack Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 03:47 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  1. Because they are in Texas so its good for AZ St recruiting IN Texas.

I've never understood why this matters. How does playing a game in Texas help Arizona St with recruiting in the state of Texas? Could someone explain it to me?

Its also the same as how its a good thing when NIU plays in Florida...

You get a mention in the local sports news/papers to increase your brand/school awareness in that region.

You have a large set of new eyeballs watching your team on TV.

You have a chance to show those recruits that they have a chance to play close to home every once in a while.

I am sure there are more but those are the things that stick out for me.

I think that last one- showing recruits that they'll get a "home" game is an underrated reason. If you're asking kids to move a ways away from home, from a place outside your conference footprint, getting guys that "home" game friends and family can get to has value.

(06-27-2016 06:02 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 05:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 03:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  

(06-24-2016 10:57 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  I am legitimately jealous of Texas State's stadium. Hopefully ours looks like that soon.

I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Actually per Carey and SF, Illinois refuse to play us now and wont play us until they get better.

Well, if they get "better", we should refuse to play them unless we get 2 games at Huskie Stadium for 1 game there. F 'em.

We should go to the Trib and Sun Times and ask them to print that story, that Illinois is to cowardly to schedule us. The Illini have never done us any favors, we have nothing to lose.

We should use the Clubber Lang strategy to get on their schedule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ntFroiHOA

(06-28-2016 11:28 AM)Huskie_Jon Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 06:02 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 05:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(06-27-2016 03:15 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-25-2016 06:23 AM)Stpetebeachrocketfan Wrote:  I think some on this board were led to believe that certain teams would not play at NIU because they were afraid of losing or the stadium wasn't big enough. We all know now that was complete BS because your current AD scheduled all of the good home and home teams when NIU was playing its best football and we are not even certain if NIU will have the funds or the need to make their stadium bigger, especially with the budget crises in Illinois. You would think teams would be even more afraid to play NIU when Frazier was scheduling them? With that being said, some schools including UT have been doing this for a very long time, well before TSU or NIU. The bottom line is that your last AD simply didn't schedule them. He also took the easy road and scheduled the money games, for example, four one and done games with Nebraska to help NIU bring in more revenue. The current AD has worked very hard to bring in revenue in other ways such as premium seating options and selling beer, the game in Chicago, etc that now that helps NIU get away from the money games. Think what you want but it was a choice and the old AD and the ones before him took the one and done/money game route. These teams will schedule one for ones, its happening fairly often these days. Most of the one for ones that UT has scheduled are either no pay both ways or equal pay both ways. In other words if you play at the Glass Bowl we will play at your place for free if you place at our place for free OR some of them we will play at your place for less if you match that amount when you play at UT for less.

Actually per Carey and SF, Illinois refuse to play us now and wont play us until they get better.

Well, if they get "better", we should refuse to play them unless we get 2 games at Huskie Stadium for 1 game there. F 'em.

We should go to the Trib and Sun Times and ask them to print that story, that Illinois is to cowardly to schedule us. The Illini have never done us any favors, we have nothing to lose.

We should use the Clubber Lang strategy to get on their schedule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ntFroiHOA

I agree. We should try to sleep with their significant others until they challenge us out of anger. It's failproof

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I think the last one is the only one that makes sense. The first two reasons made sense like 30 years ago. I can't see a kid choosing to come here because of mentions in a newspaper.