(01-05-2023 03:30 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: [ -> ]Everyone get your Huskie Football 2022 Season Survey in the e-mail today? Several questions on fan and game day experience. I completed mine and gave them a lot to read.
How many times did you say "Toledo"?
(01-05-2023 06:36 PM)HUSKIEFOOTBALLFAN Wrote: [ -> ] (01-05-2023 03:30 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: [ -> ]Everyone get your Huskie Football 2022 Season Survey in the e-mail today? Several questions on fan and game day experience. I completed mine and gave them a lot to read.
How many times did you say "Toledo"?
Zero. But don’t ask me how many times I mentioned hot dogs and urinal troughs.
Does anybody know what the hell Frazier's plan is? For anything?
(01-07-2023 12:02 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 11:55 AM)pvk75 Wrote: [ -> ]Does anybody know what the hell Frazier's plan is? For anything?
Keep collecting salary.
...bury head in sand, surface momentarily when social-nicety accolade is obtained. Repeat.
(01-07-2023 02:34 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 12:02 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 11:55 AM)pvk75 Wrote: [ -> ]Does anybody know what the hell Frazier's plan is? For anything?
Keep collecting salary.
...bury head in sand, surface momentarily when meaningless social-nicety accolade is obtained.
I mean your not wrong. He seems to have given up on improving huskie stadium and all things NIU football related. Seems like he is more pre-occupied by getting individual diversity awards vs actually improving NIU athletics.
(01-07-2023 03:11 PM)JoeNovak Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 02:34 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 12:02 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 11:55 AM)pvk75 Wrote: [ -> ]Does anybody know what the hell Frazier's plan is? For anything?
Keep collecting salary.
...bury head in sand, surface momentarily when meaningless social-nicety accolade is obtained.
I mean your not wrong. He seems to have given up on improving huskie stadium and all things NIU football related. Seems like he is more pre-occupied by getting individual diversity awards vs actually improving NIU athletics.
For information: I believe some departments/colleges/programs now have a dedicated "d.e.i." person as part of a university-wide policy. This may be booked in each entity's budget, but I do not know how it is financed or the costs. It may also be centralized with support to various entities.
For more info, check this:
https://www.niu.edu/diversity/about/equity.shtml
(01-07-2023 03:27 PM)pvk75 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 03:11 PM)JoeNovak Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 02:34 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 12:02 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (01-07-2023 11:55 AM)pvk75 Wrote: [ -> ]Does anybody know what the hell Frazier's plan is? For anything?
Keep collecting salary.
...bury head in sand, surface momentarily when meaningless social-nicety accolade is obtained.
I mean your not wrong. He seems to have given up on improving huskie stadium and all things NIU football related. Seems like he is more pre-occupied by getting individual diversity awards vs actually improving NIU athletics.
For information: I believe some departments/colleges/programs now have a dedicated "d.e.i." person as part of a university-wide policy. This may be booked in each entity's budget, but I do not know how it is financed or the costs. It may also be centralized with support to various entities.
For more info, check this:
https://www.niu.edu/diversity/about/equity.shtml
Michigan is spending 18 million on DEI. I love the comments. DEI with 142 staff on the payroll.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/university-mi...53474.html
Being the AD at NIU is not a great job. The state is broke. Student fees are a huge source of "income". Enrollment has been down for well over a decade. Alumni do not financially support NIU. It is a tough job. The people in this board are die hard NIU supporters but their are just a handful. Now I ou have woke leaders heading down a path that turns off some donors. I don't envy Frazier. Is he perfect, no but he is doing the best he can with limited resources. Only people wanting a paycheck would take this job. NIU is not the cream of the crop.
(01-24-2023 10:37 AM)Klake1987 Wrote: [ -> ]Being the AD at NIU is not a great job. The state is broke. Student fees are a huge source of "income". Enrollment has been down for well over a decade. Alumni do not financially support NIU. It is a tough job. The people in this board are die hard NIU supporters but their are just a handful. Now I ou have woke leaders heading down a path that turns off some donors. I don't envy Frazier. Is he perfect, no but he is doing the best he can with limited resources. Only people wanting a paycheck would take this job. NIU is not the cream of the crop.
But but we made the Orange Bowl a decade ago...
(01-24-2023 10:37 AM)Klake1987 Wrote: [ -> ]Being the AD at NIU is not a great job. The state is broke. Student fees are a huge source of "income". Enrollment has been down for well over a decade. Alumni do not financially support NIU. It is a tough job. The people in this board are die hard NIU supporters but their are just a handful. Now I ou have woke leaders heading down a path that turns off some donors. I don't envy Frazier. Is he perfect, no but he is doing the best he can with limited resources. Only people wanting a paycheck would take this job. NIU is not the cream of the crop.
I agree that his hands are tied but I also don't think he's doing the best he can do. Expectations need to be tempered but the expectation of communication and effort should be sustained.
The problem with Frazier is that from day one he treated NIU like a mini Wisconsin or a mini Alabama. But that was wrong! Comparing NIU athletics to athletics at Wisconsin or Alabama is like comparing apples to elephants. Frazier limited availability of season tickets or tickets for "big games" or road game tickets and trips and parking and etc etc etc. That all should be perks for large donors, he thought.
He turned off the average fan, and showed NO INTEREST in the "casual fan." Students were also an after thought.
So yeah. It's a difficult job. But his failures made it much more so.
(01-24-2023 12:48 PM)chihuskie Wrote: [ -> ]The problem with Frazier is that from day one he treated NIU like a mini Wisconsin or a mini Alabama. But that was wrong! Comparing NIU athletics to athletics at Wisconsin or Alabama is like comparing apples to elephants. Frazier limited availability of season tickets or tickets for "big games" or road game tickets and trips and parking and etc etc etc. That all should be perks for large donors, he thought.
He turned off the average fan, and showed NO INTEREST in the "casual fan." Students were also an after thought.
So yeah. It's a difficult job. But his failures made it much more so.
Excellent Summary. Add to it University Administrations that have drove
the student population and fans away with its stupidity (current Administration for its inane policies and past Administrations for graft and destroying DeKalb as a safe place to live and visit) as well and you get the sad situation NIU faces today.
(01-24-2023 01:14 PM)HuskieJ Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2023 12:48 PM)chihuskie Wrote: [ -> ]The problem with Frazier is that from day one he treated NIU like a mini Wisconsin or a mini Alabama. But that was wrong! Comparing NIU athletics to athletics at Wisconsin or Alabama is like comparing apples to elephants. Frazier limited availability of season tickets or tickets for "big games" or road game tickets and trips and parking and etc etc etc. That all should be perks for large donors, he thought.
He turned off the average fan, and showed NO INTEREST in the "casual fan." Students were also an after thought.
So yeah. It's a difficult job. But his failures made it much more so.
Excellent Summary. Add to it University Administrations that have drove
the student population and fans away with its stupidity (current Administration for its inane policies and past Administrations for graft and destroying DeKalb as a safe place to live and visit) as well and you get the sad situation NIU faces today.
This is almost statewide (all but UofI and ISU). And if I'm not mistaken, didn't all of our neighboring states do away with out of state tuition for Illinois residents? Seems like the state and our schools got caught with their pants down on that one.
(01-24-2023 01:21 PM)Big Red Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2023 01:14 PM)HuskieJ Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2023 12:48 PM)chihuskie Wrote: [ -> ]The problem with Frazier is that from day one he treated NIU like a mini Wisconsin or a mini Alabama. But that was wrong! Comparing NIU athletics to athletics at Wisconsin or Alabama is like comparing apples to elephants. Frazier limited availability of season tickets or tickets for "big games" or road game tickets and trips and parking and etc etc etc. That all should be perks for large donors, he thought.
He turned off the average fan, and showed NO INTEREST in the "casual fan." Students were also an after thought.
So yeah. It's a difficult job. But his failures made it much more so.
Excellent Summary. Add to it University Administrations that have drove
the student population and fans away with its stupidity (current Administration for its inane policies and past Administrations for graft and destroying DeKalb as a safe place to live and visit) as well and you get the sad situation NIU faces today.
This is almost statewide (all but UofI and ISU). And if I'm not mistaken, didn't all of our neighboring states do away with out of state tuition for Illinois residents? Seems like the state and our schools got caught with their pants down on that one.
Add UIC to the list of winners as well. U of I brought in 6,000 Chinese students to help ease their issues, ISU and UIC just out-marketed NIU for the remaining decent students that did not go out of state. NIU has been asleep at the switch for 25 years while all the neighboring states took out provisions for out of state so that their tuition was even lower than NIU. NIU missed a chance decades ago to offset the student population decline and now many of NIU's once proud programs are a shell of what they were. Added to the depressing news is an incoming class has a good fake GPA, but reads at a 8/9 grade level with little to no math or science skills.
(01-24-2023 02:05 PM)HuskieJ Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2023 01:21 PM)Big Red Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2023 01:14 PM)HuskieJ Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2023 12:48 PM)chihuskie Wrote: [ -> ]The problem with Frazier is that from day one he treated NIU like a mini Wisconsin or a mini Alabama. But that was wrong! Comparing NIU athletics to athletics at Wisconsin or Alabama is like comparing apples to elephants. Frazier limited availability of season tickets or tickets for "big games" or road game tickets and trips and parking and etc etc etc. That all should be perks for large donors, he thought.
He turned off the average fan, and showed NO INTEREST in the "casual fan." Students were also an after thought.
So yeah. It's a difficult job. But his failures made it much more so.
Excellent Summary. Add to it University Administrations that have drove
the student population and fans away with its stupidity (current Administration for its inane policies and past Administrations for graft and destroying DeKalb as a safe place to live and visit) as well and you get the sad situation NIU faces today.
This is almost statewide (all but UofI and ISU). And if I'm not mistaken, didn't all of our neighboring states do away with out of state tuition for Illinois residents? Seems like the state and our schools got caught with their pants down on that one.
Add UIC to the list of winners as well. U of I brought in 6,000 Chinese students to help ease their issues, ISU and UIC just out-marketed NIU for the remaining decent students that did not go out of state. NIU has been asleep at the switch for 25 years while all the neighboring states took out provisions for out of state so that their tuition was even lower than NIU. NIU missed a chance decades ago to offset the student population decline and now many of NIU's once proud programs are a shell of what they were. Added to the depressing news is an incoming class has a good fake GPA, but reads at a 8/9 grade level with little to no math or science skills.
So what is your source that our once proud programs are a shell of what they were? Where did you get the facts to back up your claim of fake GPAs?
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