Welp. I'm hoping for a big portal season for us because next year's team will still be young. based on graduation and incoming freshman I'm estimating 42 upperclassmen and 80 underclassmen.

I hope our new coach doesn't say the word "rebuild". It's like we've been rebuilding since 2020

(10-17-2026 10:34 PM)mustangfootball2004 Wrote:  Welp. I'm hoping for a big portal season for us because next year's team will still be young. based on graduation and incoming freshman I'm estimating 42 upperclassmen and 80 underclassmen.

Pretty sure we’ve turned over like half the roster the last two years. Would expect even more with a coaching change.

I bet tyger stays if the new staff wants him. No way anyone offers him anything over what we have.

He isn’t having a “transfer for a raise” type year.

And everyone else can just leave. Maybe see if the DTs will stay.

So I gave the team Grace because the teams we lost to were winners. Heck, even ISU was coming off a natty kind of year at the FCS level.

But we just got blown out by a dookie Wyoming team that got blown out by NDSU and the Chips. If we lost all of our games in a respectable manner, I would have been okay with Harley....realistically this team doesn't have the tools to succeed.

However we straight up stink, and we are probably the worst team in the FBS. Forget a deep breath, we SUCK.

Also 7 is right. Blaming President Freeman is lazy. I mean she's at all the games, and managing sports is on STFs desk, not hers. I don't agree with her perceived politics, but that is what is dominant in Higher Education nationwide. The enrollment numbers stink, but this is prevalent across most schools in the state and there are a multitude of factors beyond our control. I'm not making an excuse for her, because certainly we could have a better president. But she has also commissioned the...

New Stevens Center
Baustert Bahwell Health Technology Center
And this place...https://newsroom.niu.edu/niu-breaks-ground-on-21-5-million-northern-illinois-center-for-community-sustainability/#gsc.tab=0

And to be fair, she never wanted to be president in the first place. Remember she was interim, and those I knew within NIU central command thrust her into the role she never wanted to begin with (when I was getting my masters), following the Doug Baker regime. So if it's anybody's fault if you don't like NIU, it would be NIU in entirety.

(10-17-2026 10:38 PM)JeffNIU Wrote:  

(10-17-2026 10:34 PM)mustangfootball2004 Wrote:  Welp. I'm hoping for a big portal season for us because next year's team will still be young. based on graduation and incoming freshman I'm estimating 42 upperclassmen and 80 underclassmen.

Pretty sure we’ve turned over like half the roster the last two years. Would expect even more with a coaching change.

For once we should welcome players hitting the portal. I think there is a science to roster building in the portal era. Hammock could never figure it out. Also, let's say we hire the Montana or UC Davis coach. He will probably bring all his good players. all his lineman. lol

(10-18-2026 08:24 AM)mustangfootball2004 Wrote:  

(10-17-2026 10:38 PM)JeffNIU Wrote:  

(10-17-2026 10:34 PM)mustangfootball2004 Wrote:  Welp. I'm hoping for a big portal season for us because next year's team will still be young. based on graduation and incoming freshman I'm estimating 42 upperclassmen and 80 underclassmen.

Pretty sure we’ve turned over like half the roster the last two years. Would expect even more with a coaching change.

For once we should welcome players hitting the portal. I think there is a science to roster building in the portal era. Hammock could never figure it out. Also, let's say we hire the Montana or UC Davis coach. He will probably bring all his good players. all his lineman. lol

There ABSOLUTELY is. Just like there is in pro football. Bill Clark at UAB understood the mission.

(10-18-2026 07:52 AM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  So I gave the team Grace because the teams we lost to were winners. Heck, even ISU was coming off a natty kind of year at the FCS level.

But we just got blown out by a dookie Wyoming team that got blown out by NDSU and the Chips. If we lost all of our games in a respectable manner, I would have been okay with Harley....realistically this team doesn't have the tools to succeed.

However we straight up stink, and we are probably the worst team in the FBS. Forget a deep breath, we SUCK.

Also 7 is right. Blaming President Freeman is lazy. I mean she's at all the games, and managing sports is on STFs desk, not hers. I don't agree with her perceived politics, but that is what is dominant in Higher Education nationwide. The enrollment numbers stink, but this is prevalent across most schools in the state and there are a multitude of factors beyond our control. I'm not making an excuse for her, because certainly we could have a better president. But she has also commissioned the...

New Stevens Center
Baustert Bahwell Health Technology Center
And this place...https://newsroom.niu.edu/niu-breaks-ground-on-21-5-million-northern-illinois-center-for-community-sustainability/#gsc.tab=0

And to be fair, she never wanted to be president in the first place. Remember she was interim, and those I knew within NIU central command thrust her into the role she never wanted to begin with (when I was getting my masters), following the Doug Baker regime. So if it's anybody's fault if you don't like NIU, it would be NIU in entirety.

Freeman did decide to dedicate NIU time and money, negligently, to attempt to manufacture an HSI when our numbers weren't even close to supporting that move. That cost us 1-3k students enrollment-wise easily over the last 5 years. Find someone who understands student recruiting (who isn't blindly defending her) to tell you otherwise. She was a bad placement, and now our hack Trustees have extended her a full extra year as she exits.

Is she highly responsible for Sean Frazier's mess on the football field? No, not directly, but she's a main cog in the failing leadership structure NIU needs to replace to be able to move forward.

The above projects are great, excited for them, but NIU is barley getting our fare share of upkeep and new construction, no awards going out in that department.

What is crazy is this shows that Hammock had seven years and he didn't build anything that would last.

Please don't start with the NIL talk. Every G6 is dealing with it and it is just an excuse for poor coaching and recruiting. New Mexico sucked and their new head coaching staff turned them into a winner.

Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

Sean Frazier has caused our season ticket fanbase to decay, he is abusive to employees that work for him, he ignores fans or treats them like complete crap, and he was looking to leave NIU on Month 2 since being here. How can this guy be allowed to collect a paycheck

(10-18-2026 10:30 AM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 07:52 AM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  So I gave the team Grace because the teams we lost to were winners. Heck, even ISU was coming off a natty kind of year at the FCS level.

But we just got blown out by a dookie Wyoming team that got blown out by NDSU and the Chips. If we lost all of our games in a respectable manner, I would have been okay with Harley....realistically this team doesn't have the tools to succeed.

However we straight up stink, and we are probably the worst team in the FBS. Forget a deep breath, we SUCK.

Also 7 is right. Blaming President Freeman is lazy. I mean she's at all the games, and managing sports is on STFs desk, not hers. I don't agree with her perceived politics, but that is what is dominant in Higher Education nationwide. The enrollment numbers stink, but this is prevalent across most schools in the state and there are a multitude of factors beyond our control. I'm not making an excuse for her, because certainly we could have a better president. But she has also commissioned the...

New Stevens Center
Baustert Bahwell Health Technology Center
And this place...https://newsroom.niu.edu/niu-breaks-ground-on-21-5-million-northern-illinois-center-for-community-sustainability/#gsc.tab=0

And to be fair, she never wanted to be president in the first place. Remember she was interim, and those I knew within NIU central command thrust her into the role she never wanted to begin with (when I was getting my masters), following the Doug Baker regime. So if it's anybody's fault if you don't like NIU, it would be NIU in entirety.

Freeman did decide to dedicate NIU time and money, negligently, to attempt to manufacture an HSI when our numbers weren't even close to supporting that move. That cost us 1-3k students enrollment-wise easily over the last 5 years. Find someone who understands student recruiting (who isn't blindly defending her) to tell you otherwise. She was a bad placement, and now our hack Trustees have extended her a full extra year as she exits.

Is she highly responsible for Sean Frazier's mess on the football field? No, not directly, but she's a main cog in the failing leadership structure NIU needs to replace to be able to move forward.

The above projects are great, excited for them, but NIU is barley getting our fare share of upkeep and new construction, no awards going out in that department.

I'm noticing a trend that goes all the way to Freeman and has cascaded down for decades. Letting people who don't really want the job stay in the job.

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

I'd say you can go ahead and call him out on here. He has never had a problem doing the same to others on here.

(10-18-2026 11:57 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

I'd say you can go ahead and call him out on here. He has never had a problem doing the same to others on here.

How miserable are you people that I took a week off from calling the head coach an idiot because I was traveling with the team and this is the reaction lmao. This season is a disaster and Frazier holds a huge part in the responsibility because he was the one who hired hammock. Nothing has changed except I gave them some grace for a week because I watched Harley grind film the entire flight home.

I was invited to travel with the team to the first mountain west game like two years ago when we joined it. I didn’t get invited recently as some sort of unpaid PR effort from Frazier.

Appreciate you guys reading my tweets though!

(10-18-2026 12:00 PM)7 Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:57 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

I'd say you can go ahead and call him out on here. He has never had a problem doing the same to others on here.

How miserable are you people that I took a week off from calling the head coach an idiot because I was traveling with the team lmao. This season is a disaster and Frazier holds a huge part in the responsibility because he was the one who hired hammock. Nothing has changed except I gave them some grace for a week because I watched Harley grind film the entire flight home.

I was invited to travel with the team to the first mountain west game like two years ago when we joined it. I didn’t get invited recently as some sort of unpaid PR effort from Frazier.

Appreciate you guys reading my tweets though!

I can assure each one of you, that NIU does not have a social media espionage team. We can't even afford new toilets at Huskie Stadium... It's possible some people have different opinions than you, without believing this is some NIU psyop

Come on now, we are broke as hell ...we WISH we had that ability

(10-18-2026 12:04 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 12:00 PM)7 Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:57 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

I'd say you can go ahead and call him out on here. He has never had a problem doing the same to others on here.

How miserable are you people that I took a week off from calling the head coach an idiot because I was traveling with the team lmao. This season is a disaster and Frazier holds a huge part in the responsibility because he was the one who hired hammock. Nothing has changed except I gave them some grace for a week because I watched Harley grind film the entire flight home.

I was invited to travel with the team to the first mountain west game like two years ago when we joined it. I didn’t get invited recently as some sort of unpaid PR effort from Frazier.

Appreciate you guys reading my tweets though!

I can assure each one of you, that NIU does not have a social media espionage team. We can't even afford new toilets at Huskie Stadium... It's possible some people have different opinions than you, without believing this is some NIU psyop

Come on now, we are broke as hell ...we WISH we had that ability

It costs almost nothing to stick him on an already chartered airplane. You can just put him in the jump seat so he is easily ejectable out the emergency exit if he tweets something negative.

Never forget that Frazier said it was his goal to take NIU to the FCS, he is essentially nearing his goal

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

Someone's getting paid???? I'm doing this all wrong.

(10-18-2026 12:04 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 12:00 PM)7 Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:57 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

I'd say you can go ahead and call him out on here. He has never had a problem doing the same to others on here.

How miserable are you people that I took a week off from calling the head coach an idiot because I was traveling with the team lmao. This season is a disaster and Frazier holds a huge part in the responsibility because he was the one who hired hammock. Nothing has changed except I gave them some grace for a week because I watched Harley grind film the entire flight home.

I was invited to travel with the team to the first mountain west game like two years ago when we joined it. I didn’t get invited recently as some sort of unpaid PR effort from Frazier.

Appreciate you guys reading my tweets though!

I can assure each one of you, that NIU does not have a social media espionage team. We can't even afford new toilets at Huskie Stadium... It's possible some people have different opinions than you, without believing this is some NIU psyop

Come on now, we are broke as hell ...we WISH we had that ability

I think if we installed new toilets that would qualify as a remodel and it would ignite having to remodel the entire west side. Literally we can't touch the Westside.

(10-18-2026 02:17 PM)mustangfootball2004 Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 12:04 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 12:00 PM)7 Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:57 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(10-18-2026 11:10 AM)Huskies_1030 Wrote:  Its so funny how a few people on this board are being paid on X.com to defend Sean Frazier. I think Sean is truly worried now that is hiring publicists to paint a positive image of him. He can Frazier still be employed?

I'd say you can go ahead and call him out on here. He has never had a problem doing the same to others on here.

How miserable are you people that I took a week off from calling the head coach an idiot because I was traveling with the team lmao. This season is a disaster and Frazier holds a huge part in the responsibility because he was the one who hired hammock. Nothing has changed except I gave them some grace for a week because I watched Harley grind film the entire flight home.

I was invited to travel with the team to the first mountain west game like two years ago when we joined it. I didn’t get invited recently as some sort of unpaid PR effort from Frazier.

Appreciate you guys reading my tweets though!

I can assure each one of you, that NIU does not have a social media espionage team. We can't even afford new toilets at Huskie Stadium... It's possible some people have different opinions than you, without believing this is some NIU psyop

Come on now, we are broke as hell ...we WISH we had that ability

I think if we installed new toilets that would qualify as a remodel and it would ignite having to remodel the entire west side. Literally we can't touch the Westside.

They did pay for one person to embed with them, good point though, is NIU financially stable enough to afford these all expense vacations for people to portray athletics dept employees in a positive light