(10-26-2026 06:15 AM)Lynchpin Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 11:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 07:07 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 07:06 PM)holybovine Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 10:59 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hawaii fans are in their forum clowning our stadium, town, and wondering why we got into the MWC....we need a massive overhaul to literally everything

They have a forum???

Thought that died with June Jones and Colt Brennan.

They have two of them.

https://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewforum.php?f=3

https://247sports.com/college/hawaii/board/

Found this post by a Hawai’i fan who attended the game. Was he teleported into DeKalb? What the hell is he talking about?

Quote: Btw DeKalb is in the middle of no where. Surrounded by corn fields and farms.

Zero interstate. Highways……u get there by driving 2 lane country roads.

Dude must have had his maps set to avoid tolls or something and taken God knows what route from Ohare. Definitely a bit of a pompous and arrogant crew. Oh well, most the criticism thrown our way is justified. On the administration and next coach to start fixing it

Aloha stadium was literally rusting from the get, it was condemned in 2020 and wasn't even demolished until Dec 2025 ...and they play in a soccer stadium with a bunch of temporary stands

Idk what's worse, Huskie Stadium just sucking or building a crappy stadium and watching it fall apart with no real plan for the last decade

There's a lot of parallels between the programs, a lot of what we complain about they do too. Todd Graham is their version of Rod Carey. Timmy Chang is their Thomas Hammock. They feel just about as underfunded as we do. Can't afford to fire Timmy lol.

(10-26-2026 06:15 AM)Lynchpin Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 11:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 07:07 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 07:06 PM)holybovine Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 10:59 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hawaii fans are in their forum clowning our stadium, town, and wondering why we got into the MWC....we need a massive overhaul to literally everything

They have a forum???

Thought that died with June Jones and Colt Brennan.

They have two of them.

https://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewforum.php?f=3

https://247sports.com/college/hawaii/board/

Found this post by a Hawai’i fan who attended the game. Was he teleported into DeKalb? What the hell is he talking about?

Quote: Btw DeKalb is in the middle of no where. Surrounded by corn fields and farms.

Zero interstate. Highways……u get there by driving 2 lane country roads.

Dude must have had his maps set to avoid tolls or something and taken God knows what route from Ohare. Definitely a bit of a pompous and arrogant crew. Oh well, most the criticism thrown our way is justified. On the administration and next coach to start fixing it

Yeah that dude is a troll … those country roads are scenic and chill … we do need a new stadium though …

Sean Frazier needs to go. Our football program has tanked under his "leadership" and I don't trust him to hire the next head coach.

New conspiracy.

Notre Dame funded other schools to pay for NIU kids to transfer, as revenge for humiliating them on NBC.

Also in this conspiracy, 7 is the one who organized the whole thing for them.... Because this gives us the D2 roster Huskie 1030 said 7s daddy wanted to play NAIA ball

(10-26-2026 12:10 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  New conspiracy.

Notre Dame funded other schools to pay for NIU kids to transfer, as revenge for humiliating them on NBC.

Also in this conspiracy, 7 is the one who organized the whole thing for them.... Because this gives us the D2 roster Huskie 1030 said 7s daddy wanted to play NAIA ball

No conspiracy and no fake news! My resources in Athletics told me that this is all true.

Only winless team in the country and now also own the nation’s longest losing streak. We have returned to the 90s. Like the CMU game in the rain back then, look forward to seeing the goal posts come down again when we break the streak in 2028.

(10-25-2026 11:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 07:07 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 07:06 PM)holybovine Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 10:59 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hawaii fans are in their forum clowning our stadium, town, and wondering why we got into the MWC....we need a massive overhaul to literally everything

They have a forum???

Thought that died with June Jones and Colt Brennan.

They have two of them.

https://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewforum.php?f=3

https://247sports.com/college/hawaii/board/

Found this post by a Hawai’i fan who attended the game. Was he teleported into DeKalb? What the hell is he talking about?

Quote: Btw DeKalb is in the middle of no where. Surrounded by corn fields and farms.

Zero interstate. Highways……u get there by driving 2 lane country roads.

He must be talking about Mount Pleasant Michigan.

UNLV Rebels
(4-3, 2-1 Conf)
-24.5


The very bottom.

Hypothetical, if aliens came and blew up Huskie Stadium and left...how do you think the admin/state would respond?

I'm thinking it would be a decade till they did anything to replace Huskie Stadium. And we would play our games at Seat Geek as the slow wheels of bureaucracy turned.

It's a fun thought.

(10-26-2026 02:21 PM)DiehardHuskie Wrote:  Only winless team in the country and now also own the nation’s longest losing streak. We have returned to the 90s. Like the CMU game in the rain back then, look forward to seeing the goal posts come down again when we break the streak in 2028.

Not enough students at Huskie Stadium and the alums too old to chip in.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This staff should be embarrassed.

And I can’t see any of them ever coaching again. This team is so bad at everything it’s crazy.

(10-26-2026 04:12 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hypothetical, if aliens came and blew up Huskie Stadium and left...how do you think the admin/state would respond?

I'm thinking it would be a decade till they did anything to replace Huskie Stadium. And we would play our games at Seat Geek as the slow wheels of bureaucracy turned.

It's a fun thought.

Hopefully not like the Tampa Bay Rays. To save $250k a year, dropped insurance to $25 million. Now government is on hook for $50+ million

(10-26-2026 05:24 PM)Klake1987 Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 04:12 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hypothetical, if aliens came and blew up Huskie Stadium and left...how do you think the admin/state would respond?

I'm thinking it would be a decade till they did anything to replace Huskie Stadium. And we would play our games at Seat Geek as the slow wheels of bureaucracy turned.

It's a fun thought.

Hopefully not like the Tampa Bay Rays. To save $250k a year, dropped insurance to $25 million. Now government is on hook for $50+ million

What! I check with the Tampa Bay Times daily have not heard anything about your claim. Sources please.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!! and Rays

(10-26-2026 06:41 PM)pantone1935 Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 05:24 PM)Klake1987 Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 04:12 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hypothetical, if aliens came and blew up Huskie Stadium and left...how do you think the admin/state would respond?

I'm thinking it would be a decade till they did anything to replace Huskie Stadium. And we would play our games at Seat Geek as the slow wheels of bureaucracy turned.

It's a fun thought.

Hopefully not like the Tampa Bay Rays. To save $250k a year, dropped insurance to $25 million. Now government is on hook for $50+ million

What! I check with the Tampa Bay Times daily have not heard anything about your claim. Sources please.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!! and Rays

GO BREWERS!

(10-26-2026 04:05 PM)El Duderino Wrote:  UNLV Rebels
(4-3, 2-1 Conf)
-24.5


The very bottom.

Does Vegas know something we don’t know? A 1-6 team just beat us by 35 on our own field. UNLV will tear us limb from limb. They’ll have to invoke the mercy rule.

I will be in every sports book on the strip Saturday morning hammering every UNLV bet I can find.

From an earlier post I put up on another thread ... more MW OL beef here.

Road game next at UNLV.

The UNLV OL ... 20 guys. Average 313 lbs. 12 of 20 are at least 6-5. There are 5 under 300 lbs. but 4 are frosh. 15 of 20 are soph-jr-sr. That includes a 6-8 jr at 325 and a 6-7 soph at 305. The "midget" is 6-1 but 320 and a sr.

Lucky us.

(10-26-2026 05:24 PM)Klake1987 Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 04:12 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  Hypothetical, if aliens came and blew up Huskie Stadium and left...how do you think the admin/state would respond?

I'm thinking it would be a decade till they did anything to replace Huskie Stadium. And we would play our games at Seat Geek as the slow wheels of bureaucracy turned.

It's a fun thought.

Hopefully not like the Tampa Bay Rays. To save $250k a year, dropped insurance to $25 million. Now government is on hook for $50+ million

First off tropicana field is owned by the city of st pete. THEY, the city, paid the $22 mil deductible. The state of florida chipped in $2.75 mil in state recovery disaster grants and fema kicked in $16.5 mil. So where ever your figures came from they were WRONG.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!

So correct me if I'm wrong. But things are looking up financially, for football at least....that is if we follow the terms of our contract with the MWC

So we are to receive $34M over the course of the next 6 years.

• Signing Bonus: $1.5 million upfront.
• MAC Exit Fee Assistance: Up to $2.5 million covered by the Mountain West.
• Media-Rights Share: Starts at a 75% share in 2026, rising to an 85% share for full-member media value distribution in subsequent seasons.

While we offer
• Conference Entrance Fee: $2 million total, payable in six annual installments (approximately $333,333.35 per year), approved by the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees. This fee is funded through conference revenue distributions and guarantees rather than institutional operating funds.

And MOST importantly...
• Football Budget Requirements: NIU is required to scale its football budget to $13.5 million in 2026 and $15 million in 2027.

So regardless of what we think the deal is, we get more money flowing in and we are supposed to spend more on our program. Thus forcing us to be competitive and giving us the ability to go out and get players, as well as a competent coaching staff.

If all these hold true, this is as bottom as it gets...at least financially

HuskiesBelieve, help me out here with some optimism...7 what did Daddy tell you?

(10-26-2026 09:01 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  So correct me if I'm wrong. But things are looking up financially, for football at least....that is if we follow the terms of our contract with the MWC

So we are to receive $34M over the course of the next 6 years.

• Signing Bonus: $1.5 million upfront.
• MAC Exit Fee Assistance: Up to $2.5 million covered by the Mountain West.
• Media-Rights Share: Starts at a 75% share in 2026, rising to an 85% share for full-member media value distribution in subsequent seasons.

While we offer
• Conference Entrance Fee: $2 million total, payable in six annual installments (approximately $333,333.35 per year), approved by the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees. This fee is funded through conference revenue distributions and guarantees rather than institutional operating funds.

And MOST importantly...
• Football Budget Requirements: NIU is required to scale its football budget to $13.5 million in 2026 and $15 million in 2027.

So regardless of what we think the deal is, we get more money flowing in and we are supposed to spend more on our program. Thus forcing us to be competitive and giving us the ability to go out and get players, as well as a competent coaching staff.

If all these hold true, this is as bottom as it gets...at least financially

HuskiesBelieve, help me out here with some optimism...7 what did Daddy tell you?

Yep, that is the plan. They scrambled after Ham left and gave Harley a chance but so far he is struggling and made many early decisions that left this board scratching their heads … he can still learn and end on a higher note by winning some games in the second half of the season but there is a good reason why he was interim but I hope he improves if he still wants to be in the coaching industry … they will most likely find a new coach and are betting on some sort of regulation of the college environment .. they tried to be frugal/cheap while trying to still be developmental but the strategy hasn’t been working to win games anymore( since its peak winning against ND) and most players will leave with a higher paycheck so I hope they have a new strategy going forward and hope they pass something to save smaller programs from going bankrupt … they did try to win this year by getting Tyga but there was just too many gaps that they didn’t see I guess … if this is a young team I really hope they can find their groove the second half and stop making these ridiculous errors .. can anybody see if Harley is working his tail off? Anyway, I am still happy we are in the MW with their higher media right that gives us a better chance in the next few years but we need to make the right hires and start renovating the stadium … even start with just the west side that can fit with a larger stadium plan …. It will be so sweet when we turn this around and start playing like the NiU huskies we know and love .. Go Huskies!

Get more involved and find lost fans to support the school .. we really need it for the whole school, not just athletics, the alumni need to support and not just financially but with their connections, time and ingenuity !