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(09-29-2010 12:24 PM)HuskieFan84 Wrote:  Why not do it on a separate day? Then you have a second reason to come to the game other than homecoming. Senior day if the Oct. 23rd game doesn't work for you?

No one says you have to do it on homecoming.

c'mon....lets put ourselves in this scenario. do you think any extra casual fans will show up to other games just because you are honoring a championship team of yore? especially in the MAC? i don't think so. honoring a championship team is not done to draw more fans. its done on an already high profile day to get maximum coverage.
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(09-29-2010 12:12 PM)NiuCoils Wrote:  I really don't care if it's classy, classless, intentional or coincidence that Akron honors the 2005 MACC team this Saturday. But I do know it pumps me up to want to see footballs crammed down their throat that much more.

That sums up my feeling.

I don't think there's anything tasteless about it. If I were an Akron fan, I'd love the choice to honor the '05 team against the program they beat.

But we're all Huskie fans, so it drives us nuts.
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(09-29-2010 12:50 PM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  
(09-29-2010 12:24 PM)HuskieFan84 Wrote:  Why not do it on a separate day? Then you have a second reason to come to the game other than homecoming. Senior day if the Oct. 23rd game doesn't work for you?

No one says you have to do it on homecoming.

c'mon....lets put ourselves in this scenario. do you think any extra casual fans will show up to other games just because you are honoring a championship team of yore? especially in the MAC? i don't think so. honoring a championship team is not done to draw more fans. its done on an already high profile day to get maximum coverage.

Actually, I think it's a good idea. It helps to get recent grads back to campus to relive some cherished memories of football glory. It is a way to keep recent grads engaged. It's fun and as someone already mentioned, gets the fans on both sides a little fired-up. There's no downside. We'd do the same or people would be b!tching about our marketing, etc.

Akron isn't dissing us in their game notes, either. This is from "streaks, storylines, sidebars:"
http://www.gozips.com//pdf8/713796.pdf?S...M_ID=10800

• Zips wide receivers coach Frisman Jackson began his collegiate
career playing quarterback for two seasons at Northern
Illinois. For the Huskies, he completed 109-of-259 passes for
1,327 yards, and still ranks on the NIU single-game charts for
his performance versus Western Michigan in the 1998 opener
when he went 24-for-34 passing for 271 yards and three TDs.
• Akron head coach Rob Ianello's wife, the former Denise
Dove, lettered in basketball at Northern Illinois from 1988-91.
The Huskies’ 1990-91 team set school records for field goals
made and attempted, posted a 25-10 overall record and made
an appearance in the WNIT. Denise scored 1,043 points, had
526 assists and grabbed 268 rebounds during her NIU career.

NIU was chosen in a preseason poll
of league media members as the favorite in the conference's
West Division, while UA was prognosticated to finish seventh
in the East Division.

The Series: Northern Illinois leads the all-time
series 6-4, following a 27-10 victory in DeKalb last
season (Oct. 31, 2009) (series is tied 1-1 in games
played in Akron). Last year's matchup marked the
first time since 2005 that the two programs had
faced off, doing so twice that season. The Zips
claimed both of those contests (48-42 in OT at
UA's Rubber Bowl on Sept. 24 and 31-30 in the
Mid-American Conference championship game at
Ford Field in Detroit on Dec. 1).
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The Friz!

He was my lifting partner the summer of '95. String bean skinny, but I saw him throw a football through the goalposts from the 50 yard line, FROM HIS KNEES.
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It is quite possible all the stars and the moon lined up to make the celebration a natural for this weekend.

However, you cannot help but feel when the schedules were released last spring, several Zips missing their flys quickly glombed onto the NIU game for the 5 yr celebration.

Kinda weird the first public introduction of the zipper was at Chgo's Columbia World's Fair, and it was not well received.

Perhaps the mascot for Akron deserves to be rubbers - the first practical application for a zipper.
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I think the Akron athletic department might also be behind the anti-NIU Big Ten referee conspiracy. I'm also not ruling them out of the JFK assassination.

I imagine them meeting in something akin to the Simpsons Republican Party Headquarters. Someone photoshop "Akron Athletic Department" on the sign:

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Republica...adquarters
[Image: 250px-Republican_party_headquarters.png]
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Thats ok. Their fans will get to witness a beatdown of their team from their shiny new stadium and wonder how our program is so much better than theirs after these 5 years.
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(09-29-2010 12:00 PM)HuskiemobileMan Wrote:  Who celebrates a 5 year "anniversary"? I could see 10 years, but not 5.
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On Homecoming NIU will celebrate 5th anniversary of opening the Barsema Vistor and Alumni Center within 300 yards of Huskie Stadium.
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(09-29-2010 03:45 PM)cyberdawg Wrote:  
(09-29-2010 12:00 PM)HuskiemobileMan Wrote:  Who celebrates a 5 year "anniversary"? I could see 10 years, but not 5.
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On Homecoming NIU will celebrate 5th anniversary of opening the Barsema Vistor and Alumni Center within 300 yards of Huskie Stadium.

hahahahahahaha.. I don't think I've ever been in that building. Maybe once for a press conference
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(09-29-2010 04:05 PM)HuskieRak Wrote:  hahahahahahaha.. I don't think I've ever been in that building. Maybe once for a press conference

I know for a fact that I've never been in it
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I don't care what anybody says to try to justify it, I think it's bush league, and it's clear I'm not the only one who falls that way.
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[Image: 200px-UAkron_Seal.svg.png]

Translation: "To Teach, To Learn, To Spite NIU"

[Image: 175px-JohnBuchtel.jpg]

"One day I envision a school opening in DeKalb, Illinois, that will come to be known as Northern Illinois, and I envision us doing everything in our power to make them miserable! There might also be some learning and junk, and maybe we can make a pass at this Lebron James kid. With that, I found the University of Akron."
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Everyone needs to calm down. This is Akron. Akron, for God's sake. They are a nobody. Their team is awful. They are irrelevant. Who cares what they're doing? We're going to roll into town and make them 0-5.
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(09-29-2010 07:06 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  Everyone needs to calm down. This is Akron. Akron, for God's sake. They are a nobody. Their team is awful. They are irrelevant. Who cares what they're doing? We're going to roll into town and make them 0-5.

exactly. this whole mac championship celebration is irrelevent (and people are paranoid that it was done to spite NIU)
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Maybe this was a big coincidence (doubt it). But even so, they should realize this and push it back a week. They are lucky nobody was on that team that is currently a Huskie.
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Exactly, even if it is a coincidence, they should have had the decency to change it once they realized who they were playing.
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(09-29-2010 02:43 PM)HuskiemobileMan Wrote:  Thats ok. Their fans will get to witness a beatdown of their team from their shiny new stadium and wonder how our program is so much better than theirs after these 5 years.

HMM, you going to the game? If so, hope you can do some twitter pictures.
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(09-29-2010 12:02 PM)niutbbucfan Wrote:  My opinion hasn't changed still, and I hope we still run the score up. Lets put 70 this weekend!

Running up the score for the sake of running up the score is poor football strategy, regardless of whether the other team deserves it. What happens if the Huskies suffer a key injury because a starter was still in a game long after the outcome was decided just to run up the score?

On the other hand, teams often get unjustly accused of running up the score. If the Huskies secure victory while there is still plenty of time left, and we start seeing Grady and/or Lynch enter the game and he starts handing off to Crider and throwing to Ashford, I hope we see even more TDs.
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Agreed.. seeing Crider run up the score on them might be more enjoyable anyway.
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(09-30-2010 09:37 AM)Huskie_Jon Wrote:  
(09-29-2010 12:02 PM)niutbbucfan Wrote:  My opinion hasn't changed still, and I hope we still run the score up. Lets put 70 this weekend!

Running up the score for the sake of running up the score is poor football strategy, regardless of whether the other team deserves it. What happens if the Huskies suffer a key injury because a starter was still in a game long after the outcome was decided just to run up the score?

On the other hand, teams often get unjustly accused of running up the score. If the Huskies secure victory while there is still plenty of time left, and we start seeing Grady and/or Lynch enter the game and he starts handing off to Crider and throwing to Ashford, I hope we see even more TDs.
never did I say who I want in there running up the score, I just don't want us to let off the gas pedal whether it's Harnish, Grady, or Lynch
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