(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).