(01-01-2019 10:51 AM)stpeterocketfan Wrote:  Is the gripe about ISU because they are FCS? Other then that doesnt ISU pretty much rival NIU in size for a university and the offerings? I hear their enrollment continues to go up!

All true. ISU has a slightly larger enrollment and a much larger endowment. It's also older than NIU and IMO the more popular university with high schoolers. NIU kind of holds that FBS/FCS thing over their head as a way to keep them "below us".

I say let a rivalry ensue!