I was also at the Two Brothers event. Small crowd (it was never that big, but a little smaller than usual, maybe 20 people that weren't NIU coaches or staff). I seem to recall they had name tags last year unless I'm misremembering, but not this year. The silent auction items were basically tickets to games except for a wine and 2 glasses kit and one other set of tickets, scarf, hat, etc. Oh, and a jersey. Kind of limited (although I don't need any more signed footballs anyway). And it said cash or check only, which I didn't have a checkbook with me so didn't bid on them. One person bought most of the items I think. I believe last year they sold raffle tickets and you put them in containers next to the items you wanted.

Neither football nor basketball did good last year and those would be the teams that would prompt interest in an event like this. Or, the event has simply gotten to the "been there, done that" phase.

Food was ok, they had burger sliders, BBQ pork sliders, some little taco-like contraptions, and a few other things I didn't eat. Not bad if you only paid $5 to get in, and not a terrible deal for $10 either. No complaints there (better than cold hot dogs and chips)