(01-24-2023 01:14 PM)HuskieJ Wrote:  

(01-24-2023 12:48 PM)chihuskie Wrote:  The problem with Frazier is that from day one he treated NIU like a mini Wisconsin or a mini Alabama. But that was wrong! Comparing NIU athletics to athletics at Wisconsin or Alabama is like comparing apples to elephants. Frazier limited availability of season tickets or tickets for "big games" or road game tickets and trips and parking and etc etc etc. That all should be perks for large donors, he thought.

He turned off the average fan, and showed NO INTEREST in the "casual fan." Students were also an after thought.

So yeah. It's a difficult job. But his failures made it much more so.

Excellent Summary. Add to it University Administrations that have drove
the student population and fans away with its stupidity (current Administration for its inane policies and past Administrations for graft and destroying DeKalb as a safe place to live and visit) as well and you get the sad situation NIU faces today.

This is almost statewide (all but UofI and ISU). And if I'm not mistaken, didn't all of our neighboring states do away with out of state tuition for Illinois residents? Seems like the state and our schools got caught with their pants down on that one.