(11-09-2023 11:31 PM)UnknownScout Wrote:  

(11-09-2023 06:48 PM)pvk75 Wrote:  None of all that past history (redundancy noted) about who got hired and how means a damn thing. Who cares, except for something else to read? And how does that help NIU now? I have five decades in the media and was a first-generation Huskie Clubber, and could list all kinds of people I sat in rooms with (preposition ending noted). So I know all kinds of s---, like details of who, how and why the original CUSA was formed (and why NIU wasn't in it). I know why Western Kentucky got turned down for MAC membership the first time. So what? None of that will get me even one free latte at Starbucks.

NIU in general and Huskies sports in particular (for us here) is in real trouble, with the nationally much-reported and so-called "2025 cliff" coming in college enrollment. Some kind of change is needed and needed soon, and while I support and try to live the "Golden Rule," DEI isn't it. Sure STF has gotten some things done, but he keeps tapping the old-same sources for small-project start-up cash. Remember the old Convo naming rights effort?

We're big talkers, not doers. Some of us have the excuse of getting too old for this s---. Some have said they're not buying season tickets until/unless there's a change. Whatever.

I'll try to stick to opinion, because that's all it can be, not being in charge of anything ... NIU needs a spark, a new one, from somewhere and/or somebody. I don't know where from, and it may be one of those things that just falls out of the sky. How many here would -- without reservation -- trust Freeman or STF to know what to do with it? Aha! There's the first and biggest problem. You-all add the rest.

It starts at the top with Freeman, but whatever she's doing hasn't worked, but how much attention is she actually paying to athletics with the other issues falling enrollment, budget etc. Freeman and STF need to go ASAP. I don't know if the BoD has the guts to do it and actually put someone who can turn the university around and get GOOD students who pay tuition back in the university. We have some many opportunities to build upon at the school. We used to have amazing Nursing and education departments. Along with our strong College of Business and theater (though why we never took advantage and put in a Homer J. Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) school of voice acting is beyond me. It starts at the top, the BoD needs to make the change now before it's too late.

100% AGREE, President Freeman and Sean T. Frazier are both ineffective, and damaging at this point. Board of Trustees need to honor their fiduciary duty and upgrade NIU in both poisitions.