Head Coach Jordan Lynch....lol

(09-04-2017 12:11 AM)7 Wrote:  

(09-03-2017 09:38 PM)prairiedawg Wrote:  Rod has lost 8 straight out of conference games.... that is called the HOT SEAT!!!!!!

is anybody arguing he's not on the heat seat lol

Can't imagine this happening, but if we win the division and the MAC Championship, and then either win a bowl game or play respectively, Carey is not on the hot seat.
Let's say we start 1-3, finish second in the West with one MAC loss to finish 8-4 , go to a bowl and lose ...... it still doesn't matter what we think. Where does STF find the money for a buy-out?
My biggest hope is that regardless of what happens, he doesn't get any type of extension again.

Carey's teams could go 6-6 this year and the 2 future years, and his contract would then end, and then we'd look for another coach.

Mediocre will let Carey keep his job, as Frazier extended him and this is not a hot issue given general NIU budget woes and no leader at the top of the school to drive a change. NIU's senior management focus is on other issues like staying relevant amid declining funding and enrollment.

I know us posters on this board care, but, there's no noise about a change any where else.

Side note - my daughter is 18 and chose a college in Chicago (close to home), her and her friends just don't care about football much, even the high school friends who played on their school teams. Me and other Dads at her college are much more interested in football than the kids. MY pocket of the world doesn't show how game attendance could go up, what do others see?

(09-04-2017 06:02 PM)NIU84 Wrote:  Carey's teams could go 6-6 this year and the 2 future years, and his contract would then end, and then we'd look for another coach.

Mediocre will let Carey keep his job, as Frazier extended him and this is not a hot issue given general NIU budget woes and no leader at the top of the school to drive a change. NIU's senior management focus is on other issues like staying relevant amid declining funding and enrollment.

I know us posters on this board care, but, there's no noise about a change any where else.

Side note - my daughter is 18 and chose a college in Chicago (close to home), her and her friends just don't care about football much, even the high school friends who played on their school teams. Me and other Dads at her college are much more interested in football than the kids. MY pocket of the world doesn't show how game attendance could go up, what do others see?

That's my fear. People have come to accept this lower standard. If fans don't demand more who will

(09-04-2017 12:38 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 12:35 AM)dekalb222 Wrote:  This isn't the NFL! You do not say we're playing a young guy because we're looking to the future. Carey is starting Graham because he feels he gives the team the best chance of winning. I don't think that's going to happen often this year but that's why Carey is playing him.

We need to see Childers out there, maybe Santa, but Childers really needs a look.

The problem is that Santa looked awful throwing the ball in some practices. Not sure what happened with Childers because lots of people thought he was going to win the job at the beginning of fall camp.

They should have got Fleck when Doren left. Carey is a POS. No one has decimated the fan base more than Carey since Charlie Stadler.

Matt Simon

(09-03-2017 09:32 PM)142niu Wrote:  Sam Hurd

Federal indictments do build character.

Could open up a whole new recruiting base.

Sabock is special teams coach and in response to 84 my daughters are mid 20's and are football (NIU and others) fans.

(09-05-2017 07:19 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Sabock is special teams coach and in response to 84 my daughters are mid 20's and are football (NIU and others) fans.

oh thank God...maybe it's just me:)

(09-04-2017 07:40 PM)Dtownboys Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 12:38 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 12:35 AM)dekalb222 Wrote:  This isn't the NFL! You do not say we're playing a young guy because we're looking to the future. Carey is starting Graham because he feels he gives the team the best chance of winning. I don't think that's going to happen often this year but that's why Carey is playing him.

We need to see Childers out there, maybe Santa, but Childers really needs a look.

The problem is that Santa looked awful throwing the ball in some practices. Not sure what happened with Childers because lots of people thought he was going to win the job at the beginning of fall camp.

Rod happened.

(09-04-2017 12:19 PM)HappyHuskie Wrote:  Does Carey's contract stipulate that he remain as HEAD coach? Could he be "reassigned" to special teams coach (hopefully he will walk), then promote Lynch to head coach.

It is difficult to succeed as a HC without adequate seasoning as an assistant and then as an offensive or defensive coordinator.

I will always remember Bart Starr commenting that looking back on things he wished he had spent time as an assistant coach before attempting to be a head coach.

(09-05-2017 08:16 PM)randyfensfanclub1 Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 07:40 PM)Dtownboys Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 12:38 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-04-2017 12:35 AM)dekalb222 Wrote:  This isn't the NFL! You do not say we're playing a young guy because we're looking to the future. Carey is starting Graham because he feels he gives the team the best chance of winning. I don't think that's going to happen often this year but that's why Carey is playing him.

We need to see Childers out there, maybe Santa, but Childers really needs a look.

The problem is that Santa looked awful throwing the ball in some practices. Not sure what happened with Childers because lots of people thought he was going to win the job at the beginning of fall camp.

Rod happened.

Yep. I am 100 percent convinced of that