Football just scheduled a 2:1 with Missouri.
2028 @ Missouri
2029 @ Home (or some Neutral field in Chicago)
2032 @ Missouri

This could be the biggest name to ever come to DeKalb if no shenanigans are pulled. DO NOT SELL THIS GAME.

Let's play "Guess the Venue" for the 2029 "home" game!

I will guess SeatGeek Stadium. I think this year's game against BYU will be the first of many and that NIU will be signing some sort of agreement with SeatGeek. My guess is that we will be playing at least one "home" game there per year.

(03-06-2020 11:47 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  This could be the biggest name to ever come to DeKalb if no shenanigans are pulled. DO NOT SELL THIS GAME.

I would say that Maryland trumps Mizzou.

I think 2:1 makes a lot of sense. You still can get $ for the one extra game, but also get the benefit of having a P5 school at home. I suspect we will see more of these with the P5 schools (besides just the one and dones).

I doubt I will be alive to see this series consummated.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to go with a wildcard for the Chicago "home game" against Mizzou.

Impact Field. Right near the Tollway and airport. Easily accessible to all in the Chicagoland area. Only sits 6,300 so we are guaranteed to fill the seats. Mizzou will save money on hotels, as they can fly in and out pretty quick.

Bonus. This is the home of the Chicago Dogs. So I am sure warm hotdogs will be in abundance.

The fans need to push to have this game in Dekalb. How is our campus/stadium supposed to build its history/folklore/importance if the (currently few) monumental home football match-ups are all shipped out to random Cook County venues?

If I'm a student I want to wake up, walk across campus, tailgate all day and watch my Huskies beat Mizzou right in my backyard. Thats how you build pride and local loyalty. F*ck Seat Geek stadiums 11 luxury boxes.

(03-06-2020 12:34 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  The fans need to push to have this game in Dekalb. How is our campus/stadium supposed to build its history/folklore/importance if the (currently few) monumental home football match-ups are all shipped out to random Cook County venues?

If I'm a student I want to wake up, walk across campus, tailgate all day and watch my Huskies beat Mizzou right in my backyard. Thats how you build pride and local loyalty. F*ck Seat Geek stadiums 11 luxury boxes.

The kids who will be students at this game are currently in 3rd grade. Ill see what we can do.

(03-06-2020 12:40 PM)thehappyhuskie Wrote:  

(03-06-2020 12:34 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  The fans need to push to have this game in Dekalb. How is our campus/stadium supposed to build its history/folklore/importance if the (currently few) monumental home football match-ups are all shipped out to random Cook County venues?

If I'm a student I want to wake up, walk across campus, tailgate all day and watch my Huskies beat Mizzou right in my backyard. Thats how you build pride and local loyalty. F*ck Seat Geek stadiums 11 luxury boxes.

The kids who will be students at this game are currently in 3rd grade. Ill see what we can do.

So now people are getting upset about something that not only hasn't happened, but hasn't even been suggested, and is 9 years away..............Good grief

(03-06-2020 12:07 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote:  I'm going to go with a wildcard for the Chicago "home game" against Mizzou.

Impact Field. Right near the Tollway and airport. Easily accessible to all in the Chicagoland area. Only sits 6,300 so we are guaranteed to fill the seats. Mizzou will save money on hotels, as they can fly in and out pretty quick.

Bonus. This is the home of the Chicago Dogs. So I am sure warm hotdogs will be in abundance.

pretty sure a horrid twist of irony, The home of the Dogs will run out of hot dogs if NIU played there

Love it. Great match-up and reasonable distance for travel.

Great Friday, weekend on the way, big NIU bball game tonight, nice future football schedule released with SEC opponent, and this board...is miserable.

Just the way things go around here.

Home game or not, Missouri away games seem like a very good match for NIU.

Although I think the venue will be SeatGeek Stadium, I will try to convince STF to move the game to the U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana, home of the Gary Southshore RailCats. The stadium is just off of I-90 and has plenty of parking. It will be great to have a nationally streamed game from Gary, and STF will be able to engage NIU fans in Northwest Indiana (and Chicago's South Side). Not only that, but this can only help with recruiting in Indiana. In the meantime, I will look for tailgate locations and drinking holes in the area. And, in our effort to assist with Gary's economic development, I know that the city and its residents will welcome us with open arms.

This will be billed as "the border war." Game will be played in St Louis.

17Huskie, don’t forget NIU is hosting MAC Championship wrestling. I have already see 10 buses in town. Dekalb/Sycamore hotels packed. Women’s Gymnastics tonight also. I might have trouble getting my seat at FATTYS AT 4:30.

(03-06-2020 11:59 AM)pantone1935 Wrote:  I doubt I will be alive to see this series consummated.

GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are right. A lot of us will be pushing 80 and STF will be long gone.

(03-06-2020 12:43 PM)TXHuskieJA26 Wrote:  hasn't even been suggested

Yeah, that’s worth a lot. Because BYU at SeatGeek was suggested and debated here before it was announced.

(03-06-2020 12:34 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  The fans need to push to have this game in Dekalb. How is our campus/stadium supposed to build its history/folklore/importance if the (currently few) monumental home football match-ups are all shipped out to random Cook County venues?

If I'm a student I want to wake up, walk across campus, tailgate all day and watch my Huskies beat Mizzou right in my backyard. Thats how you build pride and local loyalty. F*ck Seat Geek stadiums 11 luxury boxes.

The response is probably something like - idk, ask the pride less students from 2014-2019 why they didn’t wake up and walk across campus for almost ANY games?