NIU fans have no reason to be upset with Jerry Kill for taking the head coaching job at the University of Minnesota. Those same fans have every right to be upset with how Kill did it. Consider this: at Sunday night's annual football banquet at NIU, Kill...
DETROIT | Not once did an opposing defense hold NIU to less than 100 yards rushing during their 10-2 regular-season run.Unfortunately for the Huskies, Miami (OH) would be the first to hold its running game in check in the MAC Championship game on Friday...
DeKALB | Even without head coach Jerry Kill, the NIU football team will face off on Dec. 18 against an experienced Fresno State team in the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl. Under head coach Pat Hill, the Bulldogs (8-4, 5-3 WAC) have used a balanced scoring attack...
NIU head coach Jerry Kill doesn't believe in fate. It certainly seems like fate had a hand in things Friday night, as No. 24 NIU lost to Miami (OH) in the MAC Championship game 26-21, on a last-minute touchdown throw from freshman RedHawk Austin Boucher...
DeKALB | On Sept. 25, the NIU football program defeated the University of Minnesota, and left the field to Golden Gophers fans' chants of "fire Brewster," or Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster. Minnesota must have liked what they saw from NIU head coach...
Miami (OH) quarterback Austin Boucher said he couldn't believe NIU blitzed two players on the play that ended the Huskies' MAC Championship dreams. On second down, with no timeouts in the last minute of the game, the RedHawks lined up with three receivers...
Every man that has walked out the Yordon Center doors into Huskie Stadium over the past four years has been waiting for this. Every hand that has touched that Huskie statue, and every cleat to dig into that FieldTurf has been waiting for this. But while...
The Huskies' bowl destination has become a lot murkier with their ascension into the BCS Top 25. The national spotlight, coupled with several conferences, including the Big Ten and Pac-10, unable to fill their bowl tie-in requirements, has NIU's landing...
NIU QB Chandler Harnish Digging into a pile of stats isn't necessary to find NIU's key player for this week's game against Miami (OH). At MAC Media Day in July, NIU head coach Jerry Kill made it clear that his team needed good quarterback play if they...
Perched atop a mountain in Yosemite National Park, the 1983 NIU football team stood as one singing its school’s fight song. Prior to participating in the 1983 California Bowl, NIU head coach Bill Mallory wanted to take his team to a place they could...
Student tickets are still available for the MAC Championship football game in Detroit on Friday. The Huskies will face the Miami (OH) RedHawks at 7 p.m. According to the Convocation Center website, tickets will be available until 5 p.m. today. Buses will...
