Going bowling has been a recent trend for the football team.The Huskies have gone to five consecutive postseason bowl games, posting a 2-3 record during that stretch. They were on a two-bowl winning streak before falling to the Florida State Seminoles...
The success of a team depends highly on its ability to rebuild and reload after losing players to graduation and other scenarios.NIU football has been able to do this very well, especially at the wide receiver position.The Huskies go into this season...
Now may be the most exciting time to be an NIU football fan.The Huskies are coming off their most historic season in school history (12-2), during which they earned their first-ever berth to a BCS Bowl game, repeated as MAC Champions and won the MAC West...
Sun Life Stadium is nearly 1,500 miles away from Huskie Stadium, but the NIU Orange Bowl performance is a million miles away in the minds of the football players.Trailing 17-10 heading into the fourth quarter of the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl game, the...
Football was back in the air in DeKalb on Wednesday, when the Huskies took the field in pads for the first time this summer.The Huskies are coming off an historic season in which they repeated as MAC Champions, defeating Kent State in the MAC Championship,...
The big question surrounding the football team last season was if quarterback Jordan Lynch could fill the shoes of former quarterback Chandler Harnish. Lynch answered that question quickly and in a big way by giving one of the best statistical performances...
Stepping into a championship team can be intimidating, but with players moving on, football will need to look at different personnel to step up. Last season, former wide receivers Martel Moore and Perez Ashford were big parts of the Huskies’ offense...
Football won its first MAC Championship in nearly 30 years last season. The Huskies didn’t wait nearly as long this time around as they returned to Detroit and defeated Kent State 44-37 in a double-overtime affair to repeat as MAC Champions. “That...
Going into the 2011-2012 football season, many questioned junior quarterback Jordan Lynch’s ability to fill Chandler Harnish’s shoes. Lynch quickly silenced those critics as he had one of the greatest seasons in NCAA and NIU history on his way to...
On Jan. 1 the football team engaged in possibly the single largest event in school history: the Orange Bowl. There may have been other events that put NIU in the public eye, but perhaps not in the most positive manner. As much as NIU is an institution...
After watching the Huskie Bowl, I can’t say I’m 100 percent certain as to how the football team will do this season. The biggest issue I see is that the team is very dependent on senior quarterback Jordan Lynch. Redshirt freshman Drew Hare has found...
As the inaugural Huskie Bowl was under way, the effects of drafting the teammates to play against each other was in full evidence. The Huskies were drafted into two squads--Black and Cardinal--and were led through the game by assistant coaches Joe Tripodi,...
