A new era is about to start in NIU athletics: the Sean Frazier era.Frazier was named the new athletic director on July 16 and is starting to get settled into DeKalb and NIU athletics.Frazier takes over from Jeff Compher, who stepped down on March 6 to...
Sean Frazier is the new athletics director of NIU.Frazier has been the deputy athletics director at the University of Wisconsin since April 2011. Before being promoted to deputy athletics director, Frazier was the associate athletic director for operations...
The new NIU athletics director will be announced at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Yordon Center.After the news conference in DeKalb there will be another news conference at 3 p.m. in Chicago at The Mid-America Club in the Aon Building.NIU has been on the search...
Despite all the success NIU’s athletic program has had over the last few seasons, it is losing an important piece of the puzzle: Athletic Director Jeff Compher. Over the last five seasons under Compher, NIU has won a number of MAC championships, including...
Over the last five years, Director of Athletics Jeff Compher has tried to live up to his mantra: “We Develop Champions; In the Classroom, In Competition and In Life.” Compher accrued unmeasurable success and a number of accomplishments at NIU, not...
Christian Spears, deputy director of Athletics, has been promoted to acting director of NIU Athletics with the recent departure of Jeff Compher. Spears, who has been a part of the Athletics executive administrations team since 2009, will begin his new...
As local leaders bow out, NIU Athletics has the opportunity to make changes. Follow the Northern Star’s three-part editorial series over the next few days as the Editorial Board examines the university, city and athletics department. The Editorial Board...
NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher will leave NIU for East Carolina University. Compher, who will be leaving NIU for the same position at East Carolina, has been at NIU for five years and hired 12 of NIU’s 16 coaches, including head basketball coach...
Life at a so-called mid-major is tough. You’re often overlooked, under-appreciated, and get ditched by your head coach before a bowl game. NIU has experienced all of the above the last few years, losing two coaches in a row before its bowl game appearances,...
Dave Doeren’s salary more than quadrupled after buying out his contract, which he did only eight months after receiving an extension in April. By making the decision to leave NIU and become the head coach of North Carolina State, he leaves behind a...
NIU football was coachless for all of a day. After the announcement of former head coach Dave Doeren leaving for North Carolina State on Saturday, NIU administration named the former offensive line coach and offensive coordinator, Rod Carey, the new head...
