It seems only fitting that the NIU football team’s newfangled cornerbacks group has a lively position coach in Richard McNutt. The Ohio State alumnus inherits a renovated Huskie secondary, after the departures of starting corners Chris Smith, Kiaree...
Rallying around each other has become second nature for the NIU football team. The Huskies have had to persevere through heaps of difficulty over the past five months, from letting the MAC Championship fall through their fingers to Miami (OH), to former...
Without Devon Butler in as the starting middle linebacker, NIU head coach Dave Doeren gave two underclassmen the chance to step in. "[Mike Hellams was] a little bit ‘deer in the headlights,' but you could tell he was excited to be out there," Doeren...
Bond was set at $1 million each Thursday morning for the two NIU students charged with shooting football linebacker Devon Butler. Mark Orozco, 24, and Richard Van Arsdale III, 20, appeared in court via closed-circuit television Thursday morning and have...
An NIU student is out of surgery after being shot on the right side of his back Tuesday night. Devon Butler, a junior linebacker on the NIU football team, was visiting friends at 1009 Aspen Drive when shots were fired from a vehicle from the street. One...
Interceptions from defensive back Dominique Ware and defensive end Joe Windsor highlighted a strong early showing by the defense in Tuesday morning’s practice. Ware picked off a poorly-thrown ball from quarterback Chandler Harnish, while Windsor...
DeKALB | Hypothetical situation: It’s Sept. 3, 2011 and the NIU football team is down by one to Army. There are only three seconds left in regulation, and the ball is on the 20-yard line. One of the biggest problems facing NIU head coach Dave Doeren...
-Running back Cameron Bell missed his second consecutive practice on Thursday morning. The redshirt senior injured his hamstring in Saturday's practice. Bell was on the sideline in shoulder pads on Thursday, but the Huskies' tailback was wearing the orange...
NIU head football coach Dave Doeren has always held a liking for Kevin Kane. From recruiting him as a player at Kansas, to having him on staff at Wisconsin for the past three seasons, Doeren has always found a spot for Kane. "He's a hard-working guy,"...
With NIU football’s spring practice under way, there are many questions to be answered. One of those is who will step up for the front seven that anchored the defense last season. With three of its four defensive linemen graduating and two linebackers...
Several coaches from other schools were on hand Tuesday morning to watch the NIU football team go through its fourth practice of the spring. Coaches from Concordia and North Central College among others watched junior-college transfer Jamal Womble take...
Andrew Singer: In the span of three and a half months, NIU Athletic Director Jeff Compher has made two major hires. In the weekend before the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, Compher hired Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Doeren as the NIU football team's...
