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February 4, 2012
NIU product left Huskies after one day
Search underway to find replacement
February 3, 2012
Kaneland alum "not ready" to be new offensive coordinator
He wasn’t trying to kill the baseball. Just a steady stroke, smooth through the strike zone, solid on the way out – like he’d done thousands of times. Scott Taylor hit a home run in his previous at-bat against Kaneland in the Class 3A Rochelle Sectional semifinals. Here came another. If he could just … hit … the ball … square.
February 2, 2012
Former NIU WR returns as offensive coordinator
Dustin Adams
Position: OL
Missouri QB among 31 signees in Doeren's 2nd recruiting class
DeKALB – There wasn’t a magic number, no set goal of in-state recruits for Northern Illinois football coach Dave Doeren to hit by Wednesday’s signing day.
DeKALB – A year ago, almost all of Dave Doeren’s assistant coaches were stranded in the local IHOP while he announced his inaugural recruiting class. Buried in a blizzard, they had no choice. Recruiting coordinator Ryan Nielsen was the only one who made it to the news conference.
February 1, 2012
After individually discussing all 31 recruits in Northern Illinois 2012 football class, coach Dave Doeren said he hoped "five to seven" would play as freshmen.
If social media is a college football recruiting game-changer – as many people associated with the process say it is – the trend never caught on with Desroy Maxwell.
Chandler Harnish still remembers what conversation brought Northern Illinois’ 2007 recruiting class together in their first days on campus.
January 31, 2012
Changes in technology have caused dramatic shifts to recruiting
January 26, 2012
Northern Illinois fans are invited to hear football coach Dave Doeren discuss the Huskies’ 2012 football signing class at a pregame reception before the NIU-Western Michigan men’s basketball game at the NIU Convocation Center on Wednesday.
Relevant observations, pertinent notes, questions, minutiae and Huskie Trivial Pursuit from your local, retired sports information director:
Harnish among 5 former Huskies to play in all-star games last weekend
January 21, 2012
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish rushed for 18 yards and a touchdown and threw for 52 yards for the West squad at the East-West Shrine game Saturday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Goodbye spread offense, hello pro-style attack.
January 19, 2012
John Gordon, the director of Huskie Stadium at Northern Illinois University, said NIU is exploring the possibility of putting in a bid to host the IHSA state football finals.
Relevant observations, pertinent notes, questions, minutiae and Huskie Trivial Pursuit from your local, retired sports information director:
Northern Illinois coach Dave Doeren didn’t anticipate losing assistants from his staff after one year.
January 18, 2012
Thursday, our Northern Illinois magazine, commemorating the NIU football team's Mid-American Conference championship season, will be released. Here are details on how to get yourself a copy.
January 17, 2012
Former NFL wide receiver Frisman Jackson, a Chicago native who started his collegiate football career at Northern Illinois, has joined coach Dave Doeren’s staff as an assistant coach on the offensive side of the ball, Doeren announced Tuesday.
January 12, 2012
Four Northern Illinois players have been selected for postseason all-star games, the school announced Tuesday.
January 11, 2012
MOBILE, Ala. – In a coach’s world, next season began one second after the final tick of Northern Illinois’ win in the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Sunday.
Despite an 11-win season and a nine-game winning streak, plus a conference title and a bowl victory, the Northern Illinois football team did not finish in the Top 25 in either of the two final major polls that were released Tuesday.
January 10, 2012
No. 26 in coaches poll, No. 28 in AP poll
Harnish cements legacy at NIU
January 9, 2012
MOBILE, Ala. – In his final Northern Illinois game, Chandler Harnish didn’t run for enough yards to become the first quarterback in Football Bowl Subdivision history to pass for 3,000 and rush for 1,500.
MOBILE, Ala. – Hobbled by a bum ankle, Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish couldn't put on his usual one-man offensive show.
Huskies win GoDaddy.com Bowl
January 8, 2012
An NIU win means the MAC goes 4-1 for bowl season
January 7, 2012
The sun barely had crept over the Jonesboro, Ark., horizon Wednesday when the Arkansas State football players loaded their bags onto the red and white buses outside ASU Stadium.
When it came time for recruiting in January last year, first-year Northern Illinois football coach Dave Doeren didn’t have much experience to go on when it came to the Huskies.
Ward happy to be back in Mobile
Relevant observations, pertinent notes, questions, minutiae and Huskie Trivial Pursuit from your local, retired sports information director:
January 6, 2012
Jordan Delegal's long path to NIU
January 5, 2012
CLEVELAND – The Mid-American Conference has shifted in football.
January 4, 2012
DeKALB – Any other group, and I think Northern Illinois would be in trouble. Urgency would lack. Purpose would border nonexistent. Focus would be lost in a haze of distraction and prior fulfillment.
DeKALB – Frank Boenzi, Michael Santacaterina and Pat Schiller traversed the turf at the DeKalb Recreation Center for one final, local Northern Illinois football practice Tuesday afternoon.
December 31, 2011
Redemption, champions and inspiration across DeKalb County
December 28, 2011
Twists of fate often lead us to unexpected destinations, and it seems like it often takes multiple turns to get us where we always wanted to be.
December 24, 2011
DeKALB – Any big moment, anything requiring a camera and some posing, and DeMarcus Grady immediately seeks out the star.
December 23, 2011
NIU coach's base salary goes up
CLEVELAND – Akron has hired Terry Bowden as its new football coach Thursday to turn around a woeful program.
December 22, 2011
Northern Illinois coach Dave Doeren rendered decisions Wednesday on the availability of two players for the GoDaddy.com Bowl that were charged in separate incidents less than 48 hours after the Mid-American Conference title game.
December 21, 2011
Northern Illinois coach Dave Doeren announced in a news release this afternoon that defensive end Sean Progar and wide receiver Anthony Johnson will not play in the Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl against Arkansas State in Mobile, Ala.
DeKALB – When asked Tuesday about junior defensive end Sean Progar’s availability for the GoDaddy.com Bowl following a charge of driving under the influence on Dec. 4, Northern Illinois coach Dave Doeren said he has yet to make a decision.
On campus, a successful football team is a cause for celebration.
December 20, 2011
DeKALB – His back turned, Mathew Sims knew what was coming.
December 17, 2011
DeKALB – After Northern Illinois practice concluded Friday, coach Dave Doeren told his players how excited he was to coach them next year.
December 16, 2011
DeKALB – Jordan Lynch tried to execute his dropback. He wanted to clutch the football high, chop his feet, release with perfect technique.
December 15, 2011
Q&A with NIU's head football coach
December 13, 2011
TOLEDO, Ohio – Toledo has hired offensive coordinator Matt Campbell as its new coach.
December 11, 2011
DeKALB – Joe Novak saw the third-quarter fumble, and that was it. All she wrote. Game over. The elusive Mid-American Conference title would stay that way.
December 10, 2011
DeKALB – Jordan Delegal sat next to teammate Devon Butler in a linebackers meeting Friday before Northern Illinois football practice, and thought nothing of it.
December 7, 2011
The Daily Chronicle will be producing a commemorative magazine on the Mid-American Conference champion Northern Illinois football team, set to come out in January.
December 6, 2011
For the third year in a row, HuskieWire.com/Daily-Chronicle.com was honored as one of the top 10 sports websites in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
December 4, 2011
A person familiar with the coaching search says Arkansas State's Hugh Freeze has agreed to take the Mississippi job.
Huskies will play Arkansas State
Harnish at his best when NIU needed him most
December 3, 2011
Nothing is official yet, but Ken Hoffman, executive director of the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, told the Daily Chronicle on Saturday afternoon that he is "virtually certain" that Northern Illinois will be invited to the GoDaddy.com Bowl.
DETROIT – The game over, the Mid-American Conference championship in his team's grasp and no chance of a fluke whisking it away, Northern Illinois receiver Nathan Palmer finally felt comfortable discussing the dream.
DETROIT – At the most important moment in what has otherwise been a good season, Mathew Sims thought he had let his team down.
December 2, 2011
DETROIT – The inevitable question was asked, just like Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish expected.
DETROIT – The hallway to Ford Field’s turf still was filled with the memories. Northern Illinois players walked through it for the first time in a year Thursday, soaked in the bitterness, absorbed the disappointment all over again.
With Northern Illinois aiming for its first Mid-American Conference title since 1983 tonight against Ohio, we take a look back at the highs and lows of the season and how the Huskies arrived at this point.
The similarities are obvious.
Harnish, Schiller and Palmer represent the last tangible vestige of the Joe Novak era
DETROIT – Northern Illinois linebacker Pat Schiller broke out in a tired smile when he was asked about the #Harnishing craze, an Internet meme that mimics quarterback Chandler Harnish’s touchdown pose of pointing to the sky with one hand.
December 1, 2011
RB had long road to DeKalb
DeKALB – Already on a record-setting pace, Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish helped the program set another on Wednesday.
November 30, 2011
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – The New York Jets have released safety Emanuel Cook and will promote safety Tracy Wilson from the practice squad.
DeKALB – Sometimes, it’s all pointless. The perfect defense, double coverage, sound technique – sometimes a good receiver makes it all look silly.
