NIU_Huskie is back!

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

I know you all missed me while i was gone but life kept me busy there for a while.

But how 'bout them Huskies?! Laying down the wood on national television last night 65-30 behind 400+ rushing yards.

Now 8-2 and very good chance we jump into the top 25 this Sunday. If UCF is ranked there is no reason we shouldn't be. We now have two wins better than any win they have.

Really wish we would have seen this team in the beginning of the year when we played three BCS teams on the road.

We played our, now third-string QB, in the game against Iowa State and he threw three INT's. Despite that, NIU was still only down 17-10 in the 4th qtr. Iowa State has turned into a decent team despite a brutal schedule and has a chance to go to a bowl.

Then that loss to Illinois was one we should have won. We had a brutal pass interference called on us on an uncatchable ball that kept an Illinois drive alive and ultimately led to them scoring seven more points before halftime. We also had a good drive going that looked like the makings for seven more NIU points but Chandler Harnish coughed up a fumble.

Ah well, that's the past and this team has improved each week and that's what is important as the season goes along.

I'd really like to see us play Northwestern in the LCB. That would be fun. Last time the two matched up (2005) made for a great game.

Go Huskies!

rogers park bryan · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:16 pm **Posts:** 81625

I am extremely happy youre back

NIU Huskie once wrote:

This board is truly pathetic

spmack · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:36 pm

NIU Huskie is a Fair weather fan........

RFDC · **Joined:** Sun May 11, 2008 4:11 pm **Posts:** 57909

Who knew spanky took a break from the board. Welcome back.

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:39 pm

spanky wrote:

Classic NIU_Huskie - in the 4th paragraph of his post about NIU, he makes a list of excuses as to why his team didn't beat the team that he spends the next 4 paragraphs bashing and discrediting. :lol:

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:39 pm

Again, it's not me - but I will be attending the Motor City Bowl (pizza, whateevr) to see the Huskies beat Michigan.

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:40 pm

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

spanky wrote:

Classic NIU_Huskie - in the 4th paragraph of his post about NIU, he makes a list of excuses as to why his team didn't beat the team that he spends the next 4 paragraphs bashing and discrediting. :lol:

Wow. Really bad on your part. Not only is it not accurate, it's not funny either. Even you are usually better than this...

rogers park bryan · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:16 pm **Posts:** 81625

spanky wrote:

Again, it's not me - but I will be attending the Motor City Bowl (pizza, whateevr) to see the Huskies beat Michigan.

I cant tell where you were more excited. In this NIU post or the Old 97's post you did a minute later.

rogers park bryan · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:16 pm **Posts:** 81625

Spanky is not NIU Huskie
YourMom is not Spiegel
SHARK is not ABeebe

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:41 pm

rogers park bryan wrote:

spanky wrote:

Again, it's not me - but I will be attending the Motor City Bowl (pizza, whateevr) to see the Huskies beat Michigan.

I cant tell where you were more excited. In this NIU post or the Old 97's post you did a minute later.

Old 97' was first. You gonna watch? The song they sing compares Champaign to purgatory.

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

See, look at all the posts already...you all really did miss me!

rogers park bryan · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:16 pm **Posts:** 81625

spanky wrote:

rogers park bryan wrote:

spanky wrote:

Again, it's not me - but I will be attending the Motor City Bowl (pizza, whateevr) to see the Huskies beat Michigan.

I cant tell where you were more excited. In this NIU post or the Old 97's post you did a minute later.

Old 97' was first. You gonna watch? The song they sing compares Champaign to purgatory.

Thats a bit late for me. The music act goes at like 1127 right?

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:43 pm

spanky wrote:

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

spanky wrote:

Classic NIU_Huskie - in the 4th paragraph of his post about NIU, he makes a list of excuses as to why his team didn't beat the team that he spends the next 4 paragraphs bashing and discrediting. :lol:

Wow. Really bad on your part. Not only is it not accurate, it's not funny either. Even you are usually better than this...

I'm sure you know, but others may not so here is the "inspiration" for that. http://score670.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=893882#p893882

You'd be all over me if I made a similar post about Purdue and how injuries, penalties and turnovers are the reasons we lost a game we "should have won". In fact, you were. :lol:

How does that big Minnesota win look today? :lol:

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

spanky wrote:

Classic NIU_Huskie - in the 4th paragraph of his post about NIU, he makes a list of excuses as to why his team didn't beat the team that he spends the next 4 paragraphs bashing and discrediting. :lol:

Boiler, don't be mad that the Toledo team we just took to the woodshed beat your team. Come, join us in the LCB for a butt-kicking!

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:52 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Boiler, don't be made that the Toledo team we just took to the woodshed beat your team. Come, join us in the LCB for a butt-kicking!

I'm not mad about it. It could have been a blessing in disguise. We'll see what happens at the end of the season.

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:58 pm

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

How does that big Minnesota win look today? :lol:

I would say it looks approximately the same as it did before.

NIU has beaten a Big Ten team, on the road, two years in a row. They are 2-1 (actually maybe 3-1, not sure. I'll bet NIU_Huskie knows) against bowl teams from last year.

Again, try to "engineer" your mind around this: all this does is reinforce my belief that NIU could easily survive being "mediocre" in the Big Ten, as half that conference's teams currently do. That's all I've ever really said. There are enough bad/mediocre teams in that conference every year, many never ever really improving outside of a "miracle" year every 12-15 years, which NIU has also shown itself to be very capable of.

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Boiler, don't be made that the Toledo team we just took to the woodshed beat your team. Come, join us in the LCB for a butt-kicking!

I'm not mad about it. It could have been a blessing in disguise. We'll see what happens at the end of the season.

Or in the words of Cubs fans every season, "there's always next year".

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

spanky wrote:

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

How does that big Minnesota win look today? :lol:

I would say it looks approximately the same as it did before.

NIU has beaten a Big Ten team, on the road, two years in a row. They are 2-1 (actually maybe 3-1, not sure. I'll bet NIU_Huskie knows) against bowl teams from last year.

Again, try to "engineer" your mind around this: all this does is reinforce my belief that NIU could easily survive being "mediocre" in the Big Ten, as half that conference's teams currently do. That's all I've ever really said. There are enough bad/mediocre teams in that conference every year, many never ever really improving outside of a "miracle" year every 12-15 years, which NIU has also shown itself to be very capable of.

Don't mention to him that Illinois team we played competitively with and is in the middle of the Big Ten standings crushed his team 44-10.

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:16 pm

spanky wrote:

That's all I've ever really said. There are enough bad/mediocre teams in that conference every year, many never ever really improving outside of a "miracle" year every 12-15 years, which NIU has also shown itself to be very capable of.

If anything, it's a "miracle" when NIU actually beats a Big Ten team considering it's happened twice in the past 20 years, and one of those teams is one of the worst teams of the past decade in the Big Ten. The other team is Purdue, who both you and NIU_Huskie seem to scoff at as not good at all when not convenient.

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Or in the words of Cubs fans every season, "there's always next year".

Our coach may be fired at the end of the season, and one of the major reasons why is that he lost to a MAC team two years in a row. I think that puts things into perspective.

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Don't mention to him that Illinois team we played competitively with and is in the middle of the Big Ten standings crushed his team 44-10.

The transitive property in football doesn't work. But hey, if it's your point that Purdue sucks I won't argue. Just remember that a team that has a lot of the same players and is similarly bad is your teams biggest win in the past decade or more.

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:22 pm

The way that you can tell I'm not NIU_Huskie: I could care less about "playing ompetetively". I want wins, not losses.

The CFB landscape has changed in the last 8-10 years. The "smaller schools" had no shot 20 years ago - they do now. Probably thanks (in most part) to ESPN and other TV money.

My_name_1s_MUD · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:31 pm

I missed you.

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:38 pm

spanky wrote:

The way that you can tell I'm not NIU_Huskie: I could care less about "playing ompetetively". I want wins, not losses.

The CFB landscape has changed in the last 8-10 years. The "smaller schools" had no shot 20 years ago - they do now. Probably thanks (in most part) to ESPN and other TV money.

I think you underestimate what NIU actually did. They've improved things and made a stronger commitment to football. The money has helped but realistically they are still very much outpaced by any of the big schools. They, just like many historically average or bad BCS schools, have also benefited from lower team sizes and more depth in terms of high school recruits.

It will be interesting to see if they can sustain it.

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

Our coach may be fired at the end of the season, and one of the major reasons why is that he lost to a MAC team two years in a row. I think that puts things into perspective.

Well, Purdue fans need to bring their expectations way down because they are not a program that should demand much.

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

Just remember that a team that has a lot of the same players and is similarly bad is your teams biggest win in the past decade or more.

Nice try, but no.

NIU_Huskie · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:20 pm **Posts:** 215

spanky wrote:

The way that you can tell I'm not NIU_Huskie: I could care less about "playing ompetetively". I want wins, not losses.

The CFB landscape has changed in the last 8-10 years. The "smaller schools" had no shot 20 years ago - they do now. Probably thanks (in most part) to ESPN and other TV money.

I think everyone on here already knows if NIU went 0-12 next year you would trade in your fair-weather NIU pride in a heartbeat.

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:06 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Well, Purdue fans need to bring their expectations way down because they are not a program that should demand much.

Given your screenname this has to be one of best quotes I've ever read on here. :lol:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Nice try, but no.

I take it back. I just found 2 games that were probably bigger wins.

Hawkeye Vince · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:09 pm

Can you stick around for basketball season? I need a punching bag during the winter.

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:12 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

spanky wrote:

The way that you can tell I'm not NIU_Huskie: I could care less about "playing ompetetively". I want wins, not losses.

The CFB landscape has changed in the last 8-10 years. The "smaller schools" had no shot 20 years ago - they do now. Probably thanks (in most part) to ESPN and other TV money.

I think everyone on here already knows if NIU went 0-12 next year you would trade in your fair-weather NIU pride in a heartbeat.

Ok.

NIU lost 23 in a row while I went there. I followed the damn team to Iowa City, Madison, Champaign (purgatory), and many other places. I followed the OG dog-killer LeShon Johnson obsessively. Saw his first college game, his last college game, saw him run all over the Hawkeyes one year (in a loss

). Saw his first professional game as a member of the Packers at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee.
I tried to latch on to the career of the great Thomas Hammock after LeShon left, it just wasn't the same. :lol:

I was at the game when they broke "the streak".
I'm also around here supporting them a hell of a lot more often than you are.

Please. Think before you speak.

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:15 pm

I just realized that I got baited by a mult. :lol:

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:16 pm

So are we all now convinced they aren't the same person? :lol:

Irony: NIU_Huskie "returning" after NIU finally looks like they will win the MAC and talking about being a "fair weather fan".

Hawkeye Vince · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:20 pm

spanky wrote:

NIU lost 23 in a row while I went there. I followed the damn team to Iowa City, Madison, Champaign (purgatory), and many other places. I followed the OG dog-killer LeShon Johnson obsessively. Saw his first college game, his last college game, saw him run all over the Hawkeyes one year (in a loss

).

I was at that game (1993?). LeShon was crazy that day. God that was a bad bad bad Iowa team. Iowa really sucked when i was there 92-95.

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