NIU_Huskie is back!

sjboyd0137 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:05 pm

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

I love it when Tall Midget randomly jumps into a topic. :lol:

http://score670.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=295363#p295363

This one is my favorite:

lipidquadcab wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

NIU has arguably the best college baseball program in the state.

Easy to say, considering that no one in their right mind would waste time arguing about it...

spmack · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:08 pm

sjboyd0137 wrote:

RFDC wrote:

That is cute how you 2 have a back and forth conversation to make it appear as if Spanky really isn't NIU Huskie.

From my POV, I am 2 bully references and 1 starry-eyed comment from being convinced that NIU Huskie is whistler.

He does have a little whistler and CGS in him.

NIU HuSpankie...

spanky · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:11 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

So then what is your excuse to only attending HC games and none of the others? College football season is short. We only played five home games this season so its not like making a few NIU games would take a lot of time out of your schedule.

Well, let's see: job, kids, time available, other commitments, etc.
Are these good enough or should I clear it with you next time?

NIU_Huskie wrote:

You made yourself sound like you are a big Huskie fan by announcing all the games you've been to (a long time ago), so i was curious how many games you've been to in recent years.

No, I wasn't trying to "make myself sound like a big Huskie fan" - I was responding to you calling me a fair weather fan that would disappear if they go on 12-game losing streak in the future.
Pffft, I laugh at a 12 game losing streak. I apologize for being able to control the timing of their 23-game losing streak that I endured in the 90's. :roll:

I grew up a half hour away from DeKalb. I've been going to games since the days of Stacy Robinson and Adam Dach. You should google them, they'd make you proud as a Huskie fan.

edit: bad public-university spelling. :lol:

sjboyd0137 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:12 pm

spmack wrote:

sjboyd0137 wrote:

RFDC wrote:

That is cute how you 2 have a back and forth conversation to make it appear as if Spanky really isn't NIU Huskie.

From my POV, I am 2 bully references and 1 starry-eyed comment from being convinced that NIU Huskie is whistler.

He does have a little whistler and CGS in him.

NIU HuSpankie...

He also has the BRick argument quote function acumen:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

My_name_1s_MUD wrote:

You are talking about the relevance to the college sports scene. Is it a sport? Yes. Is it played in Chicago? Yes. So it qualifies. If you don't want to consider it... then move along and post in some other thread.

You said they were a dynasty, i was telling you they weren't. Winning three titles in the short history of a program is not a dynasty. Plain and simple.

My_name_1s_MUD wrote:

Did you have any idea that these girls were the first team ever to win the National Championship outside the Eastern Time Zone?

Yes, i also knew that. Think about how many Lacrosse programs there are outside of the Eastern time zone. Being the first to accomplish it doesn't seem like such a major feat then. Now, winning three in a row, that IS an accomplishment.

My_name_1s_MUD wrote:

Just because it's not baseball, baksetball, or football doesn't mean its not relevant. Go see a NU Lax game before you say the sport doesn't matter.

I didn't say it was irrelevant. But its relevance compared to those three sports isn't even comparable.

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

spanky wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

So then what is your excuse to only attending HC games and none of the others? College football season is short. We only played five home games this season so its not like making a few NIU games would take a lot of time out of your schedule.

Well, let's see: job, kids, time available, other commitments, etc.
Are these good enough or should I clear it with you next time?

You seem to have plenty of time to post on here. Almost 11k posts in less than three years.

spmack · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:39 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

spanky wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

So then what is your excuse to only attending HC games and none of the others? College football season is short. We only played five home games this season so its not like making a few NIU games would take a lot of time out of your schedule.

Well, let's see: job, kids, time available, other commitments, etc.
Are these good enough or should I clear it with you next time?

You seem to have plenty of time to post on here. Almost 11k posts in less than three years.

Touche....

Scorehead · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:10 pm

The best NCAA football team in Illinois is playing great football right now.

Hawkeye Vince · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:13 pm

This is cute. I really like the way they go back and forth in their own tribe.

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:18 pm

Scorehead wrote:

The best NCAA football team in Illinois is playing great football right now.

I agree. They're favored by 21 against Minnesota this weekend.

The second-best team are no slouches, either. Let's see if they can knock off the Hawkeyes once again.

lipidquadcab · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:24 pm

It took me ten minutes today to convince the guys at work that NIU is a Division 1 FBS team...

Hawkeye Vince · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:28 pm

Irish Boy wrote:

Scorehead wrote:

The best NCAA football team in Illinois is playing great football right now.

I agree. They're favored by 21 against Minnesota this weekend.

The second-best team are no slouches, either. Let's see if they can knock off the Hawkeyes once again.

Do you still need that hug IB?

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:29 pm

Is the offer still good big guy?

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:33 pm

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If UCF is ranked there is no reason we shouldn't be. We now have two wins better than any win they have.

East Carolina and Houston are both better than anyone NIU has defeated this year.

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

Irish Boy wrote:

Quote:

If UCF is ranked there is no reason we shouldn't be. We now have two wins better than any win they have.

East Carolina and Houston are both better than anyone NIU has defeated this year.

That's a good one, both are 5-4 compared to an 8-2 Temple (receiving top 25 votes) and 6-4 Toledo. I'm sure ECU only let Navy roll up 60+ points on them to be generous. Seriously, how do you let the Navy offense that almost exclusively runs the ball do that?

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:37 pm

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It was 18.5k, but not sure how you are going to get more than that on a weekday at 6 pm.

Iowa State got 41k for the game against NIU on a Thursday night.

Houston got 32K last Friday night.

Marshall got 23k for a Wednesday night game against UCF in a thunderstorm.

lipidquadcab · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:39 pm

Irish Boy wrote:

Quote:

It was 18.5k, but not sure how you are going to get more than that on a weekday at 6 pm.

Iowa State got 41k for the game against NIU on a Thursday night.

Odd...I was told a while back we can't get more than half the stadium filled without a big program in town...

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:41 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

That's a good one, both are 5-4 compared to an 8-2 Temple (receiving top 25 votes) and 6-4 Toledo. I'm sure ECU only let Navy roll up 60+ points on them to be generous. Seriously, how do you let the Navy offense that almost exclusively runs the ball do that?

ECU also defeated NC State, a solid ACC team. Temple's biggest pelt is UConn, probably the worst Big East team. Toledo biggest pelt is Purdue, who is awful.

Temple is 8-2 in a MAC conference that Sagarin ranks behind both the Colonial Athletic Association and the Big Sky conference.

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

Irish Boy wrote:

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It was 18.5k, but not sure how you are going to get more than that on a weekday at 6 pm.

Iowa State got 41k for the game against NIU on a Thursday night.

Houston got 32K last Friday night.

Marshall got 23k for a Wednesday night game against UCF in a thunderstorm.

Do you actually watch these games? Many schools announce tickets sold and not butts in the seats. There was not 23k at Marshall.

Plus, are we really going to compare Houston to DeKalb (with a population of 50,000)?

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

Irish Boy wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

That's a good one, both are 5-4 compared to an 8-2 Temple (receiving top 25 votes) and 6-4 Toledo. I'm sure ECU only let Navy roll up 60+ points on them to be generous. Seriously, how do you let the Navy offense that almost exclusively runs the ball do that?

ECU also defeated NC State, a solid ACC team. Temple's biggest pelt is UConn, probably the worst Big East team. Toledo biggest pelt is Purdue, who is awful.

Temple is 8-2 in a MAC conference that Sagarin ranks behind both the Colonial Athletic Association and the Big Sky conference.

Well, if you wanna use Sagarin, then here goes:

#50 Temple > #64 ECU
#70 Toledo > #72 Houston

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:49 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Do you actually watch these games? Many schools announce tickets sold and not butts in the seats. There was not 23k at Marshall.

Plus, are we really going to compare Houston to DeKalb (with a population of 50,000)?

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All the numbers used are the reported numbers. Same for NIU. It's a direct apples-to-apples comparison.

DeKalb is located remarkably close to a city larger than Houston. Also, Houston has sold out most (maybe all) of their games this year. They even sold out their game against an FBS school.

Middle Tennessee State sold 28k for their Tuesday game against Troy. That's in Murfreesboro. Keep grasping at straws though.

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:53 pm

Check again on those Sagarins. His most reliable number is his PREDICTOR number. Sagarin says so himself. Toledo is #88. Houston is #68.

Whatever number you use of his, UCF (39 regular, 38 P) is better than NIU (54 regular, 57 P)

Brick · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:53 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

It was 18.5k, but not sure how you are going to get more than that on a weekday at 6 pm.

So for some reason I decided to look it up and that 18.5k is the 2nd highest attendance of the year for NIU.

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

Irish Boy wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Do you actually watch these games? Many schools announce tickets sold and not butts in the seats. There was not 23k at Marshall.

Plus, are we really going to compare Houston to DeKalb (with a population of 50,000)?

All the numbers used are the reported numbers. Same for NIU. It's a direct apples-to-apples comparison.

DeKalb is located remarkably close to a city larger than Houston. Also, Houston has sold out most (maybe all) of their games this year. They even sold out their game against an FBS school.

Middle Tennessee State sold 28k for their Tuesday game against Troy. That's in Murfreesboro. Keep grasping at straws though.

Oh yeah, because making a drive that is already over an hour from Chicago without rush hour traffic makes it easy to go to a 6 pm game.

That's great that MTSU SOLD that many tickets but there weren't 28k in the seats.

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:56 pm

Boilermaker Rick wrote:

NIU_Huskie wrote:

It was 18.5k, but not sure how you are going to get more than that on a weekday at 6 pm.

So for some reason I decided to look it up and that 18.5k is the 2nd highest attendance of the year for NIU.

Those numbers don't reflect all the people that sneak in to watch MAC football though. You have to take that into account.

NC State got 56k for their Thursday night game against FSU.

Fresno State got 37k for their Thursday night game against Cincinnati. I'm just looking up games as I try to remember which were played on weekday nights. I haven't found one yet that was under 18k. I'm sure one is out there. But not many, apparently.

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:58 pm

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That's great that MTSU SOLD that many tickets but there weren't 28k in the seats.

NIU sold 18k. I have no idea how many were in the seats. I'm getting the numbers from the same source.

And for the record, I watched that MTSU game. They had about 28k in the seats.

Toledo got just under 26k for their Friday night game against Arizona.

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

Irish Boy wrote:

Check again on those Sagarins. His most reliable number is his PREDICTOR number. Sagarin says so himself. Toledo is #88. Houston is #68.

Whatever number you use of his, UCF (39 regular, 38 P) is better than NIU (54 regular, 57 P)

Whatever number you want to use it still disproved your argument that ECU and Houston were better wins than any of our's.

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:00 pm

Boise State got 32k for a Tuesday night game against LaTech that started at 5:00 PM PST.

JORR · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:00 pm

Are we suddenly trying to measure fans based on attendance?

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

Irish Boy wrote:

Quote:

That's great that MTSU SOLD that many tickets but there weren't 28k in the seats.

NIU sold 18k. I have no idea how many were in the seats. I'm getting the numbers from the same source.

And for the record, I watched that MTSU game. They had about 28k in the seats.

Toledo got just under 26k for their Friday night game against Arizona.

NIU does not go by tickets sold, we go by butts in the seats.

NCAA states that teams can use tickets sold or butts in seats to count attendance.

Irish Boy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:03 pm

NIU_Huskie wrote:

Irish Boy wrote:

Check again on those Sagarins. His most reliable number is his PREDICTOR number. Sagarin says so himself. Toledo is #88. Houston is #68.

Whatever number you use of his, UCF (39 regular, 38 P) is better than NIU (54 regular, 57 P)

Whatever number you want to use it still disproved your argument that ECU and Houston were better wins than any of our's.

Temple comes out better under the Sagarin PREDICTOR that I thought. Better is 49. You have a win that is better than UCF's wins. Toledo, the 88th best team in the nation, is your next best win. That is hot garbage.

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