This was happening regardless of the coach. The question is whether Hammock can turn it around.

This was supposed to happen in year 2?

This was happening regardless of the coach. The question is whether Hammock can turn it around.

I guess, but he has 2 years max. Rod Carey sucked too, so maybe this should be a fire Sean Frazier thread.

Maybe they can pull Jordan Lynch away from Mt.Carmel next?

UMN said they need to go pluck Don Beebe away from the D3 school he is currently coaching.

I’m down with that.

Calm down. Something like 90% of the roster is sophomore or younger. It's a crazy team makeup.

As others have said, those guys are seniors in two years and then you judge him

Carey is the guy who screwed up the place. This is how you know NIU is not a major football concern in this town...nobody cared. And nobody cares now*
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Frazier is terrible. Only takes a few minutes of listening to that guy to understand that. Look how bad the basketball team has been.

Yeah, I know. Some of that though is players leaving the program. Maybe that's not on the HC, but you have to wonder. I understand that Orange Bowl year was an anomaly, but they should be able to compete for MAC championships every few years. Same goes for basketball.

Do they have a decent team in any sport now?

Carey is the guy who screwed up the place. This is how you know NIU is not a major football concern in this town...nobody cared. And nobody cares now*

*there are a fair amount of racists in the this town so there may be SOME people who care, if you catch my drift.

Frazier is terrible. Only takes a few minutes of listening to that guy to understand that. Look how bad the basketball team has been.

You're in the Dirty D? I'm quarantining in Sycamore (Hickabore/snore) with my girlfriend. Yes, there are tons of racists in both towns. You see more U of Iowa stuff than NIU. Which is funny to me, because growing up in Naperville, U of Iowa was considered the last resort school to go to if mommy and daddy had money but you were too dumb to get into the U of I, Wisc, Indiana, etc.

NIU was always pretty popular in the sugar grove, elburn, and maple park area where im from mostly due to PJ playing there, the hs coaches son plaing there and chad beebe playing there. Geneva started to send some stars there helping to spread their local popularity. It took a while to build that program and its going to take a while to build it again. I don't think it would be that far off to have Don hop on 88 and drive over to the facility every day. He is a master motivator, has alot of friends to use as coaches and is 2nd to none in talking about JC. He is essentially a humble Dabo. When he realizes that the virus has destroyed d3 sports he will start thinking about NIU.

I went to Syco High 20 years ago. There was a group of students who wore a tshirt to school one day with a noose on the front and "Go Back to Africa" on the back. The principal asked them to leave school during 7th period. LOL!

I went to Syco High 20 years ago. There was a group of students who wore a tshirt to school one day with a noose on the front and "Go Back to Africa" on the back. The principal asked them to leave school during 7th period. LOL!

I heard the n-word quite a bit. Went to Ski's "Pub" once with my friend. We didn't get served while sitting at the bar for close to ten minutes, and the clientele stared at my friend quite a bit. He's black but it couldn't have been that.

We were probably there together and I very much remember the "Hicks Vs Blacks" thing that escalated into a forced message from the principal after weapons were either brought to school or there was a threat of such things.

Dude, Ski's is a pure trash bar. Always has been. Hinks too although I guess they cleaned up some of the motorcycle gangs.

Sycamore is no different than Naperville, lily white for the most part. The section 8 housing is on the north end of town, right by the sewage treatment plant. No surprise how that got placed there. Section 8 housing didn't change anything. NIU has quite a few students that seem to bring their problem friends with them, I'd say that's more where the crime is coming from.

I don't know the last time you were over by Greek row where most of the crime is happening, but I can assure those aren't college kids living over there.