This board is truly pathetic

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.

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.

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

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!

How does that big Minnesota win look today?

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nice try, but no.

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.

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 ).