Tag: Bob Cole
Quarterback: the most discussed battle for starting position at football camp. NIU has been stable at quarterback over the last five years with Chandler Harnish and Jordan Lynch, who combined for three Vern Smith Leadership Awards, given to the Mid-American Conference’s most valuable player. Just as Lynch was passed the torch by Harnish, Huskie fans...
The Northern Illinois University football team donned shoulder pads and helmets Monday afternoon for its third practice of the 2014 preseason at Huskie Stadium. “Overall they came out and had good energy,” said NIU head coach Rod Carey. “Then, like the first day of pads, they aren’t used to pads so it got to them...
So here we are again. For the fourth straight December, the NIU Huskies football team is headed to Detroit for the Mid-American Conference Championship in search of their third consecutive crown and a 26th notch in their MAC winning streak. Kickoff is 7 p.m. vs. the Bowling Green Falcons (9-3, 7-1). But things are different...
Admittedly, calling Saturday’s Northern Illinois football practice a “Spring Game” was a little bit of a misnomer in terms of both the “spring” and the “game”. With temperatures in the low 40s and winds measured near 20 miles per hour at times, spring has not quite arrived in Northern Illinois. And when NIU’s spring football...
For one more year, Mother Nature wins. NIU head football coach Rod Carey announced Tuesday that Northern Illinois will push the beginning of its 2013 spring football practices back one week due to unseasonably cold weather. The Huskies, whose new indoor practice facility, the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center, is currently under construction just...
Northern Illinois head coach Rod Carey continues to put the pieces of his 2013 Huskie coaching staff in place, announcing Wednesday that three returning members of the NIU staff will take on additional duties. Carey also gave two of the four new coaches hired since he took over prior to the Huskies’ appearance in the...
Dave Doeren’s second signing day as Northern Illinois University head coach went a little smoother than the first. While the 2011 Signing Day got off to a slow start due to a blizzard that hit the region, closing schools and closing roads, by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Northern Illinois had received all the necessary paperwork...
With only four days left in the Northern Illinois Huskies’ preseason football camp, NIU head coach Dave Doeren mixed fundamentals, special teams, live action and situational drills during Wednesday’s two practices. In the morning, the Huskies worked on special teams and techniques in shorts and helmets, before suiting up in full gear and picking up...
