NIU Today

In the second of Northern Illinois’ summer-long web series chronicling new head football coach Dave Doeren’s adventures around Chicagoland, the Huskie head coach hits the track at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill.  This week, watch Doeren quench his “need for speed” by taking a couple of spins on the famous oval, which is the...

New Northern Illinois head coaches Dave Doeren (football) and Mark Montgomery (men’s basketball), along with members of their staffs, NIU women’s basketball head coach Kathi Bennett and Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher headline the 2011 Huskie Athletic Support Fund Coaches’ Caravans this May and June.  The free events, which give Huskie fans a...

The NIU Rockford Club, in partnership with NIU Huskie Coaches Caravan, will host its annual golf outing Thursday, May 19, at the Rockford Country Club. A shotgun start is scheduled for 1 p.m. Dinner begins at 6:15 p.m. Coaches from all NIU sports, along with new Huskies head football coach Dave Doeren, will address the group at 7 p.m. Golfers will...

Northern Illinois fans are invited to enjoy a day of food, fun and Huskie football Saturday, April 23, at Huskie Stadium. The action gets under way at noon on the west side of Huskie Stadium with the Fifth Annual Huskie Athletic Support Fund Tailgate Showdown, and continues inside the stadium beginning at 2 p.m. as...

New Northern Illinois head football coach Dave Doeren and his 2011 Huskie football team hit the Huskie Stadium turf for the first of 15 spring football practices Tuesday morning in DeKalb.  During a two-plus hour workout in shorts and helmets that saw the weather range from wet to cold and windy, Doeren saw the attitude...

The Northern Illinois Huskies will play seven home games for the first time since 2003, including a first-ever home game versus Wisconsin at Chicago’s Soldier Field. NIU’s football team also will be featured at least three times on ESPN national networks, highlighting the Huskies’ 2011 football schedule released Monday by NIU and the Mid-American Conference. And, for...

Former junior college All-American placekicker Josh Gallington has signed a national letter of intent to play football for the Northern Illinois Huskies, NIU head coach Dave Doeren announced Tuesday. Gallington, who has spent the last two seasons at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, Calif., becomes the 23rd member of Doeren’s first signing class at Northern Illinois. ...

Northern Illinois will play six home games at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb in 2011, and welcomes the Big Ten's Badgers to Chicago's lakefront for Soldier Field Showdown II on Saturday, Sept. 17.

All Northern Illinois fans are invited to meet new Huskie football coach Dave Doeren and his staff, get complete information on 2011 NIU football tickets, enjoy free food and drink and hear from Northern Illinois coaches and student-athletes at the annual Huskie Athletic Support Fund Kickoff from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at Victor...

"We found some guys that really fit our profile of NIU football players," Doeren said. "They are tough, hard-nosed, physical, dependable guys. We found guys from winning programs, guys who have won state championships.

Richard McNutt, who has coached defensive backs at two Mid-American Conference schools, has joined Dave Doeren’s staff at Northern Illinois and will coach the Huskie cornerbacks. McNutt fills the final assistant coaching spot on the NIU football staff for 2011. A former cornerback for Ohio State, McNutt has spent his entire career coaching defensive backs,...

All Northern Illinois fans are invited to hear new head coach Dave Doeren discuss the Huskies’ 2011 football signing class at a pregame reception Wednesday, Feb. 2, that will be held prior to the NIU-Bowling Green men’s basketball game at the Convocation Center. Feb. 2 is the first day 2011 recruits can sign National Letters...