NIU Today

Exactly three weeks away from kickoff of Northern Illinois’ 2013 season opening game at Iowa, the Huskies held their first extended scrimmage of preseason practices Saturday night at Huskie Stadium. The 80-minute scrimmage closed out the second of two practices for NIU as the Huskies went through their first two-a-day of fall camp. Northern Illinois...

The biggest lesson learned from Saturday’s inaugural Huskie Bowl, the intrasquad scrimmage that closed out Northern Illinois’ 2013 spring practices, is that the Huskies are immeasurably better as one cohesive unit working together than they are split in half. In a one-hour, 45-minute scrimmage largely dominated by the defenses, the NIU Black team coached by...

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...

The Northern Illinois football team scrimmaged for nearly 90 minutes in full pads Saturday at Huskie Stadium in the most intense day of full contact work so far this spring. The Huskie offense, especially the first team unit working behind quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS), appeared to be in mid-season form early in...

Following Saturday afternoon’s practice at Barry University, a group of approximately 15 Northern Illinois University football players, along with head coach Rod Carey, visited Baptist Children’s Hospital in Miami. Huskie players included quarterbacks Jordan Lynch, Drew Hare and Matt Williams, offensive lineman Logan Pegram, defensive lineman Nabal Jefferson and George Rainey, cornerback Rashaan Melvin and...

The Northern Illinois University football team opened its 2012 fall camp Monday afternoon with a two-hour workout under ideal conditions at Huskie Stadium. Second-year head coach Dave Doeren put the defending Mid-American Conference champions through its paces in the first of 24 practices scheduled over the next three weeks. He was pleased with the way...