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Roy Manning
Roy Manning, a former University of Michigan linebacker who spent three seasons in the National Football League and has coached at both Michigan and the University of Cincinnati, has joined the Northern Illinois football staff as running backs coach, NIU head coach Rod Carey announced Wednesday. “We’re really happy to have Roy Manning come in...
Coach Rod Carey leads the NIU Huskies onto the field at the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl.
After a 2012 season that included a 12-game winning streak, a second consecutive Mid-American Conference Championship and a trip to the Discover Orange Bowl in the first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) appearance in MAC history, Northern Illinois announced its 2013 non-conference schedule and its line-up of MAC opponents for next season Wednesday. After playing seven...
Jordan Lynch
Northern Illinois’ 2012 football team made a little more history Tuesday when the Huskies were ranked in the final Associated Press and USA Today Top 25 polls for the first time. The Huskies finished the season ranked 22nd by the writers who vote in the AP poll, and came in at No. 24 in the...
Brett Diersen
Brett Diersen, a defensive line coach with extensive Midwest ties who is well-known to Northern Illinois head football coach Rod Carey, has joined the Huskie coaching staff as defensive line coach. Diersen spent the 2012 season at Florida Atlantic University where he coached the Owls’ defensive line and served as special teams coordinator under head...
Suzy and David Changnon
As the tops of the four coach buses appeared on the western edge of the NIU Convocation Center about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, the joyous clanging of the victory bell grew louder. Many in the crowd of well-wishers who came with flags, banners and handmade signs began to wave, most of their hands tucked inside red...
Coach Rod Carey leads the NIU Huskies onto the field at the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl.
So who’s ready to cheer? All Huskie football fans are encouraged to welcome the team back home from Miami this afternoon – Wednesday, Jan. 2 – at the NIU Convocation Center. The team is anticipated to return to campus around 2:30 p.m. today, at which time fans will line the entrance of the Convo. Bring thunderstix,...
Jordan Lynch
Florida State running back Lonnie Pryor ran for 134 yards and two touchdowns as Northern Illinois saw its 12-game winning streak snapped, 31-10, by the Seminoles on Tuesday night in the Discover Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium. Florida State quarterback E.J. Manuel was 26-of-38 for 291 yards and a touchdown, NIU redshirt junior quarterback...
Larry Morrissey
Rockford Mayor Larry Morrissey declared January as “NIU Huskie Month” in the state’s third-largest city, which is located about 38 miles northwest of DeKalb and serves as home to one of the university’s three outreach centers. The announcement came during a Monday, Dec. 31, meeting of the city council. NIU’s Rena Cotsones was on hand...
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...
Thad Ward
Thad Ward, who has coached at the high school and collegiate level in Florida, spent six years coaching in Illinois and became familiar with the Mid-American Conference at Western Michigan in 2012, will join the Northern Illinois coaching staff after the Discover Orange Bowl. Ward, who played wide receiver at the University of Central Florida...
Coach Rod Carey allowed his mind to wander as he flew Wednesday with the NIU Huskies football team to Miami. “I started flipping through on my phone all the old Orange Bowl scores. I found that Notre Dame-Colorado one from way back, when I was a kid all those years ago. I thought to myself,...
Alan Baxter
A season of “firsts” for the Northern Illinois football program continued Thursday as for the first time in NIU history, three Huskie football players were named to the Capital One Academic All-America© Division I Football Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The selection of defensive end Alan Baxter to the...
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