From the Jan. 8, 2013 Bleacher Report.
Louisville and Rutgers are leaving the Big East. Boise State is not joining. Many possible new teams for the Big East Conference have been mentioned, but not Northern Illinois. OK, so this is one really troubled conference which is sort of breaking up and sort of not.
Hey, NIU was in the BCS Orange Bowl and finished in the Top 25 this year (last year #26) Northern has been a Mid-Major power the last decade. All credit goes to Joe Novak, the coach who stayed. You have to wonder where the program would be today if the last two had showed that sort of commitment?
In addition, NIU has had multiple bowl berths over the last five years and is in the third largest TV market.
Drawbacks is that Huskie Stadium is subpar for the Big Time, and there is that pesky attendance problem. As well as keeping coaches when they have success.
I'm for staying in the Mid-American Conference as it is a good fit, and, of course, we still have big problems beating Toledo. But one good thing would be in the Big East, we would get to play East Carolina which just joined it. Had I remained in North Carolina, where I was born, I most likely would have gone there. I am a big ECU fan, that is, unless they play NIU.
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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