Tuesday's news felt a lot like Monday's...
Football agreed to a two-game series with Northern Illinois. BC will host next year and the return date is still to be determined, but likely in 2017. Playing a MAC school is always tricky because winning gets you nothing but the risk of losing is real. I don't mind the NIU matchup. We should beat them both years. We needed a game for next year and if we ever play the return date, the Chicagoland area is not a bad place to visit for recruiting and Alumni purposes. The reason I say "if" on the return is that future schedules mean less and less. Look at what happened with our Army games or Ohio State games. Every conference mandate has a ripple effect. I don't know if we will even need Northern Illinois in two years. All we can count on is the 2015 game.
Jim Christian added a second player to his 2015 recruiting class. North Carolina point guard Jerome Robinson committed Tuesday. Robinson is not an elite prospect, but he is a late bloomer and shows good promise. With two guys on board, there is probably room for two more true freshmen and then a few transfers.
BC will honor Welles Crowther this weekend. I don't know if it will inspire the team or overcome USC (like the writer hopes) but it is the right thing to do.
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Northern Illinois is traditionally a very tough football program. I suspect each game will be competitive.
The BC, east coast, don't know college football bias is palpable.
Northern Illinois might be favored over BC on a neutral field. They won at Northwestern by 8 pts. Year in and year out a strong program.
We had a harder than expected time with NIU back in 1971 at Alumni.
Northern Illinois is a better football team right now than BC. BC needs to get its own house in order before it starts looking down its nose at MAC schools. NI won at NW last weekend 23.15. There is a malaise surrounding the BC program right now. USC will decimate them. BC has a good coach but there is something terribly wrong. BC better figure it out sooner rather than later or they will be in deep trouble.
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