NIU Football...End of 07...Beginning of 08

The 2007 season and my first college football season is officially over. The 2008 season is just now under preparation. Our preparation for next season has already started off with a pretty big bang...Coach Joe Novak, our head coach, has officially retired from coaching and decided to move to North Carolina in July of 2008. Since our coach has retired, now we have to construct a nation-wide search for a new head coach. Once the new head coach has been signed and has arrived, he will make his decisions on new assistant coaches and if he is going to have some, if any, of our present assistant coaches continue here as a part of the NIU coaching staff. The new coach will decide to give the axe or give the helping hand. As a player of the Northern Illinois Huskies, this change is exactly what this team needs to become a big competitive school. We have a tremendous amount of talent for the 2008 season, we just need a young, innovative, and new-school football coach who is ready to do whats necessary to bring home MAC championships, National Rankings, and consecutive Bowl Game appearances. The dreams and aspirations that we have as a football team can only be met by great and young coaching who is willing to recruit from wherever need be to get top recruits to play as a Huskie. To refrain from looking to far ahead, for this next season, we have the tools and heart to go however far we want, we just need a great coaching staff to lead the way. These next few days, weeks, or months even are going to be a ride, a ride of a lifetime in search of the new Northern Illinois Huskies Head Football Coach. Once he is here, we, as in we i mean us Northern Illinois Huskie Players, are willing to get in the cart and take the roller coaster ride of the year 2008 with our new coach and along the way pick up a MAC Championship, National Ranking, and ultimately go "Bowling". We see the Boise State's and the Hawaii's of the College Football world doing it, it is our time, like how it was back in 2003, to be the next Boise State. The first step to doing so is by doing whatever it takes to prepare day-in and day-out and start the season by beating Minnesota (Big 10) and Tennessee (SEC) and making a name for ourselves in the College Football world. I am tired of getting my ass kicked and I know you are, it's payback time, it's our time to be giving the ass kickings, it's time to shine fellow Huskies, I think its time to show that we are not a bottom 10 team, but a top 25 team in the nation! PAYBACK IS COMING, 276 DAYS AND COUNTING UNTIL THE FIRST ASS KICKING AGAINST THE MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS. GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!