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I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here is what we do know. Your style of play has won you nothing and will win you nothing. All you have to do with NIU is stop the run and force an average QB to beat you....they never do. I hope you're not representative of Akron fans. No class at all. If you can't take some facts, don't come around. Maybe it is the thin skin that keeps you guys from winning anything. What facts can you offer? We didn't lose to Akron because we couldn't throw the ball - the exact opposite. We got into a passing shootout. We lost because we couldn't play defense. And like I said, your fact about Harnish playing poorly against Iowa State wasn't a fact either. Actually, you guys couldn't run late after running the ball all evening and lost because you couldn't run out the clock against a poor defense with an NFL RB and a huge offensive line. Fine, throw out the ISU game. His numbers are still not impressive. You're missing the point. NIU is a good team, but not great. They are just another mac school. The difference between winning and losing in the mac is players executing in a league where the talent level is lacking compared to bcs schools. Most MAC schools don't win games, games are handed to them by the other team. Believe me, UofA has handed away more than our fair share of them over the past 20 years. If Akron makes plays Saturday, we win. If not, we lose. If we drop passes, we lose...If we catch passes, we win. If we tackle, we win....If we don't tackle, we lose. Etc..... A play here or there and you guys may be 1-3. Sorry if I'm not impressed. Would you like me to pretend as if I am impressed?.....I'm a pretty good writer and could probably drum something up real quick. Just say the word and I can make it happen. I won't argue about most of that. Minnesota was a pretty good win, it's not like we were playing Indiana State. Minnesota isn't that good this year, certainly, and they might have had a letdown after the USC game. And I'm still concerned about the running game since we couldn't block for Spann in the Illinois game (and overall didn't do well against North Dakota). And of course, it remains to be seen whether our QB can make the MAC defenses pay for stacking the LOS against the run. I'm optimistic, but I've watched too many of our games to get my hopes up too much. Most games are handed away by one team, it's just a question of how egregious the errors are. There's no definite difference there between the MAC schools and Big10 schools. And the bottom 5 Big10 teams are not much different than the best MAC schools. Actually, in that Akron game, it was really just the one drive at the end where we failed, and of course, Akron knew we were going to run the ball in order to run out the clock. That's a lot harder. The real difference was our defense. We've never had a good pass defense in all the years I've been watching them (going back into the 80s), with the exception of 2003 and to some extent 2004. So our epic fail at the end of the championship game was something that Toledo in particular is pretty familiar with as well.

I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here is what we do know. Your style of play has won you nothing and will win you nothing. All you have to do with NIU is stop the run and force an average QB to beat you....they never do. I hope you're not representative of Akron fans. No class at all. If you can't take some facts, don't come around. Maybe it is the thin skin that keeps you guys from winning anything. What facts can you offer? We didn't lose to Akron because we couldn't throw the ball - the exact opposite. We got into a passing shootout. We lost because we couldn't play defense. And like I said, your fact about Harnish playing poorly against Iowa State wasn't a fact either.

I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough. Here is what we do know. Your style of play has won you nothing and will win you nothing. All you have to do with NIU is stop the run and force an average QB to beat you....they never do. I hope you're not representative of Akron fans. No class at all.

I was waiting to see if someone would point out that Harnish didn't play against Iowa State - guess not. I'm not sure why actually - but Demarcus Grady was the QB in that game. After watching the North Dakota game, probably a lot of NIU fans would have echoed some of the sentiments expressed here. Harnish missed open receivers, and we had no kicker. In retrospect, I think Harnish was rusty, as he's played better the last couple games. He was injured this offseason. I'm sure we're somewhere between the weak RB running attack of North Dakota and Illinois games, and the 10+ ypc running attack against Minnesota. Harnish has improved and it may not be possible to stack the run as much as in previous years. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

The "old Akron"...the one everyone lumped in with Can't...is dead. Deal with it. Fear the Roo. We hear this kind of stuff from Toledo fans on our board all the time. We're nowhere close to what high and mighty Toledo has done.

Pretty sure he's not an NIU fan. Most of us were complaining we couldn't get to the game because of the day and the distance to travel. NIU led the MAC in attendance, but the MACC situation was a lot to expect from either team. Not surprised at the attendance at all.

Can't speak for your other games, but it does look like NIU definitely got out-coached in the MACC. I think NIU wins without that, although the complete lack of a pass rush by was critical too, and that was simply good blocking. I think you guys do have more talent on defense than NIU currently does. Anyway, you guys will be tough to beat in the future too.

Congrats to you guys on winning the East division. I'm glad we get to play you again, I didn't see the first game, had to listen to it on the radio. NIU's playing better right now, so if you beat us again, you deserve a lot of respect that you're not getting now. The Akron players are probably so pissed from the lack of respect, it worries me. But our team will be ready to play too, that's for sure. Should be interesting. May the best team win, but....... Go Huskies!