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End of Offseason. 2016 Season Begins!

Posted on September 14, 2015 at 09:38 PM.

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After a good but disappointing season NIU has hired a new OC and DC. NIU did not have any players selected in the NFL draft. NIU has received a transfer from Luke Elsner a DE from UTEP who will have 2 years of eligibility left after sitting out in 2016. Recruiting did not go as well as planned as NIU finished with a small 9 person class not including walk ons ranking 108th in the country.

NIU Huskies Recruiting - 2015
NAME	POS	CLASS	HOMETOWN	HT	WT	CALIBER
Mark Hurst	QB	HS	Brookfield, WI	6'2	191
John Jordan	C	HS	Lyndhurst, OH	6'4	293
Thomas Cook	FS	HS	Ashwaubenon, WI	5'11	197
Darrell Thompson	DE	HS	Allendale, MI	6'4	255
Marcus Smith	FS	HS	Noblesville, IN	6'0	197
Jon Barber	DE	HS	Garfield Heights, OH	6'4	245
Jon Moss	WR	HS	Fairfield, IA	6'0	218
Ryan Lucas	FB	HS	Glasgow, KY	5'11	237
Vincent Garner	OLB	HS	Bolingbrook, IL	6'1	206

Below are the 25 best recruiting classes.

Top Recruiting Classes - 2015
RK	TEAM	5	4	3	2	1	TOTAL
1	Oklahoma	1	11	12	0	0	24
2	Michigan	0	12	11	1	0	24
3	Alabama	3	9	6	0	0	18
4	Miami (FL)	0	10	9	3	0	22
5	Nebraska	0	9	8	3	1	21
6	Texas	1	8	8	0	1	18
7	Tennessee	2	6	9	2	0	19
8	Stanford	1	8	8	0	0	17
9	USC	0	8	11	1	0	20
10	Ohio State	0	8	10	1	0	19
11	LSU	0	7	13	0	0	20
12	Michigan State	2	4	11	4	2	23
13	Kansas State	0	8	5	6	2	21
14	Oregon	0	7	11	0	0	18
15	TCU	2	5	5	5	2	19
16	Washington	0	6	12	1	0	19
17	Ole Miss	0	6	9	5	2	22
18	Cincinnati	1	4	10	5	3	23
19	UCLA	1	4	10	4	3	22
20	Auburn	0	4	15	2	0	21
21	Iowa	0	4	14	3	1	22
22	Notre Dame	3	2	9	0	2	16
23	Missouri	0	4	14	0	1	19
24	Mississippi State	0	5	8	3	5	21
25	Virginia Tech	0	3	15	3	0	21

Conference Changes:
Purdue and Illinois relegated to the MAC
Bowling Green and Western Michigan Promoted to Big Ten
Texas Tech and Kansas relegated to C-USA
Texas State and Arkansas State promoted to Big 12
Syracuse and Virginia relegated to the American
Marshall and NC State promoted to the ACC
Missouri and Florida relegated to the Sunbelt
Memphis and FAU promoted to the SEC
Colorado and California relegated to MWC
Utah State and Fresno State promoted to the PAC-12

Schedule Notes
NIU has agreed to play FCS Western Illinois at home in 2016 -$600,000
NIU has agreed to play at Indiana in 2016 +$900,000
NIU has agreed to play a home and home with South Alabama. @NIU 2016 @USA 2017
NIU has agreed to play a home and home with FIU. @FIU 2016 @NIU 2017
Home game vs Purdue has been moved to TBA due to Purdue being relegated to the MAC

NIU has $1,600,000 to use in future out of conference scheduling

Northern Illinois Huskies 2016 Schedule
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Sep 3	at Indiana Hoosiers
Sep 10	at FIU Panthers
Sep 24	at Northwestern Wildcats
Oct 1	at Kent State Golden Flashes
Oct 8	vs Miami (OH) Redhawks
Oct 15	vs Ball State Cardinals
Oct 22	vs South Alabama Jaguars
Oct 29	at Illinois Fighting Illini
Nov 5	vs Central Michigan Chippeaus
Nov 12	vs FCS Western Illinois Leathernecks
Nov 19	vs Toledo Rockets
Nov 26	at Eastern Michigan Eagles