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Game Thread Game One: #1 Ohio State 35, Northern Illinois 12 (9/2/06)

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Saw31 said:
And as I said, you're both nuts :wink:...Soldier Field will cause the kind of excitement that you aren't getting at Huskie Stadium...Did you not see my point when I mentioned UC playing way above themselves at Paul Brown Stadium??...Obviously you two are arguing that the familiarity of Huskie Stadium is the advantage NIU will have at home, but I say again, you WILL NOT intimidate an Iowa team that plays at tOSU, scUM, PSU, and Wisky on a regular basis...It's not gonna happen. They would look at it as a high school game in comparison to what they're used to seeing. Put them in a place like Soldier Field and let them feel some intimidation and some awe...I assume that Chicago will have plenty of NIU fans and the disparity of fans will be nowhere near what has been predicted, depending on how the tickets are distributed obviously. I may be wrong here and G-F can correct me if I am wrong, but I would find it hard to believe you couldn't get a hell of a lot of asses in the seats cheering for NIU for this game. (G-F, please tell me; If Huskie Stadium were bigger, could they sell the tickets for the NIU home games??? What's the atmosphere surrounding NIU's football program??? Could NIU sell 45-50,000 tickets for a game??? If the answer is yes, than my point is 100% valid and that puts you at a 50/50 fan split and more NIU fans than has ever attended an NIU regular season game. Hell, in my quick little research, Iowa's student enrollment is around 29,000 while NIU's is around 25,000...Not that much of a difference IMO. That would indictate to me that there are plenty of people out there connected to NIU and this would be an historic game for the University and the fans)...Anyway, as I've already said, if I'm the coach of NIU, I'm licking my chops at playing Iowa at Soldier Field, because this just reads like an upset in the making...I think you're both wrong...

That's my story and I'm sticking to it...And if NIU upsets Iowa in this game, I expect greenies from both of you...:biggrin:

Oh and BTW, from what I found, DeKalb is only 65 miles away from Chicago. That's not even a "I need to stop and piss" length drive...:biggrin:
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As with G-Force, I have no problem with the game being at Soldier Field, I'm hoping to be at the game, I think it will be great. But we still play better at Huskie Stadium, the home crowd does pump up the home team even if it doesn't intimidate the opponent. And Huskie stadium is fun with a sellout, even though it's only 28,000+ people. It does get surprisingly loud. And there are no bad seats at Huskie stadium. I'm certainly not complaining. I don't know how many fans were at the game against NU, over 10,000 I think? I'm sure we'd get more than that at SF, but I don't think we would get 28,000.
 
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ntd said:
I've never been to a game at Soldier Field but I have seen it before and after its renovation, the place looks incredible. It has a rich history, is an awesome facility, and smack dab in the middle of Chicago, which is a great city...I'd love to play there
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I couldn't disagree more. Soldier Field was an awesome stadium, steeped in tradition right by the lake... in a very attractive area.

Then, for the sake of progress, they crash landed a spaceship on top. A shiny aluminum spaceship on top of classic roman architecture.

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MililaniBuckeye said:
I would bet there will be a shit-load of Iowa fans showing up.
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Yes, they would probably outnumber NIU fans. There are apparently lots of Iowa grads in the Chicago area. We don't yet have the football tradition and following to get that many people to the games. We've made progress in the last several years having a good football team but it'll never be as big as a typical Big 10/11 school. We do sell out our home games many times (of course, we have no end zone seats, that helps).
 
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As I looked at a preview of NIU, it shows 6 returning starters on O, and 7 on D. But, NIU's center and two guards are new. They will be matched up against the Bucks' two most experienced and proven defenders - Pitcock and Patterson. If the killer P's (let's throw Penton in there too) control inside, I like our chances. Of course, playing at home with a potentially explosive offense, I like that, too. :biggrin:
 
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808 Buck said:
As I looked at a preview of NIU, it shows 6 returning starters on O, and 7 on D. But, NIU's center and two guards are new. They will be matched up against the Bucks' two most experienced and proven defenders - Pitcock and Patterson. If the killer P's (let's throw Penton in there too) control inside, I like our chances. Of course, playing at home with a potentially explosive offense, I like that, too. :biggrin:
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Well actaully 1 of our guards was out last year, but started as a freshman. But we did lose our center and a guard.
 
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