Joe Novak (born April 19, 1945) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Northern Illinois University from 1996 to 2007, compiling a record of 63–76.[1] (wikipedia)
How exciting for our kids it will be to open the year at Ohio State and play at Iowa. Those are tremendous opportunities for our program.
Those were very good football teams. Every year, we'd go to a bowl and the people on the other side would kind of sell us short. I remember the Georgia people kind of chuckled at the farm kids from Ohio and we went out and whipped their butts (21-0) so it was fun.
What's impressive is he'll sit back in pass protection, and then we'll throw the ball down the field and he'll run down field and block a safety. I mean, get down field! You just don't see kids who can do that. He's special.
He's really important to our defense. I talked about shoring up our defense, but you are talking about taking our best player out of there.
Sure, winning is important. Recruits want to go where they know they can win. For some out-of-state recruits, it was a factor in their decision. I believe people in the Chicago area and in-state know what we've done in recent years.
Adrian Davis is a good football player. He's a doggoned good little back. There's room in this game for players like him.
They can't sign until 7, but Billy is an hour ahead of us.
We didn't think he had capped out yet. We knew he could play in the NFL, but we didn't know if he'd have that extra oomph he'd need.
We didn't get a good continuity in our passing game with our quarterbacks and receivers. That's probably the one thing this spring that we didn't come out with as good a feel as I wish we had.
He showed me something. Not too many guys can go 70 yards on Michigan.
