THE RECRIMINATIONS BEGIN. Give Coach Novak credit.

We got whipped. We got whipped good," said NIU coach Joe Novak. "I thought we got out-coached. We didn't tackle well enough, we didn't cover well enough, didn't protect well enough, didn't catch well enough. They executed better and we didn't tackle worth a darn."

Straight out of the Epistle of St. Vincent to the Cheeseheads.

In other sports news, the cost overruns continue at the posh locker room.

Construction of the Academic and Athletic Performance Center recently began north of Huskie Stadium. Paid for strictly through private funding, the building was originally priced at $9.5 million, and then bumped to $12 million.

But for those of you who didn’t read media relations’ Tuesday press release for NIU’s football game against Ohio, the price of the AAPC was listed at $14.5 million. Athletics Director Jim Phillips said the price was a misprint and believes the building will end up at around $12 million. Let’s hope so. — Sean Connor, sports reporter.

(I grabbed this from a .pdf page image of the September 11 edition.)