It’s been an amazing 11 days for Northern Illinois football.

On Nov. 30, NIU won its second consecutive Mid-American Conference championship. Since then, the Huskies have earned an Orange Bowl berth and have become media darlings in the process, unless we’re talking about ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, Jesse Palmer and David Pollack.

You know it’s been a good period for the football program when news of the coach who led NIU to this point, a guy who went 23-4 in two seasons at the school and left for N.C. State less than 24 hours after winning the MAC title, has gone under the radar.