Korcek's Corner: Few have done it better

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series of columns on former Northern Illinois football coach Joe Novak. Mike Korcek is currently the Northern Illinois Sports Information Director Emeritus., and can be reached at mkorcek@niu.edu. In our “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately” world, often it appears that our various societal hierarchies display extremely short institutional memories. Northern Illinois University is no exception. Sometimes. If you read “Why Novak was a success, Part I” in Friday's Daily Chronicle (and thanks to the readers for their kind comments via e-mail), then you know I'm only trying to put Novak's Huskie coaching tenure into a proper context. For many years, I have stated that my Northern Illinois alma mater