DEKALB, Ill. — To hear those around Northern Illinois’s football program tell it, the clock striking midnight on July 1 and formally heralding the Huskies’ entry into the Mountain West was a bit of an anticlimax.
“We’re grateful to be in the Mountain West,” wide receiver DeAree Rogers said, donning a Mountain West logo sweatshirt and matching purple durag during this interview. “Bigger conference, better opponents. But July 1 rolled around, and we all went to sleep the same way. We all came to work the same way.”
