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Location behind the inspirations for NIU football move to the Mountain West

January 7, 2025

By Chris Kwiecinski, FOX32 Chicago: Back in the summer of 2022, NIU Director of Athletics Sean Frazier was in his car when the news struck.

USC and UCLA were going to spurn the Pac-12 and join the Big Ten. Frazier called a friend of his who works in the Big Ten about the bombshell report.

Frazier had to ask: What’s going on here?

“We’re not done,” Frazier recalled his friend saying.

The Big Ten was not. The conference added Oregon and Washington to form a super conference that rivaled the SEC, which armed itself with Oklahoma and Texas. That idea spurned an idea in Frazier’s head.

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