The Rockford Register Star: NIU mines Public League “pipeline”

“The Public League is like a family,” said Phil Brown, an NIU linebacker from Chicago Morgan Park. “We are underfunded. We don’t have a lot of facilities. We attend all camps together. Therefore, we form an alliance.”

It’s all-for-one and one-for-all in the Chicago Public League. That’s bad for Illinois basketball. And good for NIU football, which gets a hearty thumb’s up from Public Leaguers.