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Penguin Game Day: Penguins vs. Bulldogs
IAA Fan:
I slept on it before posting, but here it is:
We struggled to figure Samford out most of the entire first half. However from the last drive in Q2, we clearly had them figured out and opened up a "can-of-whoop-***" on them. Then to let those garbage drives (for TD's) just left a HUGE bad taste in my mouth & the coaches and players need to know that is all anyone was talking about after the game. Imagine winning a play-off game (in eventually a convincing fashion) and feeling like you lost the contest? We have got to have more pride in ourselves.
Sure, we did fumble and the Samford coach should have put in some back-ups when they were down 24-points with less than 3-minutes to go; but he did not, so we needed to respond in kind. We did fumble; but folks we let them score twice in 2:49 and they went the length of the field both times. The Bulldogs have some pride and I could have lived with the one TD against back-ups, giving them 17 ...but then to let them do it again, just exposed every single weakness in our defense for JSU to watch. I am ecstatic to win a play-off game again, but I feel somewhat empty & the players/coaches should have seen this. Once again this is all anyone was talking about.
People of Youngstown ...Shame on you. Your failure to support your team disgusts me. I grew up with Thanksgiving being the start of the post-season and my favorite Holiday for just this reason. Who gives a darn about the Buckeyes? You live in the Valley & that place should have been packed. This is coming from a man who lives in Columbus, Buckeye fan and a proud father of a daughter that graduated from OSU. Yet I drive to Youngstown every weekend. If you learned anything watching the OSU game, learn this ...the scarlet & gray sold 104k tickets and there were no empty seats. I know it has been a while. but YSU football needs to once again become part of our culture and I expect coach Bo, Ron Strollo and even President Tressel to be much more vocal when this hopefully becomes a habit in the Valley once again. To the fans in attendance ...congrats on being so vocal and supportive ...it was awesome and prideful to hear and see.
good luck next week ... hope see you some of you there.
Double ET:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on November 27, 2016, 06:25:03 AM ---I slept on it before posting, but here it is:
We struggled to figure Samford out most of the entire first half. However from the last drive in Q2, we clearly had them figured out and opened up a "can-of-whoop-***" on them. Then to let those garbage drives (for TD's) just left a HUGE bad taste in my mouth & the coaches and players need to know that is all anyone was talking about after the game. Imagine winning a play-off game (in eventually a convincing fashion) and feeling like you lost the contest? We have got to have more pride in ourselves.
Sure, we did fumble and the Samford coach should have put in some back-ups when they were down 24-points with less than 3-minutes to go; but he did not, so we needed to respond in kind. We did fumble; but folks we let them score twice in 2:49 and they went the length of the field both times. The Bulldogs have some pride and I could have lived with the one TD against back-ups, giving them 17 ...but then to let them do it again, just exposed every single weakness in our defense for JSU to watch. I am ecstatic to win a play-off game again, but I feel somewhat empty & the players/coaches should have seen this. Once again this is all anyone was talking about.
People of Youngstown ...Shame on you. Your failure to support your team disgusts me. I grew up with Thanksgiving being the start of the post-season and my favorite Holiday for just this reason. Who gives a darn about the Buckeyes? You live in the Valley & that place should have been packed. This is coming from a man who lives in Columbus, Buckeye fan and a proud father of a daughter that graduated from OSU. Yet I drive to Youngstown every weekend. If you learned anything watching the OSU game, learn this ...the scarlet & gray sold 104k tickets and there were no empty seats. I know it has been a while. but YSU football needs to once again become part of our culture and I expect coach Bo, Ron Strollo and even President Tressel to be much more vocal when this hopefully becomes a habit in the Valley once again. To the fans in attendance ...congrats on being so vocal and supportive ...it was awesome and prideful to hear and see.
good luck next week ... hope see you some of you there.
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Ditto on those late tds by Samford. I know they were scored during garbage time with our backups. With that being said, we should still be playing the same defense scheme by protecting long passes and fast scores. To let that happened, twice, was totally unacceptable. I was also looking at our defense front four, they did not push hard to go after their QB. They were just going through the motion. If they were backups, they were not trying very hard to impress the coaches.
In those late drives, they did not even call the timeouts to stop the clock. They were almost saying that here we come with the long TD passes in your face, try to stop it. We were still playing one on one on the corners. Wow.
As for OSU, my son is from Columbus and we went the game after watching OSU on tv. We live 25 miles north of the campus and we made it in time for the kickoff. If you want to go the game, that really should not be a factor.
Penguin Ice:
I agree with most of your post. I flew 4 hours yesterday morning to make the game and was disappointed in the turnout of the fans. My daughter is getting married next Sunday in South Carolina about 3.5 hours from Jax State. I will drive over to the game on Saturday morning and be back in South Carolina Saturday night.
It did take the Guins about a half to figure out Samford but once they did like you said they opened up a can of whoop :::(. That was some great adjustments by both coordinators.
As for having them score and that's all everyone was talking about. That's not what I heard, I think your nit picking. You need to take into consideration the personal that was on the field. It wasn't the starting D. Rivers barely played in the 4th quarter. They got Wright some valuable playing time going into next week. I take my hat off to Samford for not quitting but I don't think it tarnished the victory in any way.
penguinpower:
--- Quote from: Penguin Ice on November 27, 2016, 07:47:42 AM ---I agree with most of your post. I flew 4 hours yesterday morning to make the game and was disappointed in the turnout of the fans. My daughter is getting married next Sunday in South Carolina about 3.5 hours from Jax State. I will drive over to the game on Saturday morning and be back in South Carolina Saturday night.
It did take the Guins about a half to figure out Samford but once they did like you said they opened up a can of whoop :::(. That was some great adjustments by both coordinators.
As for having them score and that's all everyone was talking about. That's not what I heard, I think your nit picking. You need to take into consideration the personal that was on the field. It wasn't the starting D. Rivers barely played in the 4th quarter. They got Wright some valuable playing time going into next week. I take my hat off to Samford for not quitting but I don't think it tarnished the victory in any way.
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I think you have the wrong Jax State. The one we are playing is in Alabama. I live in near Hilton Head and it is 5.5 hour for me to drive. They are located East of Birmingham near Talladega.
penguinpower:
We had the game clearly under control. We were simply better than them. The road to the championship runs through Eastern Washington. I think they can win the title this year.
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