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Penquin68:
Poor showing yesterday for sure. And with some luck we ended up tied at half. Lost our QB and number 8 was hurt at some point in the second half. And getting the kick off to start the 2nd half and getting to the 4 yard line, first and goal. We absolutely should have scored a td at that point and the game would have been different in my opinion. Running 8 at that point on 1st and 2nd down fooled no one and we ended up 3rd and goal from the 2. Now a pass was expected and Indiana State coaches who out schemed us all day, brought pressure. Cracraft is not quick enough or good enough under pressure which they found out and our play failed. If 81 caught the flip pass that would have saved the day, but he dropped it. Then the 4th down call with inches to go and we go shotgun with a 300 lb running back. Again out schemed by their coaches and we fail. Game basically over, they know our qb can't survive under pressure. When given time he makes the throws at this point of the game. With our O line we need a mobile elusive qb to survive. With Creshaw down, we are done.
For the future I still have hope for DP. He needs to rebuild and needs time and support to do it. Give him a honest chance and be supportive. In many ways it is our team and our entertainment. Without YSU what do we have? OSU, Kent State, and Akron? I think YSU adds signigicantly to the area and deserves our support. All the negatives don't really help. In many ways people in Youngstown want everything to fail and they will be happy. Almost like the old Vindicator on the area and YSU.
YSUGO:
I don’t want to see us fail. But we don’t have the money to be what we used to be. Even our student population is what like 8800 and they with fees give 70% of our athletic budget which is even less than what Akron students give. We are not understanding the economic hardship we are dealing with.
I’m sure that Phillips can recruit better but in reality now we need to play 2 money games which are losses and we all know we will lose at least 2 games minimum in our conference. So we are for the most part starting with hoping to go 8-4, or 8-3 maybe once in 15 years 9-2. We are just idiots for continuing to think we can be a big player in our conference, as for the comment that one of our teams in our conference is renting a stadium shows you how f***ed up FCS is. Dropping down to the OVC will help us not hurt us. Or whatever. No kid grows up wishing to play in the MVFC where we recruit.
Kandrase:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on October 24, 2021, 01:38:41 PM ---Do you think Crenshaw is the answer? His pa$$ing game will never be their because his height. You will be worried every single time he runs as to whether or not he is going to get up again.
The play-calling is sub-par. This is not going to change for some time to come. You do not mind a young team when you have experienced staff; but when your staff is just as inexperienced...what are you going to do?. I mean we are happy because the coaches finally see the need for some thunder in the backfield and then we put the QB in at shotgun depth? The back should have run up the middle with Craycratft pushing him from behind; or he should have been making a whole for Craycraft. In either case, THE QB SHOULD BE UP UNDER CENTER. This is HS fundamentals.
Did anyone else notice that the receivers could not catch many of Craycraft's more powerfully thrown pa$$es? Maybe this is something that will change with regular exposure, but it does make me kind of wonder if we have the improved receiving corps that we were thinking.
Line improvement is hard to call. ISU always has huge linemen and we struggle early.
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First of all Crenshaw was a Pelini recruit… but also height being a limiting factor for QBs has pretty much been debunked in modern college football. Sure it helps, but no reason a shorter QB can’t be a great pa$$er at our level, Devlin Hodges was 6-1 and set records at Samford. Not to mention Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Johnny Manzel etc
But I agree the play calling was bad
IAA Fan:
I cannot agree Kandrase. When you take away your passing game between the hatch marks you become am much more easy offense to defend against. If we decide to integrate an option component, then maybe passing could be more effective. I see no other way.
YSUGO:
We havent had a passing game to defend since Hunter Wells graduated. The offense has regressed since Montgomery left.
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