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2023 Football: Constructive Criticism and Compliments

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Dmorton:
After what I saw yesterday, you will not have to worry about it!  Really, we have one true quality win!  Southern Illinois!  That is it!   We were expected to be Ill St. and Miss St!  other than that what do we have Valpo and RMu!

Penquin68:
After yesterday's performance a few things stand out to me that the staff needs to address. And accepting the fact that we are not going to have the funding to get fully developed coaches, we need to hope that we get young assistants that can learn from past results and methods or they need to be replaced. Things that need to improve in my opinion.

1. To me our staff has not done a good job of offensive and defensive stategy to maximize the talent we have. I hope they can learn from this and improve. Can't run the ball every time number 12 comes in. Can't cover talented recievers one on one. Can run the ball most of the time on 1st down. We get no pressure with our front four and yet we seem to have only one on one coverage on wide outs. Where are the other defenders? And we seem to always have the tight end uncovered on mid range passes to the side lines. Pass defense is a definite shortcoming that needs a major overhaul.

2. Need to always bring in talent from the portal each year like most teams at our level. This past year I think we only brought in number 10.

3. Can't build a program on mostly local talent. Fans love it until we have a showing like yesterday.

4. Can't build a program on just developing walk on's to scholarship players.

Lets hope that DP has the ability to right the ship. Lets not forget that our team this year is a big improvement since the end of the Pelini era.  Need to continue the improvement and make changes to get this done.

penguinpower:
My point about needing 2 people on each side of the ball is this:
You need 2 more people to create problems on the D-Line. You need to force teams to commit to 2 double teams.  That would free up the current DL to get after the QB.  Similar concept with the OL.

Running backs aren't the problem.  I wasn't overly impressed with SDSU's, but they look outstanding because of the blocking at all levels.  That is the biggest problem. 

It's interesting that no one mentions the fact that they didn't do anything fancy (except for their failed trick play). They just liked up and ran their normal offense that took what the defense was giving them.

If the DL issues were addressed Marcus Hooker wouldn't be the leading tackler on defense in that game.

You've got a lot of youth on the lines. Believe it or not, that matters.

Dmorton:
A 36-0 whitewashing against the #1 team in the Ice Castle equals no Play-offs!  If we would have gave them a decent game maybe, but not now!  It doesn't matter if we win against Murray St. or not!

goodnews:
The sagarin rankings of YSU victories this year.
256 Valpo
241 Robert Morris
194 Indiana State
138 Illinois State
160 Missouri State
102 Southern Illinois
200 Murray State (TBD Saturday)
119 YSU (Ranking)

These rankings were prior to last weeks games.  The FCS is so weak these days that I guess it's possible that they could be considered?   

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