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Penguins Announce December Signees
Double ET:
--- Quote from: Wick250 on December 23, 2023, 11:23:57 AM ---Immediate help will come from the transfers, not these young kids. If internet postings are accurate, we have several new faces for the secondary within the transfer group. Here is the big question: Does it really matter who we recruit on defense if we are stuck with the same defensive coaching staff?
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Good point Wick. If we don’t improve on the defensive scheme next year, I don’t think any recruits will make any difference.
I don’t think our secondary talents were as bad as the statistics had shown. IMO, instead, they were actually the victims of a poor defensive scheme. In my past posting, I kept going back to the game that we tried to cover the best receiver in the MVFC with single coverage the entice game. Our poor cornerback kept getting burned over and over and the receiver had a career day. The secondary was made even more vulnerable by our inability to put pressure on the opposing QB.
I don’t think Brungard will be our future QB. This has nothing to do with his talent, I am just trouble believing that if he is, why would us not let him try to throw the ball? Oh, worse than that, we were having him return punts while he was the backup QB in the game.
On another hand, we are supposed to be a football college and yet, currently, our MBB is almost ranked in the top 100 in D1. I don’t think our football team is anywhere closed to be ranked in the top 100 nationwide.
Go penguins.
Wick250:
--- Quote from: Double ET on December 23, 2023, 01:04:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: Wick250 on December 23, 2023, 11:23:57 AM ---Immediate help will come from the transfers, not these young kids. If internet postings are accurate, we have several new faces for the secondary within the transfer group. Here is the big question: Does it really matter who we recruit on defense if we are stuck with the same defensive coaching staff?
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Good point Wick. If we don’t improve on the defensive scheme next year, I don’t think any recruits will make any difference.
I don’t think our secondary talents were as bad as the statistics had shown. IMO, instead, they were actually the victims of a poor defensive scheme. In my past posting, I kept going back to the game that we tried to cover the best receiver in the MVFC with single coverage the entice game. Our poor cornerback kept getting burned over and over and the receiver had a career day. The secondary was made even more vulnerable by our inability to put pressure on the opposing QB.
I don’t think Brungard will be our future QB. This has nothing to do with his talent, I am just trouble believing that if he is, why would us not let him try to throw the ball? Oh, worse than that, we were having him return punts while he was the backup QB in the game.
On another hand, we are supposed to be a football college and yet, currently, our MBB is almost ranked in the top 100 in D1. I don’t think our football team is anywhere closed to be ranked in the top 100 nationwide.
Go penguins.
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For the record, as of December 9 in the Sagarin Ratings, YSU is #123. We are #10 in FCS. We are rated higher than six MAC schools. Kent State is rated the worst FBS team in the country; Akron fifth from the bottom. SDSU is #28 (probably higher now after their semi-final win.)
penguinpower:
--- Quote from: Wick250 on December 23, 2023, 02:50:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: Double ET on December 23, 2023, 01:04:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: Wick250 on December 23, 2023, 11:23:57 AM ---Immediate help will come from the transfers, not these young kids. If internet postings are accurate, we have several new faces for the secondary within the transfer group. Here is the big question: Does it really matter who we recruit on defense if we are stuck with the same defensive coaching staff?
--- End quote ---
Good point Wick. If we don’t improve on the defensive scheme next year, I don’t think any recruits will make any difference.
I don’t think our secondary talents were as bad as the statistics had shown. IMO, instead, they were actually the victims of a poor defensive scheme. In my past posting, I kept going back to the game that we tried to cover the best receiver in the MVFC with single coverage the entice game. Our poor cornerback kept getting burned over and over and the receiver had a career day. The secondary was made even more vulnerable by our inability to put pressure on the opposing QB.
I don’t think Brungard will be our future QB. This has nothing to do with his talent, I am just trouble believing that if he is, why would us not let him try to throw the ball? Oh, worse than that, we were having him return punts while he was the backup QB in the game.
On another hand, we are supposed to be a football college and yet, currently, our MBB is almost ranked in the top 100 in D1. I don’t think our football team is anywhere closed to be ranked in the top 100 nationwide.
Go penguins.
--- End quote ---
For the record, as of December 9 in the Sagarin Ratings, YSU is #123. We are #10 in FCS. We are rated higher than six MAC schools. Kent State is rated the worst FBS team in the country; Akron fifth from the bottom. SDSU is #28 (probably higher now after their semi-final win.)
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Great points. This is what I've been trying to say all year. That being said, I'm concerned that the DL will be an issue next year.
goodnews:
If the defensive front 7 doesn't get pressure on the QB or disrupt the backfield it doesn't matter who we have in the secondary. With the defections and graduation on defense we are in serious trouble.
YoungstownCity1796:
"On another hand, we are supposed to be a football college and yet, currently, our MBB is almost ranked in the top 100 in D1. I don’t think our football team is anywhere closed to be ranked in the top 100 nationwide."
YSU is a basketball school and has been for several years now. Maybe longer. And that's as it should be.
It's Division I competition with more parity; we still get to play big programs; there are natural regional rivalries in our conference; there's more games to enjoy and; it's not a violent sport subject to possibly permanently injuring young people for entertainment.
In fact, if given the choice between an FCS football championship, an NIT championship or March Madness appearance (consequence of a conference tourney championship), or a national championship in any other sport, I'll take NIT/NCAA tourney. Every. Time.
Most sports fans don't even care about FCS football to begin with. The average fan couldn't tell you who won the championship last year or who's in it this year without Googling it.
P5 separation will continue to create even further irrelevance to the remainder of Division I afterbirth. And those programs will just continue to drain school budgets out of some misplaced sense of pride.
Their highest possible achievement would, at best, be to win an irrelevant bowl game that only alumni or those with gambling habits would care about.
I'll take a sold out Beeghly for a NIT home game vs an Oklahoma State over an embarrassing 3K in an old stadium for the first home playoff game in years against a school from a level of football no one cares about, every year.
(Btw, instead of building a standalone WATTS facility, they should have taken time to raise more capital, phased out Stambaugh, and created a single, 10K-capacity, domed, multi-use facility for football, track and whatever else like a number of other schools in the MVFC...you know, since we're a football school and all. Only one facility to maintain and less folks want to sit in crap weather to watch YSU football; the fan base is getting older and it's super convenient to watch the game on the ESPN app. But I digress as that ship has sailed.)
Anyway, I know it's two different sports and two different season and folks can be supportive of both. But my point is when it comes to the question of "what sport is YSU?", I think it's become increasingly self-evident.
And if YSU MBB wins another 20+ games and a conference title this year, that's a two-handed jam on that argument.
Now fix those bleachers.
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