Morehead State

[AFGuin]

Thoughts? Predictions?

[ysufan0505]

Hopefully a bigger margin than last night lol

[ScarletRook]

"I think it was a night where we kept shooting ourselves in the foot with penalties and exchange problems with our quarterback and center we haven’t had since spring practice.”

In a first half that featured no scoring from either team, the Eagles had four chances to score but were marred by turnovers and penalties.

A missed 42-yard field goal, a Pikeville interception and a fumble on the Pikeville 20-yard line ended three straight drives in the first half.

   Morehead State Head Coach


Sound familiar?   Hopefully that's in the past for the Guins.

[pioneer9]

Watched the highlights from Pikeville. Morehead State seemed to be a little heavier pass offense but still have the ability to run.  Smaller receivers who are more likely to catch a 4 yd. flat and take it 12 yards after catch than go deep. Quarterback is a balanced passer and runner... Threw 53 times in their first game and also led the team in rushing yards (and had 10 Rush attempts which shows that's how the coaching staff plans to use him).  He's young as a redshirt freshman but seemed to evidence the same passer/runner tendencies in HS. Defense allowed A LOT of rushing yards against an NAIA Pikeville team (195) but held on third down allowing only 3 of 14 attempts. Also sacked the quarterback 5 times

In short they look a lot like Dayton... Why is this a good thing? Well, Dayton revealed a lot of weaknesses (vulnerability against a running QB who can complete the short/mid range pass, tough time against mid-distance route running receivers, entire passing game was off).  Playing a team with similar attributes and tendencies as Dayton will allow us to see if the Penguins went back to practice and fixed some of the issues that plaqued them last night.

[AFGuin]

after this weekend YSU needs to look alot better or i think this is going to be a long and possible a losing season.

Indiana State even put up 35 on Indiana
NDSU beat KSU
Southern Illinois only lost by 8 to Illinois
NIU beat Iowa State
Illinois State put up 28 on Ball State
SDSU beat a Dayton type school 55-14


The confrence looks as strong as it ever has this year in week 1

[ValleyTalk]

after this weekend YSU needs to look alot better or i think this is going to be a long and possible a losing season.

Indiana State even put up 35 on Indiana
NDSU beat KSU
Southern Illinois only lost by 8 to Illinois
NIU beat Iowa State
Illinois State put up 28 on Ball State
SDSU beat a Dayton type school 55-14


The confrence looks as strong as it ever has this year in week 1

Don't sugarcoat the Indiana State outcome. Indiana was favored by 24 and they won by 38 over the Sycamores. They gave up 73 points to one of the absolute worst Big Ten programs over the past decade.

SIU against Illinois wasn't a huge surprise. Spread was only 17 in that one and Illinois is not that good.

We may be well in the hunt until November until we play the three best teams in the league, UNI, NDSU, and SDSU.

[AFGuin]

after this weekend YSU needs to look alot better or i think this is going to be a long and possible a losing season.

Indiana State even put up 35 on Indiana
NDSU beat KSU
Southern Illinois only lost by 8 to Illinois
NIU beat Iowa State
Illinois State put up 28 on Ball State
SDSU beat a Dayton type school 55-14


The confrence looks as strong as it ever has this year in week 1

Don't sugarcoat the Indiana State outcome. Indiana was favored by 24 and they won by 38 over the Sycamores. They gave up 73 points to one of the absolute worst Big Ten programs over the past decade.

SIU against Illinois wasn't a huge surprise. Spread was only 17 in that one and Illinois is not that good.

We may be well in the hunt until November until we play the three best teams in the league, UNI, NDSU, and SDSU.

who knew telling the truth was sugar coating anything  Who cares ? does that change the fact they scored more on a B1G then YSU did on a non-scholarship team? Indiana scored 49 on Ohio State last year and only lost by 3, Indiana has a good team this year

SIU and Illinois is still an FCS vs FBS game

We wont even be over .500 by November if they play like they did vs Dayton, many teams in the confrence played alot better then YSU

[letsgoguins]

Everyone thought we were going to win the title last year after beating down Pitt, did we... No. The same mindset applies to the Dayton game. We played mediocre, but it likely won't define our season.

Here is a stat the naysayers can't deny:
@letsgoguins: Dating back to last season, YSU has given up just 33 points in their last four games (4-0). The previous 4 games (0-4): 162 points. #YSU

[penguinpower]

What does the scoring stat in the last 4 games look like?

[ysufan0505]

Hess better get it together

[ItalianPenguin]

YSU has opened as a 41 point favorite

[ysuindy]

YSU has opened as a 41 point favorite

That's what happens when you a play team that lost to a NAIA team.

[penguinpower]

I watched the press conference from yesterday.

Go to www.youtube.com

then search for Youngstown State Athletics

It will show the Youngstown Stae channel.  Worth your while.  I tried to show the link the other day on here but the link will not take you to this specific location.


Anyhow,  our players know that they are playing down again.  My message to them is this: 

No team is as good as they seem or bad as they seem they are somehwhere between.  Take this team seriously because if you are serious about making the playoffs down the road and you don't win the conference, the margin of victory will be helpful as style points to the committee regardless if it is not supposed to be a factor.  In order to be a champion you have to play like a champion every game and every single down.  Champions are never satisfied with their results either so don't get hung up patting yourself on the back when you achieve a key victory or season milestone (we hae seen this before), because the next game is going to be even more difficult.  As you get better the the target painted on you grows bigger so keep you heads down on the grinding stone and work.

[AFGuin]

YSU has opened as a 41 point favorite

 

[ysufan0505]

If ysu doesn't score at least 40 points, I'm officially worried.