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Wick250:
Four years ago, I posted a summary of our sports for the just concluded academic year.  The picture was bleak and ugly.  Except for Gorby's runners, who themselves had an off-year, we stunk at just about everything.  Our women's sports were especially awful, marked in infamy by a basketball team that lost all of their games.

Four years later and it is hard to believe that we are talking about the same programs.  Here is a summary of our 18 sports and how they finished their league competitions.

Fall Season, Men:

2nd Football (a statistical quirk from which nobody can take any satisfaction.)
2nd Cross-country (runner-up in conference meet)

Fall Season, Women:

6th Soccer (lost in tournament first round)
3rd Volleyball (lost in the tournament semi-finals)
1st Cross-country (champions of conference meet)

Winter Season, Men:

7th Basketball (lost in tournament first round)
2nd Track and Field (runner-up in conference meet)

Winter Season, Women:

3rd Basketball (lost in tournament semi-finals)
6th Swimming and Diving
1st Track and Field (champions of conference meet)

Spring Season, Men:

3rd Golf (third place in conference tournament)
3rd Tennis (lost in conference semi-finals)
1st Track and Field (champions of conference meet)
1st Baseball (champions of conference tournament)

Spring Season, Women:

3rd Golf (third place in conference tournament)
1st Tennis (champions of conference tournament)
1st Track and Field (champions of conference meet)
5th Softball (lost in second round of conference tournament)

For every three sports in which we participated, we won a championship (6 out of 18.)  Amazing.
Our women won 40% of the available championships in the Horizon League.  Amazing.
To use the horse racing parlance of win-place-show as an indication of success, we finished at least third in 14 of 18 sports. (77.7%)

Now I realize that as long as the football team remains bad and the basketball team flirts with oblivion, these women and Olympic sports victories will mean very little to most of you.  Nor do I think that these successes exonerate the performance of an athletic director who fails in his prime mission (football playoffs) 91% of the time.  But in interest of fairness, these figures must be documented.

paladin:
The problem lost on the picture is that YSU is in a league that is a DOG, except for basketball. Citing the place  they finish avoids some obvious eyesores. Baseball gets into the NCAA but has a 17-38 record when done. Much can be said for the   other sports as the HL is terribly weak. The fact that YSU has finally improved in the DOG that is the HL is way overdue. However, its not lost that compared   to other  D-I programs, YSU isn't very good. Still.

Once again the  outside world recognizes  that, but the rose colored glasses crowd marches on.  If your parochial vision is all you want, understand others may continue to laugh at the less than 20/20 vision here.

Wick250:
Sorry Paladin, I no longer value anything that you have to say.  You exposed yourself this year as merely a YSU hater, in the same category as the hack "journalist" at the Vindicator.  Your pathetic attempt to tarnish these accomplishments reinforces my evaluation.  Should others here continue to value your opinion, that is fine.  Free country and all of that.  I don't value the thoughts of anyone who hates the institution that I love.

edpuskas:
Wick, don't drag us into your skunk match. And if you're going to critique someone's work, you ought to have the guts to do under your own name, not a pseudonym.

ELPENGUIN:
I would like all of us to use our names not some moniker to hide behind.  How about it?

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