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Another rough November for Wolford (from this morning's Vindicator)

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seanbryan3:
Hunter Wells made a decision. The corner did not make the play on the ball. The DE made an athletic, great football play. Not a mistake, it was a good play. Does that kid ever make that play ever again, probably not. But I will in no way blame that kid for the play. And neither will the players on the team as I spoke with half of the them as we all sat around and watched the Fl State Miami game together.

YSU FAN#34:
Ohio, sorry to see you go. IMO, there is absolutely no reason for anyone on this board to NEED any previous playing or coaching experience to KNOW that if you can't make the playoffs then you can't coach here.  Pretty simple. Also, i don't believe it matters where a person lives or has lived to understand what the expectations are at YSU.  Again i think its pretty simple:

Mr. Candidate,

Don't pay too close attention to those Championship Banners...we know that was quite special and perhaps not easy to duplicate.  However, i would like you to answer the following questions:

Question 1.  How many times did YSU make the playoffs in the 1990's?
Question 2.  How many times did YSU make the playoffs in the 2000's?
Question 3.  How many times did YSU make the playoffs since 2010?
Question 4.  How many times did the two previous coaches make the playoffs?
Question 5.  Any questions???

SoupCity:
"You don't know that the kid that might have gotten a personal foul was in the coach's office the day before because his dad beat the sh** out of his mom last night and is now in jail."

Then the kid shouldn't have been playing that game.  That's a lot to deal with, I agree.

"Or the quarterback that threw an interception is worried about his girlfriend that is in the hospital having a baby. "

Then the kid shouldn't have been playing that game.  That's a lot to deal with, I agree.

"Or the punt returner that fumbled got a call from his mom last night that his family was evicted and he needs to send his Pell Grant money home (just a few things that happened in one week while  I was playing). "

Then the kid shouldn't have been playing that game.  That's a lot to deal with, I agree.

Do you seem the theme there???

Lets_Talk:
Head Coaches do NOT call players out in the media, or throw them under the bus. If they think a player or players are to blame, they give evasive answers to the media, and then discuss the issue/issues with the player/players behind closed doors.

The EASIEST way to lose a team is by bad mouthing the players in the media after a loss. Wolford has been doing this his ENTIRE time at YSU. For that matter, he bad mouthed Heacock and the players inherited from Heacock upon taking the job.

He came in talking brash, which is fine, provided the talk is backed up by performance. Fair or unfair, the HC gets the praise when a team performs well, and gets the blame when the team does not meet expectations. Any person who has ever coached knows this is the case. And, in each sport, players at certain positions get more credit than they may deserve for wins, and more of the blame for losses. It is like this in sports. It is like this in pretty much every profession.

If a K-12 school does not perform well academically, has a host of discipline problems, and is just a mess in general, the Principal is going to take the fall. If a company is doing poorly with sales, the Sales Manager is going to take the fall. If a company is performing poorly in another area, the department manager/managers are going to take the blame. Especially when it is their 5th year on the job, they have been given pretty much everything they asked for in terms of budget, facilities and other upgrades asked for in order to produce for the company. Alot of people on here have or are are blaming Ron Strollo for the coaching failures of Heacock, Wolford, Slocum, Hill, Martin. And, that is understandable, because Ron Strollo is the AD, and he is the person who made the decision to hire these coaches. Fair or unfair, that is the way it works, and ANY person hired as AD of a D1 college sports program knows this when taking the job.

Eric Wolford has dug his own grave if this ends up being his final season as HC at YSU. And, unlike with Coach Heacock, I do not think there will be many people shedding a tear for Wolford. Not because people wanted the team to lose, but because Wolford has done plenty to irk a whole host of people over the past 5 years, and not being able to get the team to the playoffs is only ONE of those things.

He and his team still have one game left to play, with an opportunity to win and make the playoffs. If YSU fails to beat NDSU, I see no reason keeping Wolford can be justified. And, if YSU loses and he is kept on for another season, there will be even fewer tickets sold for next years games, and even fewer people that actually attend the games. That will be a negative for the entire athletic department.

ysufan0505:
If Wolf had a different OC, we woulda made the playoffs a long time ago. How many times is this man going to get let off the hook because he sets records beating up Valpo and Butler but when it comes down to crunch time.... his offense crumbles like a cookie. Sigh.

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