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Wolf Officially Gone
SoupCity:
Paladin, WINNING isn't enough anymore. Everyone on here realizes they waited too long for Heacock to be removed. Wolford hasn't show the ability to adjust in 5 years. If he stayed around any longer and continued to lead this program like he did for the last 5 years (and who is to say he would have gotten any better as a Head Coach) then you would be b****ing with your BS about being 7-5 every year. THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!
I really wish everyone would look outside of their tunnel vision of wins/losses. Yes, Eric Wolford brought more wins to the program. Yes, Eric Wolford brought better athletes to the program. Yes, Eric Wolford provided much needed depth to the program. And everyone saying, YSU was 1 win away for the last 3 or 4 years. WINNING is only going to get you so far, when you INEVITABLY go on month long losing streaks. Based on what most people here think, 1 WIN....just 1 WIN would have gotten YSU to the playoffs in each of the last 3 years. GUESS WHAT....Eric Wolford was not able to get that 1 WIN to get over the hump. What does that tell you? The program hasn't improved enough to be a perennial playoff team.
What Eric Wolford didn't do is properly develop and coach said athletes. Athletes are only going to take you so far throughout a season. And I can even state, that his athletes are not very good FOOTBALL PLAYERS. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. Hopefully the new coach will be able to develop the athletes into football players.
Read the article again with Shaw and Radakovich. His biggest failure, was not being able to develop a TEAM. Favoritism, personal relationships, adjustments or lack thereof cost him the job. Last time I checked the NDSUs of the world have great TEAMS. YSU may have GREAT athletes, but they're not a great team. End of story.
IAA Fan:
Paladin:
I think any of us would just die if you said one thing positive about the program; without qualifiers or a real-quick negative post following-up. :)
The second we had mass-defections just after Wolf was hired, was the time to have pulled the plug. Now I am glad we did not, I gain tremendous respect for him; but just because we gave him a learning curve, does not mean we pulled too soon. He had a losing record in conference over a 5-year period of time, so he was not 1-game away from losing his job; he was on the way out.
We clearly pulled both too late and too soon for Heacock. He should have left years before he did; but he broke into the post-season with good payroll figures and we extended. He begged to move into more of a spread offense well-before he was allowed. However, once we saw his spread started to gel ...we should have kept him for a few more years (at least 2). Secondly this supposed hatred of recruiting is the biggest pile of crap I have ever heard. He recruited very well, but did not have adequate under-staff to completely trust ...so it was a huge burden for him to back them up. Wolf had very-talented under-staff and he still left his initial recruiting class to a high-school webmaster ...which killed him initially. A bunch of high-school stars, left us with little more than a good prep program ...which was evident by the number of Heacock players that continued to be our stars for the next 4-years. In his tenure Heacock made a couple of big skilled-player mistakes recruiting, but our teams were robust and talented in an era where making the post-season was far more difficult than it is now.
guinpen:
--- Quote from: paladin on November 25, 2014, 09:50:49 PM ---LOL....count the number of teams I. The layoffs with 8-4 and 7-5 records. I do believe most here have lost all perspective. Even Tressel would not duplicate what he did before. Times have changed. The next guy needs a good agent. A lot of folks are going to be surprised.........
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I thought that you were looking for another team to follow or was that a dream
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