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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: New Basketball Coach

« on: February 01, 2011, 07:54:27 PM »

Dan Peters left primarily because he was frustrated coaching basketball at a football school where the athletic director was also the football coach.  So he would jump at the opportunity to return to the football school where the athletic director was a former football player for his old boss.  He would love to compete in the Horizon League with a lower recruiting budget than any rival.  He would enjoy trying to rebuild a program in this amazingly fertile basketball recruiting zone called the Mahoning Valley.  Yep, seem perfectly logical to me.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Work gets started on YSU’s WATTS Center

« on: December 01, 2010, 12:56:48 PM »

If you talk to our track athletes, they desperately wanted the indoor facility.  During the summer, most see no problem practicing at their old high school.  Distance runners have the perfect facility in Mill Creek Park.

Long-range plans call for an outdoor track west of Fifth Avenue.  That can only happen with a new round of private donations.  Compared to having your name associated with the WATTS center, that is going to be a very hard sell to the local fat cats.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Work gets started on YSU’s WATTS Center

« on: May 26, 2010, 06:54:48 PM »

Elpenguin

Thanks for the info.  I was getting nervous as nothing was happening for the entire month.  Your explanation has eased my concerns.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Work gets started on YSU’s WATTS Center

« on: April 30, 2010, 03:12:01 PM »

Just a quick update.  The site has been cleared and graded down to level dirt. There is no construction going on yet. Since about 75% of this facility is basically a warehouse, and warehouses can be constructed very quickly, this facility should go up rapidly.  Of course, starting construction would be nice.