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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Sclazo reporting Wolford to get contract extension

« on: January 12, 2014, 01:28:33 PM »

Sounds to me like Strollo is just accepting mediocrity as he has in basketball.  Wolford has had a fair chance (4 years) and has not been able to back up his ego.  He blew it the last two years.  He quit in the NDS game when it was evident we could not match up with them.

I am a long time season ticket holder and am seriously considering not renewing as are many others I have talked to.  If the university has given up why shouldn't we.  Look for 4000 attendance figures again.  And as I see it if I do want to see a game there will be a lot of free or buy one get one tickets.

We also need to get out of the MVFC.  We cannot compete with the best in this league.  We need a league like the one Robert Morris is in where we might be able to win the championship & get the auto bid.

It is a shame that the current athletic administratiion has allowed our program to fall this far.  We used to be the program everyone benchmarked.  NDS was DII back then.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Trib: YSU (football) missing a key trend from the 1990s

« on: April 07, 2013, 01:49:29 PM »

Looks like another year of doing the same thing and expecting different results.  Looks like we are playing the same linebackers and defensive backs.  Average QB's play us and walk away with highlight video. 

Well look at the bright side we will stop the run - mainly because any coach that watches films on us is going to throw the ball.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Looks like YSU will have to go outside the B1G when scheduling a money game..

« on: February 20, 2013, 10:28:38 AM »

The MAC is settling for mediocracy.  Is our long term goal to become another Kent or Akron.  Are we ready for mid week night football games and no hope of ever making the playoffs.  The best we could hope for would be some meaningless bowl game.

It sounds like we are admitting that we can never return to being a top FCS team. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Jerry Slocum

« on: February 13, 2013, 10:41:15 AM »

1AA, I agree Strollo has been a driving force in upgrading our facilities which are 1st rate for a university of our size.  But what good are empty facilities?  Football attendance will drop this year due to the performance last year, the tailgate lots are half empty, basketball games are empty, and the only people who attend baseball, softball, soccer and olympic sports are the players friends and family.

The only successful coaching hire (potential money generating sports) is the current girls basketball coach, all others have not lived up to hype.

If you win, make the playoffs people will come.  You will not need a money game and a loss (exception of last year when Pitt did not take us seriously) the money will come from attendance, merchandise, gifts, etc. (remenber when both local malls had YSU stores).

I travel a lot around the country and proudly wear my penguin gear.  Our university has no recognition anymore.  It used to be that someone would see you in a YSU sh** and come over and talk football.  Most people across the country do not even know we exist anymore.

I believe the university would be better served by an AD the put emphases on winning for the major (money generating) sports.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Jerry Slocum

« on: February 11, 2013, 10:46:33 AM »

I agree with GoGuins, Strollo needs to go.  Under his leadership all of our sports programs have fallen into mediocrity.  All coaching hires (maybe with the exception of the new girls BB coach) have not worked out.  Even with upgrated pay for the football coaching staff it is starting to look like Wolf is not going to get it done.  We pay enough now that we can get better. 

Nothing personel against Strollo, he had his change but has not performed up to most fans expectations.  We need to bring in an AD that wants to win not just build facilities.  Kent State did that several years ago and look at the success they had this year. 

I truly believe that if the leadership in the AD is not changed nothing will change except less fan support.  The excitement and renewed belief in the FB program is fading and attendance will be down this year.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: USD In Game Thread

« on: November 03, 2012, 08:17:41 PM »

The two worst defenses in the MVFC in a defensive game.   

We have no defense and now our offense has disappeared.  13 points against a defense that is worst than ours.

SD in basically a D2 team.  If we had played a team with any offense at all we would lost by 21.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Fire Wolford

« on: October 28, 2012, 01:54:46 PM »

So we fire Wolford than what with our history we hire another bad coach.  The real cause of our problems, not only in football but in all sports, is that the person doing the hiring does not hire the right people.  Since Strollo has been in charge can anyone name one successful hire for a coaching position?  Our football program is down, our basketball programs both men & women are a joke.  Remember when the women went to the NCAA tournament pror to Strollo's hires. 

Until someone in charge decides that YSU wants winnng sports programs and gets rid of Strollo and hires someone who wants to win and knows how to select coaches nothing will change.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Question About Wolford

« on: October 23, 2012, 05:29:25 PM »

Does any one know how much more time Wolford has left in his contract?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Post Game Albany thoughts

« on: September 16, 2012, 10:45:43 AM »

Give Albany some credit.  They came to play and have a good coach who apparently studied alot of film and exposed our weaknesses.  We need to learn from this game & fix the weaknesses of we will be in troulble when we face the better teams in our league who are more talented than Albany..

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: How the D Stacks Up Statistically so Far

« on: October 23, 2011, 10:13:01 AM »

Defense Still Wins Championships

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Post-Game Thoughts?

« on: September 24, 2011, 07:44:56 PM »

I think the coach gets an F today.  The team was not ready to play.  No excusses.  Looks like they thought the off week was this week.

ISU was too fast for us today. 

Speed kills and defense wins games.