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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2 Twitter reports that Steve Gillispie is new YSU baseball coach

« on: July 04, 2012, 12:43:07 PM »

If this is so. ...this is an outstanding hire. This is not someone that is "hanging around" a program. This is a contributor at a program superior to our own.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Drew Dosch Tabbed Horizon League Scholar-Athlete of the Month

« on: June 28, 2012, 07:30:08 PM »

Indianapolis, Ind. -- Youngstown State sophomore third baseman Drew Dosch was named the Horizon League's men's Scholar-Athlete of the Month for May/June, the conference announced this week.

Dosch helped lead the Penguins to a third-place finish at the Horizon League Championships. He batted a .310 with 18 hits, 7 runs scroed, two home runs, 15 RBIs and six doubles during May (14 games). Dosch was a first-team All-Horizon League selection as a third baseman and finished third in batting average, third in home runs, third in total bases, fourth in slugging percentage and fifth in hits in the Horizon League in 2012.

An integrated social sciences education major, Dosch received a 4.00 GPA in each of his first four semesters at YSU. It is the second month in a row that Dosch has been named Scholar-Athlete of the Month by the Horizon League. In addition, he was named a Second-Team Capital One Academic All-American by CoSIDA in 2012 and is an active member of YSU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

The Horizon League Scholar-Athlete of the Month recognizes outstanding academic and athletic achievements. To be eligible for the honor, the student-athlete must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 or better (on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, passed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours and perform well during the month's competition. Winners are selected by the League's faculty athletics representatives, from nominations provided by sports information directors.

Wright State's Colleen Schneider (softball) was tabbed the female Scholar-Athlete of the Month.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Pasquale out as a baseball coach

« on: June 25, 2012, 12:30:58 PM »

Good info Indy:

A couple of nice choices. Lipari and Linlater are pitching coaches, where Massarelli is a field-coach. Pasquale was a field coach; where Florak was more of a pitching coach. If I knew that Antush wanted to stay (a quality pitching coach, and lots of collegiate experience) ...I like Massarelli. His school focuses on offense. Also, the pro-connections are appealing. The lack of college-level coaching experience is tough though; but Antush offers any new coach a good foundation. He makes a great corporeal to a new Sargent. I say look for resume's from Kent, but it is unlikely that the flash admin would look too kindly on someone staying so close.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Update on Justin Thomas

« on: June 22, 2012, 01:59:38 PM »

We had a bad year, and lost 3 players from the minors. However:

Phil Klein pitches for Hickory, NC (A)
Eric Marzec pitches for Huntsville, AL (AA)
Thomas as you mentioned (AAA & NYY)


Jack Healy left Tri-City. I saw him play against the Scrappers last year.


That is all I am aware of. I am sure there are more we are missing.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Pasquale out as a baseball coach

« on: June 22, 2012, 01:06:29 PM »

I might point out that Stony Brook has 3 players on the all-America team, and Kent has 2. It can be done.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: SkunkApeKiller Manifesto 2.0

« on: June 19, 2012, 06:14:17 AM »

Hello Skunk. We appreciate the posts, but you cannot just log in and push the topic to the top ...the topic is not that interesting. I have left the topic, but closed it down for more posts.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / YSU Athletics to Hold Equipment Sale July 27-28 at Stambaugh, WATTS

« on: June 16, 2012, 10:11:00 AM »

The Youngstown State Athletics Department will be holding an equipment sale, July 27-28, during the football program's 7-on-7 Passing Camp at Stambaugh Stadium and the Watson and Tressel Training Site.

This sale is available to the general public and it is not required for an individual to be registered for a YSU athletic camp to purchase equipment during this sale.

For more information on the equipment sale, please contact YSU Equipment Manager Alvy Armstrong on (330) 941-3725.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / CWS

« on: June 16, 2012, 02:00:35 AM »

All this talk about Stony Brook in the CWS. People are ignoring Kent State. HUGE HUGE playing for this team. This is a team with no weaknesses. They cannot get down tomorrow, and they match-up well against Arkansas. So I ask you to look at this:

No.    Name    Pos.    Ht.    Wt.    B/T    Cl.    Hometown/High School (Previous School)
1    Jimmy Rider    INF    5-10    170    R/R    Sr.    Venetia, Pa./Peters Township
2    Derek Toadvine    INF    5-11    165    R/R    So.    Springfield, Ohio/Kenton Ridge
5    T.J. Sutton    OF    5-10    180    L/L    So.    Uniontown, Ohio/Canton GlenOak
7    Nick Hamilton    INF    6-1    190    S/R    R-Jr.    Avon Lake, Ohio/Avon Lake (Xavier)
8    Josh Pierce    RHP    6-1    215    R/R    R-Fr.    Avon, Ohio/Avon
11    Joe Koch    OF    5-8    165    L/L    5-Sr.    Youngstown, Ohio/Austintown-Fitch
12    Alex Miklos    OF    5-10    184    R/R    Fr.    Grove City, Pa./Grove City
13    John Birkbeck    RHP    6-2    165    R/R    Fr.    Canton, Ohio/GlenOak
14    Evan Campbell    INF/OF    6-0    170    L/R    Jr.    Beloit, Ohio/West Branch
17    Jacob Neuschaefer    OF    5-10    170    R/R    Fr.    Elyria, Ohio/Elyria
19    Ryan Bores    RHP    6-3    195    R/R    Jr.    Strongsville, Ohio/Strongsville (Cuyahoga Community College)
22    Casey Wilson    RHP    6-1    195    R/R    Jr.    Sagamore Hills, Ohio/Archbishop Hoban
23    Tommy Monnot    C    6-4    190    R/R    Fr.    Canton, Ohio/GlenOak
25    Troy Summers    OF    6-1    185    R/R    R-So.    Minerva, Ohio/Minerva (Akron)
27    Jeff Revesz    C    5-10    185    R/R    Fr.    Grove City, Pa./Grove City
29    Michael Clark    LHP    6-2    180    L/L    R-So.    Akron, Ohio/American Heritage (North Carolina State)
30    Brian Clark    LHP    6-3    210    L/L    Fr.    Munroe Falls, Ohio/Stow-Munroe Falls
31    Tyler Skulina    RHP    6-6    235    R/R    So.    Strongsville, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit (Virginia)
32    Ryan Mace    RHP    6-0    190    R/R    Sr.    Tallmadge, Ohio/Tallmadge
33    Tim Faix    LHP    6-2    185    L/L    Fr.    Strongsville, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit
34    Jason Bagoly    C/1B    6-3    235    R/R    Jr.    Austintown, Ohio/Austintown-Fitch
37    David Starn    LHP    6-3    190    L/L    Sr.    Hudson, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit
38    Jason Revesz    RHP    5-7    160    R/R    Fr.    Grove City, Pa./Grove City
39    Dan Kopcak    RHP    6-0    165    R/R    R-Fr.    Streetsboro, Ohio/Streetsboro
40    Eric Dorsch    RHP    6-7    240    R/R    R-Fr.    Gibsonia, Pa./North Allegheny

This is where we need to be. These are all kids an hour (or less) away from here. Last season they lost all of their games against major teams, but they played a really tough schedule. This year they did not play as tough a schedule. Yet they won the regional both seasons ...and are in the CWS. If the $$ are right, coach Daily would come here. He is a good batter's coach, and lives local. If Strollo is smart, he keeps coach Antush to coach our hurlers. Or pay Antush enough draw him away from Hickory as our HC. We can do it!!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Devont'a Davis leaves team

« on: June 14, 2012, 01:52:16 PM »

Too bad. I thought he tackled very well for his size, but lacked the "hands" to work effectively in the secondary.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Expansion

« on: June 12, 2012, 12:59:34 PM »

One more thing to consider. I-AA/FCS football allows partial schoarships. So we may actually have 100 players receiveing some assistance ...but the total equivalent is equal to 68. In other sports (including IA/FBS) football ...the rules are different. For example, at an Akron, Kent, or Michigan State ...they all are allowed 83 football players on scholarship. There are no partials. Here is an example:

Michigan State: big school. 83 players receiving full scholarship.

Kent: having a bad year financially. They are not required to offer all 83 players a scholarship, but they are all eligible to receive it. So if they do not get it ...what are the chances they will stay? Like YSU, they can offer a partial scholarship, but it counts as a full-ride to the NCAA. That is the big difference between FCS and FBS. We have equivalents, where FBS does not.

YSU, theoretically, can offer a 25% ride to 272 football players. This is why it is so important to try and recruit local players. They can live at home for a year ...and we do not need to pay them residence dollars. Then we give the residence component of their scholarship to an out-of-state player that is on academic, or some other non-athletic scholarship ...or maybe a 5th-year guy. Confusing ...but that is how it works. The NCAA has "clamped-down" on this quite a bit is recent years. For example, they do not like you to divide by more than education and residence (50/50) expenses ...but it can be done, when a player receives a partial scholarship from another source. Of course they added "payola" last year ...so players will get some spending cash as well ...the team is not penalized for this.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Expansion

« on: June 12, 2012, 08:24:49 AM »

I am not saying they are close to the 68 ... most are far from. The difference is how our football scholarships are applied. You mentioned it in your last post HL fan. Now LaCrosse and gymnastics (especially gymnastics) have quite large teams. UIC spends probably about the same number of scholarships in gymnastics, as we do in football ...probably even more. However, it is evenly distributed between men and women ...thus making the title-IX people happy. We have to make up the difference as our 68 scholarships all go to men. Thus we said goodbye to wrestling, men's swimming and diving. Brought in women's basketball, tennis, and golf. Then again, aside from throwing title-IX out the window ...I would take football over everything else. As would most everyone in town and on the board.

Also, Loyola is highly-competitive in  men's volleyball ...several NCAA tourney's. There are a great number of scholarships there. You cannot have two teams, Lacrosse and Field hockey, without at least 16-scholarships on each team. Valpo may not offer true scholarships in football, but most every solid player is on some form of assistance ...grants, need-based scholarships, intellectual scholarships. They try to pull the old "Notre Dame" on us. You know ...'our players are actually students first' line of BS.


With UDM adding Track & Field; I still say, get CSU to bring back baseball, and YSU to offer men's soccer ...and the conference can stay as is ...then pull in new teams that you want ...not simply what you need to fill an NCAA requirement. Even if we moved to the MAC, we would need to have men's soccer ...so why not get started with the new facility? That is why we are building it.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Expansion

« on: June 12, 2012, 06:03:58 AM »

One thing that I might add is also absurd ...is for a DI college in a major city ...with an MLB team ...not to have a baseball team ...CLEVELAND. Bring your team back & we are set. Also, Green Bay is a big skiing college. This is a sport that is not in the conference, but does go against their scholarship totals.

Kinda like football at YSU.   

Not quite as bad. We have a total of 68 scholarships for football. UWGB has only about 20. UIC has huge gymnastics programs ...every bit the size of our football in terms of scholarships. Loyola has a fully-funded mens volleyball program. CSU does fencing & wrestling. UDM has fencing and lacrosse for both sexes. Just about all the HL schools have sports that are not supported by the conference. In fact, we are one of only a couple schools without a men's soccer program.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Expansion

« on: June 11, 2012, 02:41:11 PM »

There are a lot of errors in that article, especially in the enrollment figures in the chart.  It will be interesting to see just how serious the League is about maintaining the auto bid for baseball.  Here is one solution.  Develop a new policy that states that each member MUST participate in three of the following four men's sports: soccer, basketball (obviously,) track and field, and baseball.  Right now we have two members, Green Bay and Cleveland State, that just take the spring season off, except for individual sports like golf and tennis.  For a so-called Division I school, that is absurd.  So Green Bay and Cleveland, start a track program or field a baseball team.  Lacking track facilities, my guess is that both schools would opt for baseball.  The penalty for not engaging in three sports from that list: a substantially reduced share of NCAA basketball money.

One thing that I might add is also absurd ...is for a DI college in a major city ...with an MLB team ...not to have a baseball team ...CLEVELAND. Bring your team back & we are set. Also, Green Bay is a big skiing college. This is a sport that is not in the conference, but does go against their scholarship totals.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Athlon Top 25

« on: June 08, 2012, 05:55:18 AM »

I see your point Power.

I guess my aggravation over this poll is that they did spend time looking at last year's record for the teams. So ...why is GSU #2, and NDSU at #3? I think the Eagles crossed the 50-yard line one time in each half in their 35-7 loss to NDSU. Maybe these guys really did their homework ...but we have to have something to discuss until summer camp 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Athlon Top 25

« on: June 07, 2012, 03:46:46 PM »

I don't know. Athlon has still always been a very pro A-10/CAA site. That is all the rankng for NDSU is. #1 or #3 ...should always be a 1-loss or undefeated team ...and they are defending champs. You are quite correct on some key losses. In fact they should be #3 team in the MVFC. None-the-less ...if you are going to show respect of the top-5 ...#1 is where a defensing champ belongs.

5. JMU
6. ODU
7. Towson

I mean Old Dominion proved the problems in the CAA in 2011, yet they have these high rankings. If you are doing your homework ...you will see that Villanova returns "literally" the entire team ...less the punter. Also, they have had only 1 season with more than 3-losses in the past 10-years (last year).  Where are they? ODU returns their star QB, but loses all their receivers, all but 1 O-lineman, the entire secondary, punter, and kicker. Now if you look very closely, ODU had 2 punters last year, so they are okay. They also return their RB's.  So things look good for them ...but not top-10 worthy. JMU ...we all know their coach is an ass ...but he wins. But they have had 5-losses in each of the past 3-seasons (how was that play-off worthy? We all know the answer). They lose much of their defensive middle and secondary ...along with their two-best O-Linemen. I understand they brought in a new QB. Towson brought in a great cpach a few years back ...you have to respect their rank @ 7. In fact you could call them the top team in the CAA, but with no track record ....probably not. They do return a lot of seniors ...but who knows ...they could just as easily end-up with a more traditional 2-win season.


I guess my point it that they are picking favorites, more than analyzing. In fact, the only reason YSU is in any top-25 is out of respect for the heritage, and name recognition. Will we be the big "sleeper" in 2012? I hope so.