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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguins Announce December Signees
« on: December 23, 2023, 02:50:32 PM »Immediate help will come from the transfers, not these young kids. If internet postings are accurate, we have several new faces for the secondary within the transfer group. Here is the big question: Does it really matter who we recruit on defense if we are stuck with the same defensive coaching staff?Good point Wick. If we don’t improve on the defensive scheme next year, I don’t think any recruits will make any difference.
I don’t think our secondary talents were as bad as the statistics had shown. IMO, instead, they were actually the victims of a poor defensive scheme. In my past posting, I kept going back to the game that we tried to cover the best receiver in the MVFC with single coverage the entice game. Our poor cornerback kept getting burned over and over and the receiver had a career day. The secondary was made even more vulnerable by our inability to put pressure on the opposing QB.
I don’t think Brungard will be our future QB. This has nothing to do with his talent, I am just trouble believing that if he is, why would us not let him try to throw the ball? Oh, worse than that, we were having him return punts while he was the backup QB in the game.
On another hand, we are supposed to be a football college and yet, currently, our MBB is almost ranked in the top 100 in D1. I don’t think our football team is anywhere closed to be ranked in the top 100 nationwide.
Go penguins.
For the record, as of December 9 in the Sagarin Ratings, YSU is #123. We are #10 in FCS. We are rated higher than six MAC schools. Kent State is rated the worst FBS team in the country; Akron fifth from the bottom. SDSU is #28 (probably higher now after their semi-final win.)