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Per FootballScoop, RB coach Ron Brown is leaving YSU and will become the new WR's coach at Liberty. Interesting....
FootballScoop Staff @FootballScoop · 2h 2 hours ago
Per source, there could soon be an opening on Bo Pelini's staff at Youngstown State http://footballscoop.com/the-scoop/
Liberty (FCS): Per source, pending final clearance, Youngstown State (FCS – OH) running backs coach / assistant head coach Ron Brown will be joining the staff and coaching the receivers.
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A huge taste of irony there.
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A huge taste of irony there.
That's pretty much the definition of irony! Liberty should be good setting for his, how shall I phrase this, "lack of political correctness". Personally I'm OK with his approach, but probably better off at Liberty than a typical bastion of liberal politics that is a public university.
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We lost a good coach.
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Turner Gill is the HC @ Liberty. Both ex Nebraska guys. I met Ron Brown class act.
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Turner Gill is the HC @ Liberty. Both ex Nebraska guys. I met Ron Brown class act.
Turner Gill really fell off the map. Remember when he was the next big thing?
Ron Brown will easily be replaced.
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Liberty is the only FCS school thus far to offer FCOA scholarships, and likely will be moving soon to the FBS. This seems like a really good fit for Coach Brown.
Our loss.
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I think that you are probably correct Nation. I simply do not know coach Brown.
Liberty will likely move up ...very nice college. Sam Ruttigliano went there (after they gave Tressel and not Sam the YSU job) & he was very successful. He then left the HC spot and became assistant Chancellor of Liberty. That is a very powerful position.
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Given his religious proclivities, this is a good move for Brown and for us. We don't really need any non-football related controversy. Liberty undoubtedly is building to "move up," but they will be disappointed. The new NCAA policy mandates that a FCS team can advance to FBS status only if they are admitted into an established FBS conference. I don't see public universities, even in the South, welcoming an intense and extreme religious institution that has nearly unlimited money to spend on sports.
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Given his religious proclivities, this is a good move for Brown and for us. We don't really need any non-football related controversy. Liberty undoubtedly is building to "move up," but they will be disappointed. The new NCAA policy mandates that a FCS team can advance to FBS status only if they are admitted into an established FBS conference. I don't see public universities, even in the South, welcoming an intense and extreme religious institution that has nearly unlimited money to spend on sports.
Boston College*
Notre Dame*
Holy Cross*
Creighton*
Fordham
Georgetown*
Loyola*
Marquette*
St Louis*
Dayton*
Portland
Villanova*
Xavier*
Those are just some of the Catholic Schools alone, those with asterisks have national championships to their credit (in either football and/or basketball) ...plenty of National championships here. There are many more Christian schools. The largest of which is probably Brigham Young and TCU. So Liberty is not even close to extreme & could do very well for themselves.
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The only conceivable FBS home for Liberty would be the Sunbelt Conference. For football, that currently consists of eleven schools, all public, stretching from the South into the Rockies. Their interest in adding a fundamentalist Protestant school to their ranks is zero.
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Ha ha ha, people were getting all worked up about this guy, he was going to corrupt our players with religion, run the program into the ground, yadda yadda yadda!
The big guy sure does work in mysterious ways, amen!
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C-USA may boot UAB since UAB dropped FB, and then invite Liberty. I think Liberty's preference is the Sun Belt. I've not read it anywhere, but I could see the MAC inviting Liberty in to further expand their market base.
What if Liberty...gulp...stays in the FCS? The massive recruiting advantage of being the only FCS school offering FCOA scholarships could make them an FCS behemoth....like NDSU.
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Ha ha ha, people were getting all worked up about this guy, he was going to corrupt our players with religion, run the program into the ground, yadda yadda yadda!
The big guy sure does work in mysterious ways, amen!
Thinking the same thing.
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Wish brown would have stayed. Great coach, great principles.
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Wish brown would have stayed. Great coach, great principles.
Agreed. And regardless of what Bo says, he wins here and in 3 years he gets a call from a SEC school, it would be nice to have an assistant head coach to step up, but what ya gonna do?
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I know this could just be "coach talk," but here is what the Vindicator is saying:
"Penguins coach Bo Pelini called reports that running backs coach Ron Brown is leaving YSU to take the wide receivers job at Liberty “way premature.” "Not that it’s out of the question, but he hasn’t taken a job at Liberty,” Pelini said. "
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Did a quick search and most of what I see on this is out of Nebraska and they are mostly sour grapes on anything related to Pelini or Brown. Only Youngstown story that showed up was this blog!!
Sounds like they may be having $$$ issues getting Brown signed, but Bo sounds like losing him wouldn't be a big surprise at this point. Got a couple months to resolve at this point.
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Wish brown would have stayed. Great coach, great principles.
I also agree
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Any update here?
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Liberty makes it official.
http://www.liberty.edu/flames/index.cfm?PID=10869&NewsID=14696&TeamID=
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Thanks
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Wonder if Bo can get somebody this late to come aboard?
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The good thing is that the running backs are a talented and veteran group, and obviously the system is the same under Montgomery. This seems like a good spot to hire an ambitious young coach who wants to make his mark in the profession.
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I hope everyone is happy. We lost a great coach.
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I hope everyone is happy. We lost a great coach.
The lefties on campus caused this one, it is quite clear. Sensitivity training because someone is against gay marriage. Give me a break. We are ALL entitled to our opinions and I am sure many people across our area share his stance, to a less extreme level.
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This isn't meant in direct reference to Ron Brown, because I don't consider him to be a bigot, but if you claim to be "all inclusive" shouldn't bigots, racists, homophobes etc. be included? Either you are inclusive or you’re not. This “politically correct” crowd running most of our institutions is perhaps the most bigoted and certainly hypocritical groups going.
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http://www.omaha.com/ron-brown-s-switch-from-youngstown-state-to-liberty-for/image_72b63659-9434-504d-948c-c93b946792af.html
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We lost an excellent coach in Ron Brown, he would have added to our running backs strength. I am sorry to see him go. I am sure he will be a credit to Liberty University; he will serve as running back coach and assistant head coach which will be mean more money.
Now we must get a running back coach prior to summer camp. I hope we can pull a good one out of the hat.
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Ditto Guins
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New RB Coach:
Youngstown State: Per source, Ohio Dominican running backs coach / special teams coordinator Pepe Pearson has accepted the running backs job at Youngstown State. Pearson spent the past 11 years on the Ohio Dominican staff. He also served as head coach of the National Indoor Football League’s Dayton Beach Hawgs from 2005-06 and head coach of the Continental Indoor Football League’s Marion Mayhem from 2007-09.
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Like the hire. Cleveland guy, very solid RB at Ohio State in the late 90's. Ranks 6th all-time in rushing yards for the Buckeyes. Young guy making his way up the coaching ranks now.
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Spent his whole life playing and coaching in the state, so probably has a lot of high school connections..
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Spent his whole life playing and coaching in the state, so probably has a lot of high school connections..
Very good observation!
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Spent his whole life playing and coaching in the state, so probably has a lot of high school connections..
Plus he learned a lot from Coach Conley, who I am told, thought very highly of him and his coaching abilities.