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I hope coach can get players from the portal that will be here for couple of years instead of one and done.
I hope a lot of power 5 bench players will join the mid majors by entering the portal to get more playing time.
Speaking on the question on whether coach C will stay after this year’s success, the FDU head coach just left to join Iona after just one year on the job. Of course, he took the team to the big dance and took down the one seat.
That whole dynamic with FDU is crazy. If it weren't for the ridiculous rule that a school moving up to D1 can't be eligible for postseason, Merrimack would have made the tournament and Tobin Anderson wouldn't even have been considered for the Iona job.
Instead FDU gets a play in game and wins, then takes down Purdue, and nearly pulled off another upset to the Sweet 16. It got the FDU program a ton of exposure. I did not know FDU had the smallest team in college basketball and didn't realize he took a 4-win team to what he accomplished in one year. As I mentioned before, ironically Brandon Rush was at FDU last year.
However, with that success now FDU is probably starting all over again.
The league schedules for both the men and women are now posted on the YSU athletics site. Once again the Horizon League did us no favors. Both the men and women play the first two weekends on the road. The league also determined that there will be no fans for league games played in December. Attendance at non-conference games is up to the individual school.
But wouldn't playing games on the road when their is a guarantee of no fans in the crowd actually be to your favor?
I agree that playing a road game inside an empty gym is better, but the need to travel and the home team's familiarity with the environment probably are the biggest disadvantages.
Here is the thing that really makes me unhappy. Look at our schedule. 8 out of the first 10 games are on the road. We could have a really good team, go 4-6, and be disillusioned before the second half of the season. And the league did that to us when, for the first time ever, we are a consensus contender.
The league schedules for both the men and women are now posted on the YSU athletics site. Once again the Horizon League did us no favors. Both the men and women play the first two weekends on the road. The league also determined that there will be no fans for league games played in December. Attendance at non-conference games is up to the individual school.
There is a nice article on the YSU site that covers the history of football. Unfortunately it was written by a Buckeye fan
Hoops,Thanks Wick. I know the new to D1 was not correct, and I thought the tournament appearances was incorrect also. Thanks for setting the record straight.
Nothing new about our baseball program. We have been DI in baseball and every other sport since our transition from D2 forty years ago. Also, we have two NCAA tournament appearances in baseball. The last, I think, in 2014.
The 1st tournament appearance I'm looking for is the NCAA Men's Basketball! Probably not there just yet, but certainly headed in the right direction. Only thing bad about making the Big Dance is it will probably cost us a coach.
I was shocked when I saw that 2148 attendance figure. The south bleachers were packed (thanks in part to the football team,) the red seats were much more thickly occupied than usual, and significant people in the east and west bleachers. Definitely in the 3500 range. Like most mid-majors, we lie to enhance attendance figures. Why we would lie in the opposition direction, I have no idea.
Unless they only counted the paid customers.i don’t know if they kept tracked of the students who could get in by just showing their ID.