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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Question for Any Tennis Experts
« on: March 25, 2014, 11:29:54 PM »
Tennis.....
Really???
Really???
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If that speed is real, and the TB's do not mind, I would not mind having a dedicated return man.
Someone named Stewart from Florida has committed on Twitter. Can't find the full name just yet. Looks like a LB.
Jonathan Stewart. LB from St. Cloud high school in FL
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/2257563/jonathan-stewart
I respectfully disagree that YSU was not every bit as dominant as NDSU or App State during the span from the8th game of the 1991 season, through the Championship Game in 1994.
4 straight 1AA Championship Games
3 NC's in 4 years
Lone loss was by 3 points, to Marshall, in what was essentially a home game for Marshall
93 Title, YSU beat Marshall, at Marshall
Record during this stretch: 46-5-2
Nov/Dec record: 26-1-1
Playoff record over this span, 15-1, with the lone loss being 31-28 in the 92 Title game against Marshall.
93 and 94 teams were especially dominate in the playoffs. Every game was won by 10 or more points. YSU beat Marshall 17 - 5 in NC game at Marshall.... YSU scored on each of their first 3 possessions. Game was never really in doubt after that. None of these games were ever in doubt.
In 94, the only playoff game that was in doubt, was the rematch with EKU. The other 3 were won by 14 or more points, and YSU could have scored more on both Boise and Alcorn, had Tress wanted to run up the score.
Something else to remember, is that Tressel's style of coaching did not lend itself to a "wow" factor, especially in the regular season. The regular season was used to get the team ready for the playoffs. Not that Tress wanted to lose any games, but he knew 1 or 2 losses would not keep YSU out of the playoffs.
I was at all but 2 home games, and at several road games. Watched other road games on TV. YSU was dominate, and so was Marshall. YSU though was a just bit more dominant than Marshall in the playoffs during that stretch.
Man that NDSU defense is fun to watch. It has to be demoralizing if you are the opposing team. They don't let you score unless they allow it in garbage time. That 7 point UNH got was on a pick 6.
Love to watch that kind of defense.
They also ran "Dave" to the left side. Love that play.
NDSU is awesome! They totally controlled the game with Coastal Carolina who beat Montana last week. NDSU ran through, around and over them. Then passed when the runners needed a rest. Bohl's play calling was great and the team executed the plays well.
Brock Jensen had plenty of time to see his open receivers and connected. I don't believe the other FCS teams are at their level; they should win their 3rd straight championship.
We were probably at or near the top 24, which is why we missed the palyoffs. Totally disagree with Pizza's conspiracy victim viewpoint. We obviously were in the playoffs if we win just one more game; no need to win the conference but we must stop tanking every November.
Pizza,
I realize that the couch potatoes of the world think that the only sports that matter are the ones that they see on ESPN, but college sports is much more than that. The only people making money off college football are ESPN, the beer advertisers, maybe some of the Big Five conference schools, and I don't think all of them, and perhaps a smattering of others.
In some schools, especially small privates, the minor sports are seen as making money or at least breaking even: Their rosters are filled with partial and non-scholarship students who are contributing to the university by paying tuition and room and board, and they are drawing students to the university who otherwise might not consider attending there, especially when the student is from a high-income or upper middle-income family. Over the last decade schools have actually been adding lacrosse, crewing, and equestrian because these students tend to come from better-off families who will pay money to let their kids to continue in their sport. In addition, the minor sports tend to attract better students (after all, education is the reason universities exist in the first place), and these students don't create the campus disciplinary problems that come with the inflated egos of football players.
In the current budget crisis, some ADs mistakenly think that the solution is to dump the minor sports and divert the money from the minor sports to big-time spectator sports, but hardly anybody has made this work in football. It's like pouring a bucket of water on a house fire. This does sometimes work in basketball, because one basically needs only five good players and one or two good subs, and the equipment costs are much less. It's easy to lose sight of the impact of minor sports on school enrollment and finances because those metrics are not part of the athletic operating budgets, but if one looks at the big picture, it's rather astounding. (This is why small schools understand this more--these facts get lost in large universities.) Some of these FBS wannabes, if they keep going down their current path, will soon be left with nothing more than frisbee golf.
This is why I think Strollo is doing such a decent job. The minor sports are definitely bringing students to the university that otherwise wouldn't come to Youngstown, and many of the sports are now competitive among the mid-tier universities. Not sure if the break-even theory works at YSU because the tuition is low relative to its peers and the salaries for minor-sport coaches, as low as they are, are higher than low-tier schools.
More evidence that the second-tier FBS schools are losing the sports financial arms race: Temple is dropping seven sports. This is a downward spiral.
http://articles.philly.com/2013-12-08/news/44908784_1_temple-university-the-inquirer-american-athletic-conference