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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Men's 22-23 basketball schedule

« on: September 15, 2022, 05:23:56 PM »

Guys, this is not baseball where you can somewhat automatically end up with a good team if individuals do their jobs.  To state the obvious, team chemistry is vital in basketball.  We have no idea if the newcomers and the returners can mesh together into a cohesive unit. It will be great if we finally have a very good men's team. But I would caution you to temper your enthusiasm until we see the product on the court.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Football: Kentucky Week

« on: September 13, 2022, 06:51:33 PM »

Collect the paycheck and a beat down and leave healthy hopefully lol.

Perfectly stated in a single sentence.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Still bugs me

« on: September 11, 2022, 12:49:47 PM »

Once the P5 expands their playoffs to 12, the G5 will become even more irrelevant than it is today. The P5 might grant one or even two spots in the field to G5 teams, but that will be the equivalent of allowing the NEC and the Pioneer League to "participate" in the FCS playoffs.  Basically a joke.

No, we are a mid-major athletic program.  We are doing things right.  The entire MAC spends millions of student money for respect that nobody will ever give them. How many casual fans of "big time" college sports could differentiate between a Ball State and an Illinois State?  I suspect that answer is less than 5%.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Football: Dayton Week

« on: September 10, 2022, 11:41:44 PM »

Many of us have our doubts about Crenshaw's passing abilities.  But let's be fair.  Several of those touchdown passes in the first half were outstanding throws.  Who would have thought this morning that Crenshaw would now share the record for td passes in a single game.

Yes, the lack of discipline is frustrating and infuriating. I don't envy the coaches as they try to fix this.  One problem is the junk football culture that the NFL promotes on Sundays which college and high school kids want to copy. Everything demands some type of demonstration and hits after the whistle are sometimes ignored.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Football: Dayton Week

« on: September 06, 2022, 01:07:11 PM »

On September 18, 2021 in Carbondale: Southern Illinois 55  Dayton 3

On November 20, 2021 in Carbondale:  YSU 35  Southern Illinois 18

Placing emphasis upon results from common opponents is often not wise. However....

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Duquesne GameDay Thread

« on: September 03, 2022, 10:59:40 PM »

I am trying to view this performance with some perspective, but it is very hard to do so. The less said about the game's first two minutes the better. And the third quarter was terrible. Poor effort coming out of the locker room.  It was last year's Western Illinois debacle revisited. But we did get our act together for the fourth quarter.

Besides the short td run, how many running plays did the coaches call for Crenshaw?  If he is not a dual threat qb with 10-15 called runs per game, he is basically worthless.  I almost had the impression that the coaches did indeed use this game as a training session. It seemed like they told him to stay in the pocket and never run.

We also yielded 7 out of 16 third down conversions to a NEC team.  I guess that happens when the pass rush is nonexistent.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Akron - Saint Francis Game

« on: September 01, 2022, 09:51:38 PM »

Akron won in overtime over a middle of the pack NEC team!  St. Francis inexplicably threw a bad interception on 2nd and goal from the three in overtime.  Akron stinks. However, this should serve as another wake-up call for YSU.  St. Francis beat Duquesne last season, although the Dukes played that game without their quarterback.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Duquesne Week

« on: August 29, 2022, 06:58:24 PM »

Last season Duquesne was crushed by TCU in their opener, then went to Athens the next week and took down Ohio University.  I'm sure that our coaches have made that point abundantly clear to our team.

This is the third season for the new regime. I expect substantial progress on the defensive side of the ball through the addition of several transfers and the maturation of our young players. If the O-line has improved, admittedly a big if, we should have a dynamic offense with our skilled athletes.

Saturday will either be the first signs of a renaissance for YSU football, or it will be proof that we made a mistake with our coaching hire.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU football starts Fall camp

« on: August 27, 2022, 03:12:21 PM »

I had very similar thoughts when I read the article.  "A bunch of nothing!". I wish I had those 2 minutes of my life back:).

It actually makes the coaches look stupid.  Just don't f***ing interview if you don't want to give information.  Better yet, provide the talking points you want to make.  Ensure that they are significant, relevant, contain the depth, breadth, precision and some accuracy to grab excitement from the fanbase.  This is just awful.

DP does a good job letting us know where he wants to go in terms of the talent and execution using coach speak.  This interview has some levels of retardation in it.

The new YSU beat writer is an outsider (nothing wrong about that) who seems to be basketball-oriented and displays little knowledge about football (that is the big problem.) He probably asks stupid, trite questions because he lacks the depth to probe any deeper.  I agree that this is tough to take and insulting.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU football starts Fall camp

« on: August 21, 2022, 11:31:44 AM »

Good to see that Crenshaw completed 16 out of 18 passes.  If he evolves into a true dual-threat quarterback, this season could get really interesting.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / MVFC 2023 and 2024 Schedules

« on: August 15, 2022, 01:08:30 PM »

League schedules for the next two seasons are now posted on the YSU athletics main page. As expected, the league stayed with an eight game schedule.  In the next rotation we are missing Western Illinois, North Dakota, and North Dakota State.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2022 Football Roster

« on: August 01, 2022, 02:19:47 PM »

There are 21 offensive linemen listed on the roster.  Will we find five that can play together as a cohesive unit? 

Also, there are 126 players listed on that roster. Seems to me to be an all-time high. Isn't there a limit in DI to the number of walk-ons a school could accept for fall camp?  I guess not.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU football - game discussions

« on: July 27, 2022, 12:44:40 PM »

The Duquesne game makes me very anxious.

When Duquesne beat Ohio last season, it was the Bobcats version of our "Butler fiasco."  Later in the year, Duquense lost to Sacred Heart and Saint Francis. They don't have enough talent to beat us; we can most assuredly beat ourselves.

Our coaches are recruiting much better than the lazy Pelini.  We are coming off this staff's first legitimate full off-season in the weight room. If the strength training has improved it should remedy our deficiencies on both lines.  I think that we have the skilled athletes to be pretty good.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2022-23 Men’s Basketball Schedule

« on: July 23, 2022, 01:06:20 PM »

     Agree in part.

     The Penguins brought in four older D1 players.  The incoming players replaced four transferees who stepped down to D2 and D3 programs (Chicone, Ogoro, Long and Vargo).  The departed players should never have been at YSU in the first place, but that is another story.  The newcomers' age and experience as D1 players should make the Penguins better.

     Will the incoming players elevate the program to contender status?  Bryce McBride was a part-time starter at Eastern Michigan (9-21, Sagarin rank 299 of 358).  Brandon Rush was a starter at Fairleigh Dickinson (4-22, Sagarin rank 349 of 358).  Malek Green was a sixth man at Canisius (10-21, Sagarin rank 264 of 358).  Adrian Nelson was a part-time starter at Northern Kentucky (18-12, Sagarin rank 194).  Outside of Nelson these players are unaccustomed to winning.  Two came from dreadful programs.  How these four translate to making YSU a contender may be more hope than reasonable projection.   

     Mattia Acunzo (Toledo, through Robert Morris) and the return of a healthy Garrett Covington could increase the possibility of success.     

Excellent points. We have been fooled too many times. We are all ready to embrace a good team but let's actually see it first.

I am still concerned that Calhoun's recent freshmen recruits are vastly inferior to his first two batches.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2022-23 Men’s Basketball Schedule

« on: July 23, 2022, 01:01:09 PM »

So YSU will be paid $85k to play at Notre Dame then give Southern University $70k to play at Beeghly Center.  That makes no sense wonder if payout is accurate? Maybe there's another big game with a large payout to be announced.

Yes. I have trouble believing YSU would pay $70k for that game. We probably averaged less than 2k paying fan at the home game. Mathematically, it would not generate $70k unless some sponsors or TV contract kick in $$$.

Most likely the Tribune/Vindicator writer accidentally typed an additional zero. $7000 would sound about right for a mid-major opponent.  If this figure is accurate, it is a terrible waste of resources.