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UIC was a top 60-65 RPI team, at least that's what I saw on Twitter, entering this week. To open up with 2 road wins is impressive. Keep the faith ladies! You CAN win this conference this year.
As Indy noted several days ago, this early in the season you should look more closely at road wins/home losses than at the overall standings. Right at this moment (I think) that would look like this:
+1 advantage: Cleveland State and Youngstown State
-1 disadvantage: Milwaukee and UIC
neutral: everybody else
Where' s JJ at now? Is he so depressed ysu lost that he jumped in the mahoning river?
Oh wait, he' s in slocums hotel room. So that's what those checks he cuts to the athletic department pays for.
SMH to this post! It leaves me little hope for humanity and makes me question if all the positive things I'm trying to do for the Valley/YSU are all for not because of people like this.
I-AA Fan - is there a block feature on this site? Or do I just have to ignore everything Ray says?
It's one thing to disagree with someone, but it's another thing to say people are going into the coaches hotel room after what happened at Penn State and Syracuse. It's disgusting and disturbing.
Michigan State has a dogsh*t football team, a Defensive End had more TDs then their entire team combined outside of him comming into today for Chris Sake, they are absoltuley god awful, they are worse then pitt from last year
OK JJ, you wanted my response so here it is. I find it amusing that a 34 year old fan could question my loyalty to the university. I just completed 40 years of perfect attendance at home football games. My streak at basketball would have extended back into the 1960s if adult responsibilities had not interfered on several occasions. Furthermore, I attend our Olympic sports regularly, even those sports that I don't like very much. Counting those Olympic sports, there is nobody that attends more YSU athletic events in a year than I do. Nobody.
Your problem is that you have a warped definition of loyalty. You equate it with being a cheerleader, supporting any policy from the leadership without question. There is a label for that in American sports; it is called being a Cub fan. You have evaded the central thesis of my original post: that YSU sports has become irrelevant in the community. True, loyal YSU fans are aware of this unwelcome condition. They have offered their remedies. Mine is the replacement of the entire management team. If you have a better idea, let's hear it. But denying that the crisis exists contributes nothing. The empty seats in the gym and in the stadium call for more than cheerleading.
What business experience do you have Wick? Because your theory of firing every decision makes, is widely agreed upon to be the dumbest business decision a person or organization could possibly make. It's literally one of the first lessons we learned in my M.B.A. program. So when you say things like this, it just makes you sound so stupid.
This notion that you keep saying that YSU sports is irrelevant is ridiculous as well. I have no idea what your status is, but judging by your comments on this board, (hopefully) you're not in decision making role with a large business. Now I am. I travel all throughout the United States for work, and do a good bit of business in the area. When I'm traveling, I get stopped by people all the times asking me about my YSU shirt I'm wearing at the airport etc. I can't tell you how many times people with no interest in YSU has asked about Kendrick Perry and if he's the "real deal".
The notion that no body cares in Youngstown is as ridiculous as the comment you made about overhauling everyone in management. I buy a lot of season tickets for basketball and own a suite for football. I get multiple requests weekly for football and basketball tickets.
Your problem is you sit on an island in Youngstown (or other community in the Valley) and never venture out. You think if you post 1,200 times on a message board and a person more delusional than you agrees with it, it's the gospel.
Now have fun at the YSU game tomorrow. I'm going to be in a suite at the Browns / Steelers game.
On TV, financially successful people are generally stereotyped as d-bags. IRL, in my experience, they are the kindest and most humble people I have ever met. I'm referring to people who are rich by rich people's standards.
When I see boastfulness and arrogance, I see ignorance and insecurity 100% of the time.
Becoming spiteful about about a differing opinion (especially regarding college sports) reveals immaturity.
We're almost a full 24 hours from the game and Dick250 is nowhere to be found
I find it very funny how people say Heacock was not a good head coach. Imagine if he were coach under a 24 team playoff system? Woulda made the playoffs in 01 (8-3) 02 (7-4) 05 (8-3) 07 (7-4)
Indy, all your points are true, but the same was said to justify the extension to Heacock. When do you just have to bite the bullet, admit Wolford was a big mistake, and move on? I don't know. I do know that interest in the program is now actually below the level it reached when Heacock was shown the door.
In other news:
@DanaBalash21: @21WFMJSports YSU Athletic Director Ron Strollo tells me expects Eric Wolford to be the head football coach for a "very long time."
If true, I take this to mean that reaching the playoffs is not as big a priority as we have been told. Many expenditures hard to justify if this is the case.
I wouldn't expect Strollo to say anything else with less than two months until signing day.
The real proof will be in the contract extension - how long and most importantly what are the buyout terms (which we probably will not know unless the media requests a copy).
If there is no contract extension, recruiting will likely be a disaster and there could be coaching defections as guys look for more stable spots. And good luck attracting capable replacements if a coach is in the last year of his contract.
