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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: EKU Football

« on: March 22, 2015, 11:48:21 PM »

He left for Ball State which is not much of an upgrade in my opinion the president of the university wanted the change to bring in his personnel. They recently hired an assistant head football coach and are in the process of hiring an athletic director. Coach Hood is in the final year of his contract and was told that they would not give him an extension

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: EKU Football

« on: March 21, 2015, 12:56:55 AM »

I posted a while back that EKU was upgrading their stadium. EKU is now in the planning and design stage to build a new stadium. They are also hiring a new AD and have hired 2 assistant coaches. They are also going to build 3 new dorms a new student center a wellness and fitness center and baseball stadium and softball stadium this is in addition to the 5 million dollar upgrade they have already made to the basketball arena. The student population is growing and is now around 16000

Thank you for the update.  Here at YSU, we are told that despite the meltdown of a FB on his watch, crazy contract extensions for inept coachs, and a woeful MBB program, we have a good AD because of facility upgrades.

Sounds like the EKU AD must be a superhuman.
Not the AD but the president is the one behind the upgrades He is all about athletics. He is the one that would not renew the football coaches contract but gave the mens bb coach a 3 year contract extension which was deserved

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YSU Penguin Athletics / EKU Football

« on: March 19, 2015, 11:30:39 AM »

I posted a while back that EKU was upgrading their stadium. EKU is now in the planning and design stage to build a new stadium. They are also hiring a new AD and have hired 2 assistant coaches. They are also going to build 3 new dorms a new student center a wellness and fitness center and baseball stadium and softball stadium this is in addition to the 5 million dollar upgrade they have already made to the basketball arena. The student population is growing and is now around 16000

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: EKU Football

« on: February 09, 2015, 11:48:39 PM »

they have 16 starters returning 8 offense 8 defense they have 4 gray shirts coming in that they expect to play.
They only signed 13 players this signing period and 3 or 4 of those are going to be gray shirts

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: EKU Football

« on: February 09, 2015, 10:48:57 AM »

EKU also got a transfer from Kansas State who was the 3 best linebacker in the country coming out of juco D'vonta Derricott

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: EKU Football

« on: February 09, 2015, 10:44:06 AM »

Coach Meyer called Dean Hood and asked him if he would be interested in taking Noah Spence

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: EKU Football

« on: February 09, 2015, 12:25:14 AM »

Not sure but I think around 30,000

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YSU Penguin Athletics / EKU Football

« on: February 08, 2015, 05:41:35 PM »

I had posted on here earlier about EKU doing an upgrade on their football stadium it appears now that they are in the planning stage to build a brand new facility. The east side will start this spring and when it is complete the plan is to demolish the current home side and build a new facility

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: ISUr vs NDSU in MVFC Championship Game ( also fcs championship as well)

« on: December 21, 2014, 12:45:34 PM »

EKU had a couple of games this year with the attendance of 16,000 The playoff game was played when the students were on break and the weather was terrible. they are averaging around 10 to 12,000. Also coach Hood wanted a contract extension but was told no.

Are these numbers butts in the seats or tickets sold? If butts in the seats, and I hope so. I am impressed. We were selling those many tickets but nowhere near that many came .

   Those were actual butts in the seats

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: ISUr vs NDSU in MVFC Championship Game ( also fcs championship as well)

« on: December 21, 2014, 10:06:07 AM »

EKU had a couple of games this year with the attendance of 16,000 The playoff game was played when the students were on break and the weather was terrible. they are averaging around 10 to 12,000. Also coach Hood wanted a contract extension but was told no.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: ISUr and NDSU in final 4

« on: December 14, 2014, 02:51:41 PM »

EKU is starting the football stadium renovations soon they spent 5 million on the basketball coliseum and are going to spend 15 million on the football stadium to increase capacity to 28,000. They are planning to move up to FBS around 2017 I think