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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Youngstown Football 2024 Report card. Tired of excuses! What needs to be done!
« on: November 19, 2024, 05:07:44 PM »
Alot of good points:
My 2 cents:
1) D needs to improve a lot. We need to hold teams below 21 to give our offense a chance. We need to eliminate big plays. I said this after last year to one of our new safety's who didn't play due to being hurt. We obviously did terrible at this. I will say I believe we improved from week one to week 12 but still not close to where we need to be. On 3rd and 10 we should almost never allow a first down.
2) offense needs to backfill the linemen we are losing and rb's however I believe we have some talent there already that we can develop. I'm looking forward to seeing Gardner from Niles. I heard he was really good. We also need at least 2 more receivers with one being a speedster.
3) As far as a coaching change it would be great to have a more experienced d coordinator if there is one available however in fairness to our staff this year with all the turnover on d it was clearly difficult. Not sure what I would do if it was my call although I can say this. I do not support rebuilding just to rebuild.
4) transfer portal- let's see if the team is stabilized and we don't lose players like last year. Did we lose players because our coordinator left. I don't know however we can't continue to lose players we have developed and improve. This is one of the most important keys in my mind.
5) QB i think we will be fine. Coaches should help brungard be more of a pass first QB and speed up his reads slightly. If he continues to improve he will be an asset. Not many qb's as athletic as him.
My 2 cents:
1) D needs to improve a lot. We need to hold teams below 21 to give our offense a chance. We need to eliminate big plays. I said this after last year to one of our new safety's who didn't play due to being hurt. We obviously did terrible at this. I will say I believe we improved from week one to week 12 but still not close to where we need to be. On 3rd and 10 we should almost never allow a first down.
2) offense needs to backfill the linemen we are losing and rb's however I believe we have some talent there already that we can develop. I'm looking forward to seeing Gardner from Niles. I heard he was really good. We also need at least 2 more receivers with one being a speedster.
3) As far as a coaching change it would be great to have a more experienced d coordinator if there is one available however in fairness to our staff this year with all the turnover on d it was clearly difficult. Not sure what I would do if it was my call although I can say this. I do not support rebuilding just to rebuild.
4) transfer portal- let's see if the team is stabilized and we don't lose players like last year. Did we lose players because our coordinator left. I don't know however we can't continue to lose players we have developed and improve. This is one of the most important keys in my mind.
5) QB i think we will be fine. Coaches should help brungard be more of a pass first QB and speed up his reads slightly. If he continues to improve he will be an asset. Not many qb's as athletic as him.