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YSU Penguin Athletics / Coaches radio show

« on: February 23, 2015, 07:24:22 PM »

The crosstalk on the WKBN site is horrible. You can't even listen to Robb and the coaches.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon league tournament

« on: March 07, 2014, 07:52:11 AM »

Popsicle:

If you would have watched the game ...you would have seen how upset Weber was & Slocum patted him on the back and sent him back out. CLEARLY he had no intention of making the shot; at least the second. Now maybe he thought that if he made the first, he would try to make the second (getting a 3-point lead) ...I don't know and would not agree with such a strategy. In either case he wanted to miss the second shot & Slocum is aware of this. Now was I listening ...no, but let's assume there was some strategy involved.

I was at the game and clearly you are mistaken. Weber was upset that he did not hit both shots and was never intending nor told to miss either shot.

I am sure their strategy was to have as much gap as possible no matter how much time was on the clock.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU vs Cleveland State

« on: February 25, 2014, 10:56:54 AM »

Will be a game time decision for Lee, Grady and Douglas. Even if they play, none of them will likely be at 100%. Hate to see illness or injury impact a game, but it is part of sports. YSU had still best have their "A" game, and be prepared to face a CSU team that is hungry for revenge, and also trying to make a push to be the #2 seed in HL Tournament, and help their possibility of playing in the NIT, should CSU not win the HL Tournament.

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2014/02/cleveland_state_not_100_percen.html#incart_river

Nobody in the league felt sorry for us having Weber out and were glad to get their wins. Likewise Green Bay only lost with a less than healthy Alec Brown. We are the only team that has beaten cleveland State when they were full strength. Go Guins!!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: GB Game

« on: February 12, 2014, 10:18:33 PM »

Over or under 500 people in attendance for tomorrow's game.....

If not over then Youngstown doesn't need or deserve a D1 basketball program.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Mens Basketball Game on ESPN3

« on: February 01, 2014, 12:53:56 PM »

The HL is down this year. A lot of bad teams. despite this, ysu is only in sixth place. YSU is just not a good team. The program is not a good program. Lets call it for what it is. Some people get made and say it's negativity. It's reality. I am not going to pick on coaches, players or the athletic department. They all do the best they can.  Could we have better coaches, better players and better personnel in our athletic department? Perhaps. But at the end of the day they all do the best they can.

I disagree with you saying we are not a good team. We absolutely have as much talent on this team as any other team in the conference and better than many others in other conferences. The problem is making stupid decisions with the ball and getting away from what we are most successful doing. Extra passes, sharing the ball, hitting open shots and not throwing away the ball. Plain and simple, we did this in the first half and didnt in the second half. We have the talent to beat a team like Oakland by 20 points. We seem to get outplayed and outcoached in the second half alot. That does not mean we are not a good team, we just have to get better down the stretch.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Mens Basketball Game on ESPN3

« on: January 31, 2014, 09:12:53 PM »

Positives : Weber and Hain played really well. Belin also was good offensively.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / !!!

« on: January 31, 2014, 09:11:14 PM »

Shoulda....woulda!

That was the worst play call ever when you only need a 2 pointer or a trip to the line to tie or win. Stupid!!!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball vs. Valpo

« on: January 27, 2014, 08:54:47 PM »

Wonderball, just curious in what poll EKU is ranked?

They are NOT in the AP or Coach's Top 25

Here is a link to College Insider, Mid-Major Top 25, and no EKU... GB is 4th.... EKU is getting 33 votes, which put them at 30th, but that is NOT ranked

Here are other YSU opponents receiving votes: KENT(22 votes), CSU(11 votes), WSU(7 votes),
http://www.collegeinsider.com/mens-mid-major-top-25.php

My post was over the weekend and Eastern Kentucky was absolutely in the Mid Major top 25 until they lost over the weekend to Belmont. The new poll today has them out of the poll and if you notice there are alot of NR teams that moved up because of wins. the point of the post was that they are a very good team who is doing well in their conference and we beat them. 

Here is the Mid-Major Madness Top 15 poll, and again, no EKU.... GB is 8th ..UMASS is 3rd
http://www.midmajormadness.com/2014/1/27/5350412/mid-major-madness-power-15-richmond-crawls-into-the-poll

The post I placed was over the weekend and EKU was absolutely in the Mid Major top 25 last week. the poll was updated today and they lost over the weekend to Belmont. The point was they are a very good team who is doing well in their conference, could make the NCAA and we beat them.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball vs. Valpo

« on: January 26, 2014, 03:15:22 PM »

Cleve. St. beat Valpo today , 69-50.  Watch Alpo move down in the standings.

BTW, Austin Peay is now 8-12 and UMKC is 6-12. Kennesaw St. 4-18  Warren Wilson 10-10. Thiel 6-9. Westminster 3-14.  Bethune -Cookman 2-19. Just keeping you updated

Easetern Kentucky is 14-7 and ranked, just to keep YOU updated.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball vs. Valpo

« on: January 24, 2014, 06:16:28 AM »

Oops.  They didn't play well and Alpo got a win with many of their players in big foul trouble.  This is not a good team.

There you come again, only posting when we lose. Where were you the last three wins. Go away and wait for football.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Cleveland State Game

« on: January 15, 2014, 06:53:39 AM »

Sorry I didn't see anything about CSU that was so good that DJ., Kam or Ryan couldn't play for them.

Good thing we have KP

I agree wholeheartedly, but you all act like he is out there by himself. He is not and there are 4 people on the other team as well that he isnt guarding. KP wants the ball and his teammates know that and give it to him anytime they can. He has a green light to do whatever he wants. Every player including some of the starters do not have that because they are young. Give credit, but don't discredit the rest of the team.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Cleveland State Game

« on: January 14, 2014, 08:43:34 PM »

Sorry I didn't see anything about CSU that was so good that DJ., Kam or Ryan couldn't play for them.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball at UWM

« on: January 03, 2014, 11:26:30 AM »

Correction, Coach Slocum said they sucked in that game. He did not say his teams sucks. You are making yourself look like an idiot with your posts.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball at UWM

« on: January 03, 2014, 10:04:42 AM »

Here's my take on the game. We were tasked with defending a team with 2 inside guys. Guess what? Neither of them shot their average for the game. What we gave up for that effort was wide open threes from the perimeter which is why their guards scored half of their overall points. the perimeter defense was not good on Aaron and McWhorter. Who was guarding them? We need better defense from KP and Cole honestly.  We also did not get any benefit from the refs and the ticky tack fouls they called on us and not on them were a portion of the difference. We were outrebounded. Look at the stats. We need more rebounding from our big guys period!  I have seen this team every game this season in person or on video and they have been terrific at times and struggled others. This is not uncommon for any team. Hey Kamren had a rough shooting night, Weber shot lights out. They should have given him the ball more   Honestly this is a team we could have beaten if we had been more consistent shooting. Keep working Penguins! This team has alot of talent they just dont always make good decisions. That is something the coaches have to continue to work on.  There are some of us out here who are behind you and supporting you!!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU vs St. John's on Fox Sports 1 today at 2PM

« on: December 21, 2013, 04:52:06 PM »

You would prefer they all foul out. They were calling it pretty tight and St. Johns didnt play defense either to give up 87 points. We had plenty of foul trouble to deal with in the second half and we are not as deep as St. John's is. KP had trouble because they were keying on him as all other teams will do. In our league he will be able to do alot more against them than he can a team that is long and athletic like this one.

We were short handed without Kam and our depth is very young. I was actually proud of them and thought they never gave up. We have some great pieces to our team so it is going to be exciting to see what they can do with Horizon League teams. As the announcers said today, the teams in our league won't want to see us coming. They were FAR from embarrasing. Losing by 9 to a Big East school is nothing to be ashamed of.