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YSU Penguin Athletics / Bowling in Final Four

« on: April 06, 2024, 10:16:38 PM »

LANSING, Mi. (WKBN) – The Youngstown State bowling team is headed to the NCAA Final Four after beating Nebraska to advance out of the Lansing Region of the bracket.

The #3 overall seed YSU started off the weekend by taking down Marian (WI) and Maryville (MO) on Friday before topping the Cornhuskers to claim the regional title.

Next, they advance to the 2024 NCAA National Collegiate Women’s Bowling Championship rounds on April 12-13 at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Michigan.

The Finals consist of a 4-team double-elimination mega-match format and a best-of-seven Baker Match Championship Final.

They will be joined by three other teams from Conference USA in the Final Four with Jacksonville State, Sam Houston State and Arkansas State all winning their regionals as well.

With the regional championship, YSU bowling continues its record-breaking campaign after putting together the best regular season in program history.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: April 03, 2024, 08:29:52 PM »

interesting, ploy for more money or really wants to leave?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: April 01, 2024, 06:31:07 PM »

Did the women get a transfer from Cleveland State?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Beeghly facilities upgrade

« on: March 31, 2024, 08:26:02 PM »

Well there are still 114,000 alumni that did not sign onto such a drastic (in my opinion) measure. Regardless of who is President or who is on the Board, the support for this great University from the Mahoning Valley and our Alumni base must continue. We should be proud YSU boasts the largest endowment of the four state colleges in Northeast Ohio, despite having the least number of lifetime alumni among those institutions.

Also, it has been reported in multiple news articles that this endeavor to renovate Beeghly is 100% being funded by outside donors. Kudos to Coach Calhoun for leaving a lasting mark on Youngstown State University!

Nice post

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Beeghly facilities upgrade

« on: March 30, 2024, 09:39:32 AM »

Only logical thing to do is move forward, be aggressive, have better facilities, get a better coach ( not saying he was not good ) raise more nil money.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Report: Coach to Utah State?

« on: March 30, 2024, 07:39:03 AM »

Good bye, good luck, have a nice life!

Unless Strollo pulls off a minor miracle, a lot of those new seats may be empty for a while

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: March 28, 2024, 07:17:18 PM »

Here is a quote from the Oakland coach.

"He's going to get offered so much money and I can't [match that]. We've got a 'Keep Trey Townsend Fund' going from our [NIL] collective, and we might be able to get $40-50,000 in there, but he's looking at $250-300,000 from what I'm being told. So, it's going to be hard for me to tell him to stay."

I'm sorry but i'm not clear of who Kampe is talking about ?

Trey Townsend  forward

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: March 28, 2024, 07:43:27 AM »

Here is a quote from the Oakland coach.

"He's going to get offered so much money and I can't [match that]. We've got a 'Keep Trey Townsend Fund' going from our [NIL] collective, and we might be able to get $40-50,000 in there, but he's looking at $250-300,000 from what I'm being told. So, it's going to be hard for me to tell him to stay."

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: March 27, 2024, 02:20:37 PM »

I like having a little coin in my pocket as much as the next guy but this obsession with money the players, coaches and just people in general have, is out of control.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Coach too Duquesne??

« on: March 26, 2024, 09:08:34 AM »

Have to wonder if this was another reason why YSU wasn't interested in a post season tourney, and possibly why Lovelace & Burns are in the portal. 

Was thinking the same thing.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Coach too Duquesne??

« on: March 26, 2024, 07:41:07 AM »

How much more is that than what coach makes now?  just wondering!  I still think he gets another oppotunity with a major program!

He makes $300,000 base salary through  the 2027-2028 season, but there are a lot of bonuses in there.  Here's the contract https://ogden_images.s3.amazonaws.com/www.vindy.com/images/2023/03/31094720/J.-Calhoun-Contract.pdf

Call me old fashion, I don’t understand this. If he just signed the contract extension till 2028, what was he doing to interview for another mid major program already.

When Tressel signed his contract, he had an escape cause for Big 10 (specifically Ohio State). He incited at the time, if  he didn’t get the OSU job after interviewing, he would stay at YSU.

I agree, guess I am out of touch also. How can you expect the players to be committed when the coach is not.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Coach too Duquesne??

« on: March 24, 2024, 04:48:39 PM »

SamuraiHoops on Twitter:
"Youngstown St HC Jerrod Calhoun has INTERVIEWED at Southern Illinois…per Samurai Sources #StayTuned"

He needs to be recruiting not interviewing.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: March 21, 2024, 10:01:16 PM »

Believe it or not, Oakland U. Just took down Kentucky.

Sorry to hear that.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: March 19, 2024, 06:46:53 PM »

for years the complaint was that it was not fair to the athletes that they got nothing but free room and board and a degree, while the school would get all the money. To some degree that was a fair statement, but as often happens in this country anymore in our never-ending quest for fairness to all we have screwed it up bigtime. Not sure that they can get the horses back in the barn.

College sports has lost its innocence and a lot of its appeal.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Coaches/Portal

« on: March 19, 2024, 04:12:18 PM »

"It's a new reality in college basketball and we all need to get used to any decent player that develops at YSU will look to the open market when the season concludes."

Money is ruining college sports, change is not always for the better.