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Their coach is apparently as big of a dick as their star player

@PaulKampe  11m
About getting to return to campus tonight, @KampeOU says on radio: "I can't imagine five days in Youngstown (Ohio)." #HLMBB


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From following Coach Neal's Twitter account, pretty sure the team is busing to Charlotte - this is from yesterday afternoon

Have 35 players and a bus... Will travel!!

Imagine if we watch his timeline we will know what is going on.

https://twitter.com/jasonneal6

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Looking at weather radar and pictures from the Southeast (and flights everywhere being cancelled) it would appear that opening series in Charlotte is in jeopardy.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: MBB at Detroit
« on: February 11, 2014, 09:44:47 PM »
Wick, I agree 100%. I think it is great how much coverage high school sports gets in Ytown/Warren. When I lived in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, they were covered, but the pro teams came first, and in Pittsburgh then came Pitt. I now live in Las Vegas, and high school sports get very little coverage, and the support is nothing close to what high school sports gets in NE Ohio and SW Penn.

With that said, coverage of UNLV here is very good. Even the football team, which just had it's first winning season since 2000. And, it ought to be that way, as UNLV is a D1 college sports program, in a city with no professional sports teams.

I may get some flack from people, but I do not think the Vindicator has EVER given YSU the respect it deserves, with the possible exception of when Tress was coaching football. And, this goes for the ENTIRE paper. YSU is a solid school, and it is mind numbing to think what Ytown/Warren would be like without YSU. But, The Vindy seems to take pride and pleasure in tearing down YSU at any chance. I guess it plays into the mindset of many in the area that if something is in Ytown/Warren, then it must be inferior?

The tv and radio stations do not get a pass either. It has only been in recent times that YSU takes precendenc over OSU on 570WKBN. I understand OSU has a huge following all over Ohio, but it is sad when the hometown DI sports teams get put on the weaker radio stations. I may have rambled, and if I did I apologize. Just do not understand why The Vindicator does not have a special section in the online site specifically for YSU? Even if they had an intern do most of the work, at least ther would be a place to go to for indepth coverage of ALL sports at YSU.

Don't think you rambled, but even if you did no apology needed.  Everything you said is accurate.

For the Vindy to not send a beat writer on road games with YSU basketball is bad. 


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Inside Prep Sports has Biles as the #14 senior in Michigan

http://ipsbasketball.com/michigan_2014__winter_2014

6'2" 2014 shooting guard Ja'Christian Biles (Oak Park, MI./Dorian's Pride 17u) Explosive athlete who scores on three levels, still raw at some points but nothing that can't be corrected.  Continued to improve his perimeter and mid-range shooting year after year

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2014 Football Recruiting Master List
« on: February 05, 2014, 11:59:41 AM »
Thanks to all for the updates.  Sorry I wasn't able to keep the master updated the last few days.  Sometimes real life gets in the road.  :)

I am writing this shortly in advance of the Noon press conference.  The YSU site lists 22 signed LOIs as I write this.

Before the tweets from YSU this morning started, we had 18 of the 22 listed. 

0505 added Mosley, Squiric, Louigene and Lee today.

The names we had that are not on the list as of Noon:

John Linkosky - Jireh Prep

Nick Sheely - Fitch (although I saw a picture of him today in a YSU hat at school signing)

Tony Stephens - Fairfield, OH

Brandon Thomas - Tampa Robinson HS

Lasander Washington - Riverview FL

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An interesting story with the MAC lamenting how hard it is to hire a FCS coordinator as a MAC head coach - Chuck Martin took a $250k paycut to go from OC at Notre Dame to head coach at Miami

All of which says that whenever the time comes to replace Wolford, its not going to be with a FCS coordinator.  Heck at this rate a top FCS position coach may be out of YSU's price range.


http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/viewart/20140203/SPORTS/302030001/Gap-widening-between-MAC-power-conferences'

 The latest wave of football coaches to crash the Mid-American Conference consists of a man gone mad.

That’s how Miami’s Chuck Martin views his decision to take a $200,000 pay cut to be a head coach in major college football.

Martin, who served the past three seasons as Notre Dame’s offensive coordinator, wore golden handcuffs at the Golden Dome, aware he someday might have to accept lesser pay in order to run his own program.

He’s not alone. Rising salaries among assistant coaches is altering parameters of MAC coaching searches and requiring league athletic directors to — in sports parlance — “grab a lob wedge instead of swinging away with a driver.”

Only Martin qualifies as a splash among the MAC’s four offseason hires. Bowling Green and Eastern Michigan plucked unheralded, albeit successful, head coaches from the Championship Subdivision — the lower of two Division I tiers. Massachusetts hired a native son, bringing back unemployed NFL assistant Mark Whipple to lead a Minutemen program he guided to a I-AA national title in 1998.

Miami acquired Martin only after he agreed to forgo $650,000 at Notre Dame, a figure the Irish were willing to sweeten to coax him into staying. Martin, who received a five-year deal at Miami for $450,000 annually, said he wouldn’t have left “for just any MAC job” and was confident the infrastructure at Miami is sufficient to revitalize a program coming off a winless season.

“I think the (top schools])are trying to put you in a position that you can’t take these jobs, which makes sense; theyâre trying to keep their assets in house and eliminate as many possibilities for them moving in another direction,” Martin said. “There aren’t too many people crazy enough to do what I did.”

In 2010 there were 37 assistants on Division I coaching staffs who made at or above the average MAC head coach salary of roughly $358,000. In 2013 there were 86 assistants reaching the MAC average of $400,000, an increase of 135 percent in three years. Among them was former Western Michigan head coach Bill Cubit, who was fired by the Broncos after the 2012 season and earned an increase of more than $20,000 as Illinois’ offensive coordinator.

In 2010, Al Golden of then-MAC member Temple made a league-most $513,868, more than all but nine assistants. Three years later 38 assistants made more than the $513,900 Frank Solich pocketed at Ohio.

Also in 2010, the MAC’s Northern Illinois hired Dave Doeren, who was making $250,605 as Wisconsinâs defensive coordinator, and paid him $371,000. Three years later, Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Aranda made $480,000 — more than all but Solich among MAC head coaches.

With the new College Football Playoff set to deliver an influx of cash — most of which will be distributed among the five major conferences — the gulf separating the Michigans from the Eastern Michigans could widen.

Moreover, a movement to legalize stipends to athletes could weaken the MAC’s striking ability against the big boys. Ohio State, which spent $34 million on football in 2012, has coffers deep enough to pay both coaches and players. Toledo, which spent $22 million that same year across its entire athletic department, would be further disadvantaged.

“We’re certainly entering a new phase,” said Akron athletic director Tom Wistrcill said. “It has changed, and it’s going to continue to change because the money the top five conferences are able to put into their assistant coaches’ pools is just so much higher than ours. That allows coordinators to be making $500,000 to $600,000 on the low end.”

Three assistants made at least $1 million last season, exceeding the combined pay earned by Ohio’s Solich and Toledo’s Matt Campbell, whose $457,000 salary is second in the MAC.

Does anyone think offensive coordinator Chad Morris, making $1.3 million annually, would leave Clemson to coach, say, Buffalo?

There’s a residual effect to consider. By bringing in coaches from lower ranks, MAC schools can keep costs low. For example, new Bowling Green coach Dino Babers, who comes from Eastern Illinois, is making the same amount ($400,000) as the man he replaced, Dave Clawson.

“What’s troubling for me is we used to in the MAC, when we needed a coach, look at the 10 to 12 best coordinators out there,” said Wistrcill, who’s in his fifth year at Akron. “That was your starter pool.

“Now if you’re going to hire someone from there, your first thought is if we’re paying $400,000 and they’re making $800,000 they’re probably not coming.

“Two years from now, they’ll be making a million or two million as a coordinator, and we’ll still be paying $500,000 or something like that.”

Wistrcill said 10 years ago a successful coordinator at, say, Michigan State, might have progressed to Eastern Michigan’s head coaching position.

This offseason, Spartans defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi, a hot name in the wake of MSU’s 13-1 Big Ten title season, was not a player in EMU’s search. He later reportedly turned down the Connecticut job and is expected to earn a raise at MSU from his $512,500 salary.

“We’re wise enough in this business to recognize you don’t go after the very, very top because finances are so different,” said EMU athletic director Heather Lyke. “But also, it might not be what your institution needs.”

In place of rousing big-name hires, the MAC is getting proven head coaches at a bargain.

Lyke interviewed four lower division head coaches and one BCS coordinator before hiring Drake’s Chris Creighton, who never has suffered a losing season in 17 years as a head coach.

Bowling Green won a MAC title this year with Clawson, who spent his formative years turning around FCS programs before a one-season stop as Tennessee’s offensive coordinator. The Falcons went back to the FCS well with Babers, whose stock ascended after EIU captured a league title his first year after being picked to finish last in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Ball State won 10 games in 2013 with former Elon coach Pete Lembo. Wistrcill is pleased with his returns on Terry Bowden, recently awarding the former Auburn and Division II North Alabama head man a two-year extension.

Miami athletic director David Sayler said he conducted a study with the help of a search firm that showed half of coordinators the past 10 seasons fizzled as head coaches. In October, he fired former Michigan State offensive coordinator Don Treadwelll after the RedHawks started 0-5.

A few high-level coordinators inquired about the opening and withdrew once Sayler started talking pay. Martin, who won two Division II national titles as head coach at Division II Grand Valley State, was nutty enough to throw his name into the mix.

“What we talk about is if you come here and do the job we all think you’re going to do, you’ll triple that salary in four years,” Sayler said. “Some people aren’t willing to wait that long.”

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Local Football Recruiting!!!
« on: February 03, 2014, 01:46:29 PM »
Wick -yes it is. Wednesday.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2014 FB Schedule
« on: February 01, 2014, 02:30:15 PM »
Does anyone know how far in advance these schedules are made and the purpose of scheduling these seemingly week out of conference games?

Desire to have 6 or 7 home games and not having enough money to buy home games from teams from higher rated conferences.   YSU would not go on the road to an FCS team on a one year contract.   

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Local Football Recruiting!!!
« on: February 01, 2014, 02:20:47 PM »
Go - obviously I am not local and not hearing of where local kids are going.

If we are losing kids to other FCS teams, it is a concern.  Hard to outrecruit the MAC these days, although it would be nice to get a few.

Are we losing kids that we should be in on?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Track and Field teams?
« on: February 01, 2014, 02:18:39 PM »
First event rankings of the indoor season were published this week (before the Penn State meet)

Bobby Grace is 8th nationally in the shot put

Samantha Hamilton is 10th nationally in the 5000

http://www.ustfccca.org/assets/rankings/div1/2014-itf/DI_2014_indWk0_TF_TFRRSTop10.pdf

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Mens Basketball Game on ESPN3
« on: January 31, 2014, 04:04:01 PM »
Quick post on projected rankings - all the computers pick Oakland by small margins.

Pomeroy 83-80

Massey 82-79

Sagarin 1.5

My morning paper says Oakland by 3.

Dunkel says the Vegas line is Oakland by 2 1/2 and take YSU plus the points.




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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2014 FB Schedule
« on: January 30, 2014, 02:28:58 PM »
Lets_Talk - FCS does not have 12 games every year.  Only in those years where there are a certain number of Saturdays between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.  With Labor Day being September 1 this year and Thanksgiving being so late last yer, 2013 and 2014 are two of those year.

Pretty sure we go back to 11 in 2015.  Might be wrong and maybe it has changed.

I agree with your basic premise - just not sure that its possible to have the 6/6 split.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Minnesota QB Philip Nelson to transfer
« on: January 29, 2014, 03:19:56 PM »
Transferring to Rutgers per Bruce Feldman of CBS Sports.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 2014 Football Recruiting Master List
« on: January 29, 2014, 02:15:55 PM »
New complete master list with Rankin, Studdard and Williams added

Current totals by position:  ATH 3, QB 1, RB 3,OL 2 DE 2, LB 2, DB 4 Total 17.


ATH Jaylon Brown, St. Clairsville, OH, 5-7. 165 - http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8261.0.html

S  Shane Dixon, Palm Harbor, FL, IMG Academy, 6-4, 190 http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8534.0.html

LB Shane Kuhn, Vandegrift, PA Kiski Area HS, 6-4, 230 http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8546.0.html

RB Ryan Moore, York SC, 5-10, 200 http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8603.0.html

LB Nathan Pittman, 6-2, 225 Hagerty HS, Oviedo, FL http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/blogs/recruiting/os-nathan-pittman-of-hagerty-commits-to-youngstown-state-20130910,0,3387021.post

DE Adrian Rankin, Winton Woods HS, Cincinnati 6-3, 240 http://cincinnati.com/blogs/recruiting/2014/01/27/winton-woods-de-adrian-rankin-commits-to-youngstown-state/ 
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/2035838/highlights/111540391

OT Jeff Rotheram,  6-7 300 pound, North Olmstead https://twitter.com/jrotheram_/status/427548012483596288
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/496072/jeff-rotheram

RB Sidney Sandidge, 6-2, 198 Fork Union Academy VA  http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/690131/highlights/85242375

DE Tony Stephens, Fairfield, OH, 6-3, 250 http://cincinnati.com/blogs/recruiting/2014/01/18/fairfield-dl-tony-stephens-commits-to-youngstown-state/

DB Jacob Studdard, Southfield, MI 5-11, 170 http://Http://t.co/A7UKwHIYYY

S   Brandon Thomas, Tampa FL Robinson HS, 5-10, 170 - http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8602.0.html

ATH Derrick Thomas, Lakewood St Edward, 5-8, 165 http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8255.0.html

ATH Lasander Washington, Riverview, FL, 5-8, 150  http://www.hudl.com/athlete/o/962676/highlights/15400381

RB - Raekwon Washington, Shelby NC 6-2, 200 http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8540.0.html

QB Hunter Wells, Navarre, OH, Fairless HS, 6-5, 190 http://ysupenguins.com/forum/index.php/topic,8222.30.html

OG Dwayne Williams, Mulberry, FL HS,6-3,305 http://247sports.com/Player/Dwayne-Williams-23275
http://bigcountypreps.com/181/big-dwayne-williams-is-staying-positive-and-for-good-reason/

DB Kevin Wilson, Kathleen HS, Lakeland, FL, 6-2, 175
http://polkcountyfootball.com/?p=5913

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