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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Women

« on: January 12, 2024, 10:15:07 AM »

Two years ago we tied for the regular season title with three impact players, Olson, Ritz, and Callahan. Last year with Olson graduated, the team collapsed down the stretch. This year without Olson, Ritz, and Callahan, the team is a league bottom-feeder. To put it bluntly, I don't think that there are more than three legitimate DI players on this roster.

And it will get worse next season. We are starting five seniors and the two freshmen who are dressed rarely play. I fear that this once proud program has no future.

As far as Barnes is concerned, I have heard nothing.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Wright St

« on: January 11, 2024, 11:09:32 PM »

The Fort Wayne game proved two things.  First, this team can play defense. Second, this team refuses to play defense for the entire game. CAN they give us 40 minutes of effort tomorrow? Yes. WILL they give us 40 minutes of effort tomorrow. I doubt it.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final

« on: January 11, 2024, 11:05:17 PM »

NCAA is done. Big 10 and SEC growth is ALL about leaving NCAA to go after seperate TV deal.  Without big school tv money those  arrogant bastards at NCAA are history. Probably s bad thing, but they've done such a bad job they deserve it

The first three words of your post are absolutely true. In the past the NCAA could at least theoretically control the perks that schools gave to athletes and identify under-the-table booster money. Now the NCAA has no control over perks (NIL) and money payouts are legal. How do you discipline cheaters when there are no rules?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final

« on: January 08, 2024, 09:38:16 PM »

Excellent research, Go. The transfer portal has already caused a great deal of chaos for all levels of college football. 2024 will be even more destructive as this will be the first season when wealthy programs can openly pay players under the new rules.

I wonder how many of the studs at NDSU would have stayed there for four or five years over the past decade if Big Ten programs were offering them 50-75K to defect and join them. Even the four comparatively wealthy FCS programs (NDSU, SDSU, Montana, Montana State)  are probably going to get outbid by the big boys for their blue chip talent. College football will be unrecognizable in two or three years and not for the better.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final

« on: January 07, 2024, 10:31:14 PM »

Most of the SDSU All-Americans or all-conference players have used up their eligibility. Also, the announcers today said that the stud running back is declaring for the NFL draft. And there is a rumor that the SDSU OC is heading to the big time and likely to take the quarterback with him. I don't mean to downplay the gap between them and us. It is formidable. But they will not be as dominant next season.

The "professionalization" of college sports might end up helping us more than it hurts us. We have seen the last of  the FCS super teams. Under the new rules, all of those SDSU stars would have been gobbled up by the P5 and paid much more than SDSU could handle. You will never again see legitimate pro prospects playing in the FCS as seniors; they will all be stolen and paid very well after one or two seasons at our level.

Our Penguin Collective NIL won't shield us from raids, but it will give us an advantage over 90% of FCS schools who have nothing.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ysu vs IUPUI

« on: January 06, 2024, 12:55:55 PM »

More insanity. The odds that casual fans will choose YSU hoops over the NFL is ZERO. Strollo should tell the Horizon League office that we are not playing basketball games on Sunday afternoons during the NFL season. If the league insists, tip-off the game at 8pm.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU VS NKU

« on: January 05, 2024, 04:01:51 PM »

YSU a basketball school... LOL

YSU a Womens bowling school 

A National Power and legitimate NCAA DI title contender women's bowling school! 

It would be nice if the basketball team played with the same drive and intensity on the court as our women display on the bowling lanes. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU VS NKU

« on: January 05, 2024, 09:14:51 AM »

Calhoun told us that this batch of transfers were good, and we believed him. It is obvious now that this is an average basketball team, 2-2 in conference and 6-5 overall against real opponents. These guys have some offensive skills, but they refuse to play defense for 40 minutes. The meltdowns in the second half of the Oakland game and now Northern Kentucky make that abundantly clear.

Last year was an aberration: a group of transfers focused on a goal bigger than themselves and playing hard to attain that goal. There is no sign of such cohesion and unity within this bunch.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguins Announce December Signees

« on: December 26, 2023, 04:34:56 PM »

I don't understand the hostility between football-centric and basketball-centric YSU fans. Just enjoy that both teams are now successful, and the women gave us a decade of quality before that program collapsed this season.

On the matter of being a basketball school and basketball gaining national notoriety, Calhoun is not building the foundation for long-term dominance. By bringing in a batch of senior/grad student transfers each year, he is striving to advance to the big time. When he leaves, probably after this season, he will take Lovelace and the 7-footer with him. The next coach will barely have enough bodies to place a team on the court. That is not something that happens at a basketball school.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguins Announce December Signees

« on: December 23, 2023, 02:50:32 PM »

Immediate help will come from the transfers, not these young kids. If internet postings are accurate, we have several new faces for the secondary within the transfer group. Here is the big question: Does it really matter who we recruit on defense if we are stuck with the same defensive coaching staff?

Good point Wick. If we don’t improve on the defensive scheme next year, I don’t think any recruits will make any difference.

I don’t think our secondary talents were as bad as the statistics had shown. IMO, instead, they were actually the victims of a poor defensive scheme. In my past posting, I kept going back to the game that we tried to cover the best receiver in the MVFC with single coverage the entice game. Our poor cornerback kept getting burned over and over and the receiver had a career day. The secondary was made even more vulnerable by our inability to put pressure on the opposing QB.

I don’t think Brungard will be our future QB. This has nothing to do with his talent, I am just trouble believing that if he is, why would us not let him try to throw the ball? Oh, worse than that, we were having him return punts while he was the backup QB in the game.

On another hand, we are supposed to be a football college and yet, currently, our MBB is almost ranked in the top 100 in D1. I don’t think our football team is anywhere closed to be ranked in the top 100 nationwide.


Go penguins.

For the record, as of December 9 in the Sagarin Ratings, YSU is #123. We are #10 in FCS. We are rated higher than six MAC schools. Kent State is rated the worst FBS team in the country; Akron fifth from the bottom. SDSU is #28 (probably higher now after their semi-final win.)

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Football Recruiting Updates and Transfer Portal

« on: December 23, 2023, 11:32:40 AM »

What isn't a project on the roster?  There are dozens of local players that have no business suiting up for YSU.

We usually have between 90 and 100 players on the roster in the spring. A significant portion of those are walk-ons. If you look at the  players that actually got on the field this fall, very few were locals. And I suspect that very few full scholarships are awarded to local players, with the exception of key figures such as Brungard.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguins Announce December Signees

« on: December 23, 2023, 11:23:57 AM »

Immediate help will come from the transfers, not these young kids. If internet postings are accurate, we have several new faces for the secondary within the transfer group. Here is the big question: Does it really matter who we recruit on defense if we are stuck with the same defensive coaching staff?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Now that you know the final 4 teams where are we in the top 25?

« on: December 17, 2023, 05:33:34 PM »

We might be as high as 8 or as low as 12. And after SDSU smashes Montana in the championship game, it will be obvious that we lost in the playoffs to the second best FCS team.

I watched about 10 minutes of the Ohio (9-3) and Georgia Southern (6-6) minor bowl game on Saturday. The announcers kept stressing the number of Ohio players that were absent because they had already entered the portal. They concluded that these minor bowl games were good because they give young players a chance to display their talents to the coaching staff. OK, fine. The goal of a G5 football season is to play in a meaningless bowl game without starters who have already transferred. Compare that nonsense to the intensity of the NDSU-Montana State, Montana-Furman, and NDSU-Montana playoff games.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NCAA Playoffs Week 2: YSU at Villanova Saturday 12/2 at 12pm

« on: December 16, 2023, 12:17:31 PM »

I just looked up the Albany-Villanova game. Villanova had five turnovers; Albany had none.

As others have noted, Villanova is the only CAA team that has the size and strength up front to compete in the MVFC. With James Madison and Delaware now gone, the CAA has become Villanova and the (fill-in the blank) dwarfs.

The CAA joins the Southern Conference, once the home of multiple championship teams Georgia Southern, Marshall, and Appalachian State, as a second rate FCS conference.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NCAA Playoffs Week 2: YSU at Villanova Saturday 12/2 at 12pm

« on: December 15, 2023, 04:13:37 PM »

This topic deserves its own thread. Potesta is an embarrassment to the university every time he gets behind a microphone. One cliche after another, and no insight whatsoever into the game of basketball. I wonder if WKBN imposed this character on us. If you need a second person on the broadcast, which is debatable, use a kid from our sports broadcasting program.