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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Predictions?

« on: November 12, 2011, 01:45:57 PM »

Okay Guin fans. Biggest weekend of the year to be a Penguin lover!

Second biggest FB game of the year against the Bison (still looking for free internet video for us).
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Looks like there may be one here: http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/17214/1/youngstown-state-vs-north-dakota-state.html

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: We're not ranked again

« on: October 31, 2011, 09:51:10 PM »

2011 FCS Now Poll
Week Nine
(First-place votes in parentheses)
 
1. North Dakota State (43)
2. Montana State ( 16 )
3. Sam Houston State ( 8 )
4. Appalachian State ( 8 )
5. Georgia Southern
6. Maine
7. Northern Iowa
8. Wofford
9. Montana
10. Lehigh
11. New Hampshire
12. Towson
13. Old Dominion
14. James Madison
15. Cal Poly
16. Illinois State
17. Liberty
18. Jackson State
19. Delaware
20. Indiana State
21. Central Arkansas
22. Massachusetts
23. Norfolk State
24. Alabama A&M
25. Youngstown State

Others receiving votes:
Alabama State; Tennessee Tech; Portland State; North Dakota; William & Mary; Albany; Harvard; Samford; Furman; Jacksonville State; Brown; South Dakota; Duquesne; Stony Brook.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: New Board Look

« on: June 26, 2011, 09:17:26 PM »

Looking good so far...

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Pre-Season Polls

« on: June 11, 2011, 01:59:16 PM »

... confirm that Boatwright's hamstring injury is at least season-ending ...probably career.

Sorry to see that happen to a good kid, hope he makes it back.

As for polls, always enjoyed proving them wrong.

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Non YSU Sports / Re: Pryor gone

« on: June 07, 2011, 09:17:11 PM »

I figured when he showed up in yet another brand new car for the mandatory team meeting with the new coach the other day that he had made his mind up and was just thumbing his nose at the press.

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General BS / Re: Facebook?

« on: April 23, 2011, 09:30:49 AM »

I've been on Facebook for about four years....

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The devoted ...YSU Sping Game

« on: April 16, 2011, 10:43:34 PM »

Again, I only stayed for the half ...so what else did I miss?

Another 1/2 inch of rain....the Ice Castle looked more like Niagara Falls.    Second half went by fast due to the continuous clock, but overall the second half was largely a repeat of the first.  Red team had a couple of drives going but fumbled them away.  White team had a potential disastrous fumble in the 2nd when a pitch on the reverse got loose, but ended up recovering it and running off another 3-4 minutes.
 
Line play on both sides was intense, but the protection largely held.

 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: WOW

« on: April 06, 2011, 10:10:13 PM »

I know there's been a lot of 7:00s and quite a few guys in at 6:00.  Been told the line lifts are more geared to power than previously.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Scalzo: Ice Castle becomes White Castle

« on: March 31, 2011, 10:29:08 PM »

All I have to say is that it got pretty $%*&$)%& cold watching practice yesterday.... Nothing like taking off your cap and realizing you have over a 1/2 of snow sitting on top it.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: WOW

« on: March 27, 2011, 09:42:42 PM »

Okay, I'll bite.  Was up yesterday, watched the entire practice, and went down on the field afterwards.  Size has increased and while there are always a few exceptions for the most part it appears that so has the strength.  Size tends to make things look slower, but the line play to me looked as quick as the fall.  Injuries, didn't pay too much attention, but DJ Main's is a carry over from last fall, and Boat's was a freak accident yesterday - he could have had legs the size of Goliath and it would still have happened.  Still too early to tell what we'll see in the fall, but my guess is that we'll see a solid product on the field.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Trevor Strickland

« on: March 07, 2011, 06:41:57 PM »

Thanks, he's looking forward to mixing it up a little this spring.

Saw a lot of the wrong way to lose weight back when I wrestled, but he wasn't trying to cut weight, just found it impossible to take in enough calories to maintain.  The coach ran the program more like a college program than a high school one: 1 1/2-2 hr lifting/conditioning in the morning, then classes, and a 3-4 hour evening practice session session, followed by 30-45 minutes of conditioning 5 - 6 days per week.  Even on days when they had meets they would go in early to do an hour or so of "light conditioning".  There weren't too many kids that needed to worry about cutting weight after that.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Trevor Strickland

« on: March 06, 2011, 12:49:16 PM »

He wrestled in elementary school in the Hwt divisions (and usually in an age group 2 years older than he actually was), but was too big at 238-240lbs to wrestle middle school (also didn't really like the coach). Lost 20lbs during freshman football and then at the urging of his coach went back to it -> Div-I varsity 215 as a freshman (went in at 218 lbs, finished the season at 188lbs) and varsity 285 as a sophomore(went in at 238lbs finished at around 218 lbs), before deciding that he wanted to dedicate himself to getting bigger and faster for football and opted to start working out with Reggie Germany (OSU and Buffalo Bills) the winter of his HS Junior year until reporting to YSU last summer (still works out with him when he's home).

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Trevor Strickland

« on: March 06, 2011, 11:32:01 AM »

Lost 4-1 in the finals to a kid from Washington C.H.  So probably 2 take downs to 1 escape if I had to guess (could also have been a take down & 2 pt near fall to an escape though).  Regardless, an accomplishment to be proud of.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Softball team eager to begin season

« on: February 13, 2011, 10:52:23 PM »

Looks like they knocked off Kent State down at Elon.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Work gets started on YSU’s WATTS Center

« on: December 08, 2010, 09:52:43 PM »

New pics up at: http://www.ysusports.com/information/facilities/images/WATTS/WATTS_photo_gallery_12-8-10