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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by Double ET on November 19, 2024, 10:25:58 AM »

Jayguin,

We must have been looking at two different teams. Our defense was pathetic. Good thing we are the national leader, or close to it, in time of possession. If we had an offense that could not move the chains, that defense would have given up 500 yards and 45+ points every game. Were there any legitimate DI players on that defense? Some of us could not see one.

If we retain those defensive coaches, we are doomed.

I agree our defense is very poor, especially the defensive scheme. Unless the defensive coaches are either replaced or coming up with better schemes, we will not improved (even with better players.)

Our offense needs to score lots of points to keep us in the game. BB has shown some signs of passing game in the last outing. I believe that was because he hurt his ankle so he couldn’t take off running. That forced him to start looking for receivers. Our coaches might be able to work with him next year to improve his passing game with both longer passes or looking for secondary receivers.
Just my opinions.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by Wick250 on November 19, 2024, 09:28:36 AM »

Jayguin,

We must have been looking at two different teams. Our defense was pathetic. Good thing we are the national leader, or close to it, in time of possession. If we had an offense that could not move the chains, that defense would have given up 500 yards and 45+ points every game. Were there any legitimate DI players on that defense? Some of us could not see one.

If we retain those defensive coaches, we are doomed.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by Jayguin on November 19, 2024, 07:47:55 AM »

I agree pride.  I feel like we said the same thing only with different spinsqq. I strongly feel out d needs to improve a lot to compete for a championship. Our d needs to improve a little for us to be a playoff team.  We need to compete Aagainst ndsu and SDSU.  We also need to win on the road.  That being said I don't think we are too far off. Btw, the other big question mark is who will we lose in the portal.  We will see.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by YsuPride on November 19, 2024, 07:13:31 AM »

Jayguin way to go covering up and making excuses for a miserable year.   Defense needs revamped AGAIN and we are going to need to hit  portal hard with transfers that can actually play at this level.   Next years schedule includes NDSU on the road and SDSU at home.  Towson and Michigan St on road as well. Unless we get help we are looking at more of the same.  Just my thoughts.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by Jayguin on November 19, 2024, 01:34:32 AM »

To put things in perspective.  This season did not go as planned however it is definitely not all doom and gloom.  With a young QB that has shown consistent improvement all year and a young defense that has improved but needs to improve much more we will probably end the season 6 th or 7th in MVFC.  We will be 6 if ISU loses to UNI this week which is possible. I feel teams 1-5 would get in the playoffs however with Missouri State not eligible it will be 4 from MVFC.  Also as we look at the individual losses USD, ISU, MOST were all close winnable games and all of those teams are in playoff position right now.  This is with our d playing very poor especially early in the year.  Throw in the SUI and Duquesne games which we definitely should  have won and we would've talking playoffs. Btw, Duquesne will probably be a playoff team again.  They have not lost since they played us.  We truly are only 5 plays from being 9-3.  Just to add fuel to this logic I believe 2 of those games when MVFC reviewed refereeing they said the wrong call was made late in the game in favor of our opponent. Go guins

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by guinpen on November 18, 2024, 06:21:53 PM »

On a side note, the give a ways at the UNI game were a good idea. Nice little bags, grandkids love them!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NLI day

« Last post by YsuPride on November 18, 2024, 05:14:19 PM »

Both players seem like a good fit here.  Swider comes from a family of basketball players. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The Founder of this message board has died

« Last post by InTheYo on November 18, 2024, 01:12:52 PM »

May he rest in peace. Thank you for your love and support for YSU and for setting up this message board in the first place. I am sure thousands have posted on this site over the years!

Moving forward, who are the remaining moderators on this website? Will we be able to salvage this moving forward? If not, one thought I had was to create a YSU Penguins subreddit on reddit.com which we could use moving forward if this website ends up going away. We definitely need a message board like this for our fan base and would be happy to help moderate with others a subreddit group for us if we need to go that route.

For those of you who do not know reddit, it is a massive message board website. Each subreddit is its own individual community. There is a big Youngstown subreddit out there right now anyhow.

Let us know so we can start planning accordingly!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The Founder of this message board has died

« Last post by peteonastick on November 18, 2024, 09:00:32 AM »

RIP. Sad news.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: UNI week

« Last post by peteonastick on November 18, 2024, 08:56:55 AM »

Our 4 wins this year - teams combined records are 14-29. We beat patsies and let’s face it the best win was against UND who are currently 5-6. One thing I think we are overlooking is that besides the Pitt and SDSU games, when we needed to score we didn’t and couldn’t. Villanova, Duquesne, Missouri State, South Dakota, Illinois State, SIU were all winnable games but we didn’t have the passing attack and balanced offense to win those games. Granted our defense was putrid all year but we were in those games but teams made adjustments against our one dimensional offense and we did not and could not score because we have no balance on offense and lacked the ability to stretch defenses. Priority in the portal - offense- Oline, 2 deep threat receivers, running back. Defense - front 7 and 2 secondary starters! Heard that the defensive schemes were too confusing this year?? We did lose a D coordinator who has Mercer winning their conference. Granted it’s not the MVFC but what happened?  I know.. we pay our assistant coaches beans and nobody would want to come here for little money. Heard it for 30 years. This off season is going to be crucial for this program. Otherwise we are looking at Pelini level breakdown.