Im not gonna say DP is THE guy, because I don’t know if he is. But please stop with the “principal” or “plenty of D2/3 coaches” crap. You’re making yourselves look silly. You act like we never went 33-28 over 4 years, and 21-24 in 4 of 5 years, or lost to Butler with not just a D2 high school principal, BUT rather a POWER 5 coach. By your logic, we should have had 4-star recruits and back to back championships from 2014-2019 with said-type of coach. Except, we had ALL of that. And last I checked, BP doesn’t have an education degree nor did he ever coach at the D2/2 level.
Nice post.
I agree.
We should finish in the top 16 this year. Let's say we finish 16th. That puts us in the 88th percentile of all FCS teams. We weren't competitive a few years ago.
One last thing......I have a lot of respect for Bob Hannon's take with regard to FCS football. He's exceptionally knowledgeable. He not a casual fan by any means. If you listen to his broadcasts he hints to everyone the talent depth and future of YSU football under Phillips and most of it is positive.
Everyone here should have known that when we played teams like USD and SDSU (both of them are still playing in the final 
we were unable to get pressure on their QB and as a result they had all day to throw and make our defense look incompetent. We are a couple of players away and another year of development away from fixing this issue. I didn't understand how people can think you flip a switch with a coach and you get the best team in the country that plays the way you remember in the 1990's. It's going to take time to build it right. And as I've said before, we've gotten better under Phillips every single year.
Good take.
Nobody "Makes Your Defense Look Incompetent". It is like a 100m run ... if the guy in the lane next to you is faster, all things being equal, he will win. Likewise if the team that you are playing is better ...they will win. We had a good runner stumble against us (SIU) and we think we are "the stuff". I mean, what else did we do this season?We had a handful of good players make good plays. The problem was that Villanova's entire team was better than ours. I said that I would give Phillips another year, with the COVID season and I will. Let's start another thread with what you see for 2024 and beyond.
I guarantee you that if you had better defensive coaches and a better DL we would have been able to stop every team. When your DE's crash and lose cosntain it has nothing to do with how how fast you run.
When you don't have the athletes to get after a QB and you give them all day to throw, it doesn't matter how good your defensive backs are, they will get burned.
You can slow very good teams with marginal athletes if they're playing together you can be a competent but outmatched defense., but when you make mistakes and you don't have the athletes it spells disaster.
As I've said before, Phillips has a very challenging job because he has to develop coaches AND players with pennies. He cannot draw the best coaches due to pay. If someone wants to donate to the team and buy excellent assistants, you would have a much better team and Phillips would look like a genius.
Bottom line is when you don't do the fundamentals you are incompetent
