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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Nit
« on: March 18, 2024, 06:13:29 AM »
The Horizon gets no respect, I watched Duquesne win yesterday wonder if that league would be a good fit for an upgrade. If Dayton still in would be a good rival
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Dan can you do something about preventing spam posts? Is Site Safe?
« on: March 09, 2024, 06:04:05 PM »
Been getting too much spam
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Tourney Seeding
« on: March 08, 2024, 09:56:31 AM »
Yes, it was a disappointing season but just think we won over 20 games had a home game for the tournament and we’re disappointed. The program is in the right direction. Even in these crazy times with the pay for play college athlete. It’s gonna be hard to develop and keep, those players by the way we used to recruit because if they become good, they’re gonna go to the money at least Coach Calhoun figured out a way to make us relevant if we can keep them and put together two or three more years than it becomes a true basketball program and then You can recruit and develop and keep hopefully a few of those kids and then use the portal. The fill in the cracks time will tell.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: It’s officially Football Season
« on: March 08, 2024, 09:52:32 AM »
Hey, we appreciate your passion to see if any Ohio State quarterbacks would transfer here. That would be great but with the state of college football NIL Moneytalks which we don’t have at this stage and quite quite honestly not at any stage, so we’re gonna have to trust Phillips and your offensive coordinator to find that quarterback. Is the legacy QB is the one they targeted and they’re gonna give give him every opportunity to win the job. I haven’t been to a physical game since the championship in Frisco. I moved out of Ohio now live in Florida so I haven’t seen any of the quarterbacks live in person so it’s hard to tell if the legacy QB is division, one material.
The only thing that scares me is they really didn’t let him throw much last year and since he’s more of a run option quarterback, durability could be an issue in our league and as you know, we don’t seem to have keeping running quarterbacks upright. My main concern this year is getting the defense prepared.I I’m hoping we have a style that we all can relate to. And maybe we can get lucky and find somebody on offense that’s a gamebreaker like we had And McLaughlin.
The only thing that scares me is they really didn’t let him throw much last year and since he’s more of a run option quarterback, durability could be an issue in our league and as you know, we don’t seem to have keeping running quarterbacks upright. My main concern this year is getting the defense prepared.I I’m hoping we have a style that we all can relate to. And maybe we can get lucky and find somebody on offense that’s a gamebreaker like we had And McLaughlin.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Get rid of the garbage posts!
« on: February 20, 2024, 10:19:41 AM »
Done
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Get rid of the garbage posts!
« on: February 20, 2024, 10:10:16 AM »
Sorry I took out the last batch but I have been having vision issues and I will try to get rid of it today
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: National Signing day today Football
« on: February 07, 2024, 05:16:50 PM »
Basically the recuiting cycle is busted up into 3 parts . December January and February. I’m. Sure after the Spring Game we will lose a few a gain a few.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Youngstown St loses Defensive Coordinator
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Football: 2024 and Beyond
« on: January 18, 2024, 11:43:03 AM »
Wick I agree for the most part. But after penguin power stated that the coaching staff or the head coach figured out that the defense was too complicated. It all season to figure that out at the same defense last year. So if that was the blame game, why did so many guys leave? I know some of it was due to transfer portal and NIL. Maybe we’ll get lucky next year but you’re right between the defense and now the questions on offense it’s hard to tell. Felt better if we got a QB with some game experience from the transfer portal. I know we got the kid from Ysu, but he hasn’t played quarterback or football for 3 years. So we we are going to camp with really no clear cut successor. Football today is about the QB and the QB needs to be mobile. Make us read quickly and get the ball quickly. We have him. if not, it’s gonna be a long year no matter how improved the defense will be.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Football: 2024 and Beyond
« on: January 18, 2024, 12:28:20 AM »
5 wins
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final
« on: January 10, 2024, 04:46:58 PM »The Athletic Department has their work cut out for them:
Where do you get the money to compete and stay relevant?
What if the money games dry up for YSU after 2027?
How do you persuade a marginal FBS player to come to YSU if he is getting paid even a small amount to just be on the roster at the bigger school?
How do you improve gameday atmosphere at Stambaugh?
Where do you invest the money and how?
Mens Basketball may need to play 4-5 games against superior teams just for the rest of the programs!
Revenues will be at premium like never before!
The next five years, why is she athletics as many questions on a direction that it head. With the new president who knows what could happen was it in favor of a politician to run university but it’s about bringing in dollars and donations. My question is, is he there to build a university up or has a plan to change the universities path we really don’t know, who knows the current leader of the athletics department could retire soon and then there might be a change in the thought process there, but to answer your question about how to raise revenue and draw interest first thing is we need to change the atmosphere at the stadium what would drive What about enclosing the one end zone make out like other universities or they have club seating for parties and alcohol related activities. What about the athletic department tying in with Ryan productions that does the Covell events and have a concert after the game with up-and-coming acts that wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. or I’m just thinking out of a box why not build a large Ferris wheel or something that sort in the corner for the kids and family we have to think outside the box I noticed stuff sounds stupid but you have to have an entertainment experience to go with the game. I know diehards think well all you gotta do is win and they will come. The problem is since the 90s run times of changed people have things to do and going to a boring Youngstown state versus Valparaiso isn’t going to cut it Conference due lack of a rivalry are boring to the average casual fan anyways, just some thoughts my guess is what we know of FCS division will be completely different in five years. Do you do all the chaos happening now.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final
« on: January 08, 2024, 08:28:20 PM »Bill I did some research they are retaining 18-20 guys I guess that could have left? They want a 3 peat . Another thing The rabbits didn’t have a NIL. They just started a collective recently.
Yes but they lose a lot of 6th year seniors
They will have 34 Seniors next year
But 16 seniors currently plan to return to be 2024 super seniors. Add in 18 juniors this season, and that’s 34 seniors for the 2024 squad.
However, the next opponent comes Monday.
The transfer portal closed in early January for non-grad transfers, but SDSU and Montana players get an extended 5-day window starting Monday due to playing in this game.
A question among SDSU fans this weekend was “Is Gronowski coming back?”
The junior has two more years of eligibility left. Gronowski already has two championship wins and is 37-2 as a full-game starter, 36-1 vs. FCS opponents. His offensive coordinator Zach Lujan is reportedly going to be the next OC for Big Ten member Northwestern, which is near Gronowski’s hometown. And we know how much money standout QBs can make from NIL collectives.
A day after Gronowski won the Walter Payton Award as the best FCS offensive player, he was awarded his second straight Most Outstanding Player trophy for the championship game. As he got the trophy, SDSU fans started to chant “One more year.”
The quarterback is the centerpiece of a team. With or without Gronowski, SDSU has plenty of other key pieces back next fall and will have a veteran roster. As far as we currently know for standout players returning outside the QB position: RB Amar Johnson and WR Griffin Wilde look to be the next All-American-level talent, Gus Miller will anchor the o-line after winning the 2023 Rimington Award as the best FCS center, All-American LB Adam Bock said he’s returning, All-Conference CB Dalys Beanum is coming back, as is All-Conference safety Tucker Large. Other starters and rotational guys will also be back.
SDSU is still going to be pretty dang good next season, and it has shown the ability to reload when it loses senior talent.
The current age of college football sees plenty of roster overhaul. Some years the transfer portal will hit you hard. In other years you won’t lose anyone and the portal benefits you with some nice additions.
SDSU’s 2023 team is a prime example of what happens when the stars stick together.
The Jacks were special for many reasons this season. Whether it was the overall talent level, the defense, the dominating wins, or the playoff performances. Perhaps most special was the roster staying mostly intact to accomplish something great.
Maybe they’ll be the last team like this in the portal era. Or maybe they’ll set a precedent. Hey, SDSU doesn’t have to look far up Interstate 29 to see NDSU’s star players sticking together for a 2024 run.
SDSU was an elite team in 2023. A mark of an elite program is reloading when you lose a historic senior class. And this year’s Jackrabbit senior class will be remembered as one of the better ones in FCS history.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final
« on: January 07, 2024, 06:44:01 PM »
Bill I did some research they are retaining 18-20 guys I guess that could have left? They want a 3 peat . Another thing The rabbits didn’t have a NIL. They just started a collective recently.
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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: FCS final
« on: January 07, 2024, 06:05:18 PM »Second half and not an exciting game at all
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To be honest FCS as it’s made up is boring.