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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 12, 2023, 10:05:33 AM »

Dude, the 93 and 94 teams were littered with legit D1 players that either stayed home or transferred back. Tressel worked that like a master. There probably aren’t more than a small handful of kids on the current roster that could have played for those teams. FCS 2023 is D2 when compared to 1AA in the 90s

Nova is correct back when Trestle was here specially, with the early 90s teams we had many D1 players. Another advantage he had even though he said he recruited a state of Youngstown. He recruited the city series schools very well plus the local area had more talent which has been reduced Due to population shrinking and the loss of manufacturing jobs and people moving away especially from Packard and GM. Another reason back then too one AA was only about 80 teams now I think it’s over 100+ I didn’t check but I know it’s more division one has increased as well , so Phillips does have a harder job and recruiting elite players. So going back to what power was saying that we could probably just have a game manager for a QB that’s true but it always hurts us now when we play the better teams Davidson was system quarterback, and he did  Have an elite running back for one year and he had a elite receiver for two years, but he was limited and it showed at times. 
Football is about the QB at all levels now QB has to be accurate and make a decisions and be elusive. It seems that Youngstown state we get a QB but he’s missing one of the attributes and I need to be developed.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 11, 2023, 05:28:12 PM »

WOW!! Another wasted scholly on a QB project!! BB (6-0) is too short for FCS football, right?? Ask the kid from Albany (5-11), Baker from SIU (5-9) nothing good ever became of them.

Need to spend schollies on defense!

YSU football the home of incompetence.

GooooGuins!!

Baker played like crap against us.  As for BB, the coach wouldn’t let him throw so WTH knows what he can do.

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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 11, 2023, 05:24:58 PM »

Guins rank ~ 17.

Geeeessshh! Keep hearing that name Wolford and talent.. Last I checked all that talent didn't win squat?! Must have been he couldn't coach, or no one wanted to play for a drunken azzhole.. Beat Pitt lost to 2-8 MO State?!?

Ole Wolf needs to be a recruiter for the Guins. Maybe the world would become perfect again.

Wasn’t defending Wolford, as a coach he had alot of to learn, and our defense cost us. There were some bad defeats really bad it seemed like November was his demise.  We were horrible in November.  Alabama has him now maybe he will learn something from Saban.

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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 11, 2023, 01:38:58 PM »

Everyone has good points. Something’s to ponder if this was 10-20 years ago didn’t they only choose 12 or 16 teams. The playoffs have been watered down.  Phillips is not the messiah here. Yes he has improved the team but it’s not close in talent to any of Wolfords teams.  Wolford beat Pitt.  What’s Phillips signature win.  Phillips has not come close to recruiting as Wolford.  As for where are in the scheme of things we are s middle of a pack conference team that couldn’t or can’t beat the top 4 Teams.  We played a schedule with no Bison on it.  We weren’t going to beat them and with that loss we would have been 6-5. No better than previous years and previous coaches

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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 11, 2023, 11:24:12 AM »

Let's not forget that Tressel, with the exception of Ken Connatzer (sp?) and veteran high school coach Bob Stoops, had a very young coaching staff. Some of these guys advanced to become prominent head coaches and coordinators. And that was an era when P5 assistants were not making too much more money than IAA head coaches.

The issue is not that Phillips has a young staff; the issue is does he have the right staff? Can these guys grow into good coaches and move on, to be replaced by the next generation of ambitious young men? Right now I feel that the problem with our defensive coaches is not their youth but rather their basic competence. You can't evolve in your profession if you lack the ability to be in that profession.

The last good defensive coach we had really was Heacock and I guess you could say the Pelliini as well but they had the horses upfront to get the job done if you remember the Heacock era, we have many all Americans on a defensive line at linebacker and in the secondary so it does take players as well as coaches, and like what was said in the previous post head coach has to make the correct hire

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 11, 2023, 11:13:02 AM »

We shall see if Brady Shannon is rusty.   Not a bad get but we will need more transfers a that position

Did he get any D1 offers to play QB when he came out of HS? If I recall, Crenshaw was also a 3 star recruit who could run but not pass. I hope this guy could do better.

Thanks for the insight but a recruit with no experience has been out of football for a few years isn’t the answer as a starter and a D1 program. We’ve had plenty of quarterbacks that could run and not pass and let us to mediocre results. Sounds like this guy is a project he needs time to develop.

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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 10, 2023, 06:39:24 PM »

Well we lost in the second round so no better than 9th  but prolly lower anround 12th Even with the win it brought very little buzz to the community.  Going to take a lot to get that back if they can.  We were not a top 10 team with that Defense.  And if we still had The Bison on the schedule instead of Murray we wouldn’t have made it

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

« on: December 10, 2023, 03:00:49 PM »

watched some of the nova/bunny game today, do not feel so bad about our loss to Nova. They were legit, gave SDSU all they could handle.

100% Agree, Villanova was an extremely good team.

I watched a lot of it Villanova played well their QB made a few mistakes and their coach probably should have went for it on 4th and 1.   Weather and SD line wore on them as they got deep into the game.  Nova is better then us.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 08, 2023, 07:02:06 PM »

Looks like we might of lost a few more guys in the portal it’s crazy.  Looks like we offered a RB Robinson from Duquesne.  As well.  Anybody close to the program know if some were told to go.  FCS is dead if this is the new model. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 07, 2023, 09:57:58 PM »

You can’t blame anybody for transferring.for money of a better program.  We lose coaches all the time due to money.

This program has lived on borrowed time and even got the hometown discount from Tress and Pelini and I think even Heacock took a little less so he could pay his assistants better

We never parleyed our success to get to D1 and found any big money donors to get us their if Monus wouldn’t haven’t been caught he might of done that

So get used to his bit is 7-4, 6-5 maybe an 8-3 season here or there unless we find more cash and players will come and go now

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 06, 2023, 08:01:30 AM »

Okay everyone don’t forget if they already used their eligibility they can transfer for 1 yr for grad school.  I don’t know how many have used their 4 years

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ohio State junior quarterback Kyle McCord enters the trade portal

« on: December 04, 2023, 08:29:21 PM »

Our NIL would be like getting minimum wage not happening after what he has done and what he made at Ohio St

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 04, 2023, 08:27:22 PM »

Howard is has. 1 yr left as a grad so I think rules states he has to transfer.  In his twitter he had sd Michigan St offered and Liberty already.
If I was a YSU receiver I would be concerned about who is throwing to me in 24.  Could be growing pains and some guys don’t want to waste a year for that.
 Plus now with the portal the bigger schools can cherry pick off the smaller schools especially with NIL to build depth etc

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

« on: December 02, 2023, 02:37:57 PM »

We were a middle of the pack MVFC team.  That really didn’t beat anybody in our conference.  Nova was the better team player wise on D.  And on offense.  Hannon complimented how good their linebackers were and their QB.

Hannon just complimented how well coached nova was and they were ready for us and  well prepared.  We just got a junk td. Maybe we need some JT magic

Again we were a middle of the pack team and it looks like the committee got it right. My hats of to NOVA.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NCAA Playoffs Week 1: Duquesne at YSU Saturday 11/25 at 5pm

« on: November 27, 2023, 09:56:22 PM »

It has been stated in the past if you make a run in the playoffs you lose money.