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Title: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: FOOTBALLFEVER on November 18, 2019, 10:00:02 AM
It's crazy to think the redbirds have only scored 15 TDs in conference play to our 22 Tds . On the flip side they have allowed just 15 Tds to our 34. If Mark Waid does get the start this week it could be a tall task for him. It will be interesting to see how much RPO the staff uses with him going forward and how his body can hold up to it
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: ysuguins4 on November 22, 2019, 08:15:02 PM
Hopefully some folks come out to see Mark Waid play, but I'm putting the over/under at 1000 butts in seats.  Too many factors working against them.

temp around 40 and chance of rain
no playoffs
undefeated OSU vs 1 loss PSU
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on November 22, 2019, 11:17:56 PM
I am going to see Nate Mays before the game & give him his well-deserved standing ovation, along with the rest of this class. These are the last of the pre-Bo players and there is only a couple of them left.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: Buddy on November 23, 2019, 01:05:57 PM
Almost 10 minutes in and either team completed a pass and have 3 interceptions!!

Actually 25 minutes in!!!!
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: Buddy on November 23, 2019, 01:13:05 PM
Wow.  With 3 minutes left in the half ysu get first completion.   First for either team
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: Buddy on November 23, 2019, 01:21:23 PM
Maybe a sign of good things to come. 
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: YSU1 on November 23, 2019, 01:36:00 PM
there seems to be a lot of interest in this game
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: YSU1 on November 23, 2019, 01:39:43 PM
my bad everyone is at the game.  I forgot it is a home game
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: OleYSUfan on November 23, 2019, 02:44:14 PM
WOW! Who would have guessed: YSU leading Ill St. late in the 4th Qtr. IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL BEAT A RANKED TEAM. The defense was superb.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: ytownchief22 on November 23, 2019, 02:46:16 PM
Yay?
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: The YO Show on November 23, 2019, 03:06:06 PM
Yay for sure. But also sad to see how much we have underachieved this year. Could have done this a little more in season for playoffs oh well
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: goodnews on November 23, 2019, 03:24:35 PM
Stambaugh has never been kind to the Redbirds
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: Buddy on November 23, 2019, 03:35:14 PM
Maybe a good sign for the future.  Many younger players playing.  Get some new assistant coaches and who knows.  I am getting tired of keeping looking forward to next year....
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: The YO Show on November 23, 2019, 03:53:21 PM
Stambaugh has never been kind to the Redbirds
Maybe my memory is bad but I distinctly remember several win and your in games against the Redbirds at stambaugh under Wolford. Don't remember winning them either lol
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: DavedS on November 23, 2019, 03:58:40 PM
Illinois State ended up completing as many passes to YSU as they did their own team--was proud of our team today,they gave a great effort especially on defense---nice to see Nate Mays take the final snap.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: guinpen on November 23, 2019, 05:00:22 PM
Very enjoyable game, nice weather, very good defensive effort. The fair weather fans missed a good game, their loss.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: go guins on November 25, 2019, 09:27:09 AM
I am going to see Nate Mays before the game & give him his well-deserved standing ovation, along with the rest of this class. These are the last of the pre-Bo players and there is only a couple of them left.
You were right in your deserved ovation request, but Bo outdid you on this one.  The end of the game tribute was one I've never seen the equal!
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: guinpen on November 30, 2019, 06:15:05 PM
Of course Ill St wins their first round game on the road 24-3. Robinson ran for just under 300.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: DavedS on November 30, 2019, 08:42:41 PM
Of course Ill St wins their first round game on the road 24-3. Robinson ran for just under 300.
Robinson must have healed--I read he was only about 50% against us.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 01, 2019, 10:16:05 AM
Of course Ill St wins their first round game on the road 24-3. Robinson ran for just under 300.
Robinson must have healed--I read he was only about 50% against us.


If that. You people make me laugh. The worst YSU team (at least on defense) in recent memory and suddenly we became a top-5 club in one week?  :o  We have enormous amounts of work to do to be a real football team. Not too much if we wish to be a Pelini football team. When they have no QB, you can pretty much stop any offense. I mean their QB only completed 3 passes? btw, Robinson did rush for over 80-yards against us at almost 4-yards-per-carry, this despite YSU double-teaming him on every play. Besides SeMO?
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 01, 2019, 11:21:49 AM
BTW: I do not mean to disrespect SeMO for being in the post-season, they did play well late in the season.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: DavedS on December 01, 2019, 12:13:49 PM
We definitely weren't a top 5 team--we were more like a bi-polar team,some weeks playing "lights out "and some weeks playing  like "who cares?"
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: DavedS on December 01, 2019, 12:30:48 PM
BTW: I do not mean to disrespect SeMO for being in the post-season, they did play well late in the season.
They were ranked #12--a helluva lot higher than YSU and still lost to a team without a QB--that's why they play the game instead of using projected statistics! ;)
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 01, 2019, 12:32:01 PM
We definitely weren't a top 5 team--we were more like a bi-polar team,some weeks playing "lights out "and some weeks playing  like "who cares?"

I agree David, but that is because everything with coach Bo is "big play". With big plays on offense you score quick or it is 3 & out. With big play defense you drop the QB for a loss of he burns you. There is no balance on defense whatsoever and little of it on offense. We blitz or we double-cover receivers. We rotate offensive backs with little attentions to development or running style. It took Mays being less that 100% from off-season surgery to keep him from running & his back-ups were the same. All of Mays successful passing was short-side throw for the end zone. Yet he has always shown the ability to work traffic, as do Craycraft and Waid. Perhaps even more-so with Craycraft and Waid. Craycraft was darn impressive working the sidelines against ILS. Waid was almost as good with less experience.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: guinpen on December 09, 2019, 08:48:42 PM
On to the final 8, Robinson had an off game, only 210 yards. Bison next
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: FOOTBALLFEVER on December 14, 2019, 03:21:43 PM
Bison over Illinois St. 9-3..Quarterback play for the Redbirds was a major problem all year. I like James Madison to win the championship. Shane Montgomery is doing a good job with the Dukes offense
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: Wick250 on December 14, 2019, 05:37:53 PM
Remember that Illinois State lost their starting quarterback the week before they played us.  He was not great but he was way better than the stiffs that replaced him.  The fact the Illinois State actually won two playoffs games with lousy quarterback play just tells us that half the FCS field was terrible.

The three MVFC teams that have been eliminated so far have lost only to other MVFC rivals or to James Madison.  In fact, the upper echelon of FCS football consists only of the first division of the MVFC plus James Madison.  That will be reinforced next week when NDSU and JMU both wallop Big Sky pretenders.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: guinpen on December 14, 2019, 07:13:02 PM
They had a good run, we both were missing players, what could have been.

As for the rest of FCS, the fun continues for ndsu but the division as a whole is no where near as competitive as it was years ago. Too many of the top teams have moved up, not as interesting as it once was.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: YSU1 on December 14, 2019, 08:57:32 PM
what does that say about YSU since we can't even get into the play-offs
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 15, 2019, 08:22:53 PM
what does that say about YSU since we can't even get into the play-offs

It tells us that we let the wrong coach go 3 years ago.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: HappyPenguin on December 15, 2019, 09:18:01 PM
what does that say about YSU since we can't even get into the play-offs

It tells us that we let the wrong coach go 3 years ago.

UNC Charlotte would disagree  :o
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 16, 2019, 06:14:00 AM
what does that say about YSU since we can't even get into the play-offs

It tells us that we let the wrong coach go 3 years ago.

UNC Charlotte would disagree  :o

 lol  1 year in a program that was ready to fire it's coach. I said he was a good coach, not a miracle-worker.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: HappyPenguin on December 16, 2019, 08:32:39 PM
what does that say about YSU since we can't even get into the play-offs

It tells us that we let the wrong coach go 3 years ago.

UNC Charlotte would disagree  :o

 lol  1 year in a program that was ready to fire it's coach. I said he was a good coach, not a miracle-worker.

Haha I don't really care how many times he gets fired I just knew you'd have to run to his aid, I couldn't help myself.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 17, 2019, 07:04:37 AM
Montgomery was not fired fron UNC-C. He left for JMU and the head coach (of UNC-C) was fired. Coach M was not fired from YSU either. No need to run to his aide, just upset that we let him walk away and have a bunch of HS coaches in charge. Meanwhile a consistent top team in the nation goes after coach M and gets him.

#1 in scoring
#2 in 3rd-downs
#10 rushing offense
#3 in passing efficiency
#6 red zone offense
#8 in time-of-possession
#3 in total yards regular season (almost 6,000)
#7 total offense

All of this helps equal #2 winning percentage.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: YSUFANSINCE1990 on December 17, 2019, 09:08:03 AM
  Coach M can coach, our offenses under Kurt Hess were dynamic.  It was the defense that was lousy.  Major downgrade from Coach M to Brian Crist.

 Pelini made it known he wanted a change, Coach M didn't want to leave, he was given little choice. 
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: penguinpower on December 17, 2019, 10:02:42 AM
Montgomery was not fired fron UNC-C. He left for JMU and the head coach (of UNC-C) was fired. Coach M was not fired from YSU either. No need to run to his aide, just upset that we let him walk away and have a bunch of HS coaches in charge. Meanwhile a consistent top team in the nation goes after coach M and gets him.

#1 in scoring
#2 in 3rd-downs
#10 rushing offense
#3 in passing efficiency
#6 red zone offense
#8 in time-of-possession
#3 in total yards regular season (almost 6,000)
#7 total offense

All of this helps equal #2 winning percentage.


If he was so good, then why didn't we have a dominant offensive line.  He may have been a good play caller, but he was not a great recuiter, and recruiting is >70% of the equation for success.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: IAA Fan on December 17, 2019, 02:21:10 PM
We had quality O-lines during coach M's tenure, with depth. Along with awesome backs & TE's. Now we had a bit less depth at WR, but they seemed a bit taller (to me). Besides we have far too many receivers under Bo.
Title: Re: YSU vs Illinois St
Post by: goodnews on December 17, 2019, 03:53:35 PM
JMU has better coaches.  They recruit better and therefore are better.  Period end of story!