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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguin Baseball

« on: March 03, 2012, 01:29:02 PM »

Pride,

A college umpire who knows our former coach told me that the main reason why Florak left was his frustration with the funding level.  Apparently the main qualification for our current coach is that he works cheap and does not complain.  Nothing will change for baseball or any other olympic sport until the money is transferred from administration into the coaching and recruiting budgets.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguin Baseball

« on: March 01, 2012, 07:34:58 PM »

Each year I make the same post about not being worried that we lose to southern teams in February or March.  This year is different.  We are getting blasted by some northern teams that should not be any better prepared than we are.  Not good.  Perhaps the prognosticators were correct.  Perhaps recruiting will improve with the WATTS center.  It better.  This is unacceptable.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Changes to 12-13 NCAA football season.

« on: March 01, 2012, 02:44:19 PM »

This will have a huge and positive impact for us.  Fans at some schools are complaining about having their opponents start drives at the 25 yard line.  For us, that will represent a 15-20 yard improvement.   The NCAA really has helped us reform our worst special team.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU arrests

« on: February 22, 2012, 07:26:09 PM »

As distasteful as it is for this Mooney graduate to defend Ursuline, that school undoubtedly "saves" many more inner city kids than it "loses."  I just hope Wolford is being real careful.  He was desperate to upgrade the talent level for the first two years, but now I would hope that he overcomes the temptation to bring aboard unsavory characters.  Hopefully, the Rogers "quick fix" (no bad pun intended) will be Wolford's last.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Beating a dead horse, YSU to MAC?

« on: February 22, 2012, 07:17:30 PM »

The athletic budgets in the MAC are many millions more than ours.  Yet the MAC is almost always inferior to the Horizon League in basketball.  In football, let's give up the chance to compete for the national championship on the 2nd level so that we can acquire a coveted spot in the famous Clorox Toilet Bowl.  Oh, we would also be playing without any BSC transfers since they all go to FCS programs because of the NCAA "instant-transfer" rule.  Ohioans just don't get it: fans of real FBS powers consider the MAC and the Sunbelt to be a joke, and bad joke at that. 

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Non YSU Sports / Re: Recruiting the Catholics

« on: February 20, 2012, 11:24:27 PM »

IAA Fan is going to throw your butts off this board if you don't stop posting about this high school stuff.

Seriously, use the non-YSU portion of the board.  It is frustrating coming here while seeking YSU material and running into this.  And the answer to your question is obvious.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Joe Tresey New Defensive Coordinator

« on: February 18, 2012, 12:24:41 PM »

The statement "no one else wanted this gig" cannot be supported with hard data.  None of us know how many coaches contacted Wolford about the DC position.  None of us know how many people Wolford interviewed.  After the stinging losses to South Dakota State and Missouri State and the horrible first quarter at Indiana State last fall, some of us harbor doubts about the coaching capacity of Wolford and his staff.  But the credentials of the assistants that he hires are very strong.  No staff in YSU history had the background of Wolford's current assistants.  Now will that translate into victories?  It better.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Joe Tresey New Defensive Coordinator

« on: February 17, 2012, 11:05:50 AM »

He appears to be quite the football gypsy, and it probably would have been a bad thing if Wolford had hired him in 2010 when he was building the foundation.  But now, two years later, we have the best offense in FCS football and it is returning intact.  Now is the time for a "quick fix" on defense.  If Tresey can lift the defense to just average status in 2012 and 2013, that would give our offense the chance to overwhelm our opponents.  Where he coaches in 2014 is of little concern. 

I also like the fact that Tresey has coached in the midwest, south, and west.  He should be familiar with multiple styles and should be able to develop a scheme that works best for our talent.  Just because he ran an attacking defense elsewhere does not guarantee that he will do the same here.

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Non YSU Sports / Re: If Akise Teague.....

« on: February 16, 2012, 02:44:57 PM »

Aren't we all forgetting something?  This guy was arrested for burglary.  You know, trial, conviction, prison.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Softball Opens Today at USC-Upstate Tournament

« on: February 16, 2012, 02:40:44 PM »

Softball is a game dominated by pitching to an even greater extent than baseball.  Our problem is on the mound.  Our returning pitchers simply cannot get out Horizon League hitters.  That 4.30 ERA in softball is much worse than the same numbers would be in baseball.  If the freshmen pitchers are not better than the veterans, it will be another frustrating league season.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: TONIGHT at Beeghly: Basketball Hosts National Runners-Up Butler on ESPN

« on: February 11, 2012, 02:30:57 PM »

Although Heacock had a much higher winning percentage than Slocum, there is a parallel between the two coaches.  Both men were capable of recruiting some very good players.  Remember that Heacock recruited both Hess and Cook.  Slocum recruited Perry and Allen (Eargle does not count since he just decided to come home.)  However, both men failed because they lacked the ability to recruit ENOUGH good players for their respective situations.  By the end of his tenure, Heacock was filling roster spots with guys that simply could not help us.  Likewise, just look at our basketball bench.  Heacock lost his job because of this deficiency, and Slocum should also.  But as IP noted, he won't.  I predict he will coach here for two more years, until Perry graduates.  He will then leave behind a basketball program that is a complete mess.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: TONIGHT at Beeghly: Basketball Hosts National Runners-Up Butler on ESPN

« on: February 10, 2012, 10:02:59 AM »

I would also like to thank Coach Slocum for his outstanding game preparation and his keen ability to motivate players at home in front of good crowds.  Late in the first half, I asked myself this question:  Why am I sitting here watching Larson and Chojnacki try to play basketball?  I subsequently answered my own question by leaving at half-time and thus saving myself twenty additional minutes of aggravation. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Baseball America picks YSU last in the Horizon League

« on: February 09, 2012, 11:38:01 AM »

We have some transfers, including the son of a former major league player.  Expectations are higher than last place.  If this preview is correct, it will reinforce Strollo's expertise at picking bad head coaches, especially on the Olympic sport level.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: TONIGHT at Beeghly: Basketball Hosts National Runners-Up Butler on ESPN

« on: February 09, 2012, 11:34:16 AM »

It would really help if Marshall could not play.  And Eargle simply can not commit any stupid fouls (for example, trying to check a guard thirty feet from the hoop.)  If he gets into early trouble, Butler will destroy our bench on the boards.  It was really strange picking up the Vindicator and seeing us listed as a 1 point favorite tonight.  I'll take it.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU defensive coordinator leaves

« on: February 06, 2012, 11:23:04 AM »

Wolford is taking his time and being thorough, just as he did after he was hired and assembled his staff.  That is a good thing.  Perhaps the DC will be someone that has not even been mentioned here.  As another poster suggested, with our offense, this has got to be a very attractive job.  You don't have to be perfect; just don't stink.