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

« on: February 23, 2012, 06:31:09 PM »

YSUGO....really?  REALLY??  What rivalry does Akron or Kent or any other MAC team bring to YSU?  NONE.  They both SUCK and have sucked for years....that's not a rivalry my friend.  Why do you think neither of them will schedule YSU?  Because they already suck and the fact of a loss every year to an FCS team would make them suck even more!!!!  Our fans don't come out enough as it is; you honestly think they would come to watch Akron or Kent?  OK, OK, maybe the first year or 2.  I would much rather play for a championship than the Clorox Toilet Bowl (as appropriately named above).

Soup ..there is NO team in I-AA that is more important to beat than Akron ...hands down, Granted I am over 40yrs old and that has something to do with it. Yet if you attend many YSU football games ...I am barely middle-aged compared to the regulars. All of which hate Akron as much as I do. Imagine being able to have Marshall, Akron, Kent, Pitt, UMASS, BG, UT, OU on the schedule every year? How about 5-ESPN games per year (if we make the championship, and go to a bowl). To regress a bit ..."totally awesome dude".

So they 'suck', well how many people in the US know NDSU is is any good? How many people could sit in the stands next year ( renegotiated, so it is an away game) right here in the Ice Castle, and will not know they are the defending national champs? If you say anything more than half, you are wrong. Football in at YSU is a tradition ...a form of entertainment.

IAA, you hit the nail on the head.  Last time we went to Kent we filled their stadium, TV exposure is much more prevelant as well.  They are on Espn every week the last 2 mths of the season...FCS football is hardly noticed by the media...Fans can relate to the MAC teams...not some cornbilly school that when they come to the ice castle and bring 10 fans...again this is a dead horse!!!

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

« on: February 22, 2012, 07:33:28 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.

I want us to be in a conference, where we can have rivalries. The MAC would give us that. Football battles against, Kent and Akron every year would play to sell out crowds.  We would have Buffalo to the North of us.  We will never compete for  a championship in the Horizon.. That is being a realist.  WE SEEM TO THINK A FCS championship means more in the football world, it doesnt matter to anybody but the ones that are in it, plus u lose money to achieve it. Its about exposure and money and the MAC get way more exposure as well as a little more money than YSU being in the FCS.  For some reason we are still stuck in the 90's and think the sports public cares about FCS or 1AA...they dont and ESPN doesnt either.  They didnt have the last few FCS games on the main channel vs back in the 90's when CBS had it...But that being said...WE ARE BEATING A DEAD HORSE

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball Drops 71-68 Decision at Austin Peay in BracketBuster Game

« on: February 22, 2012, 05:59:42 PM »

Slocum, earned at least another year or 2.  He could have this year and didnt. I am not a big fan of him, BUT, he could have stayed at Gannon and got his 16-18 wins with out breaking a sweat.  But he decided to come to a program that was in the crapper due to Robic, and now he has got us to the point if he can reel of a couple of good years , he will get us out of the crapper.  We dont have money and I don't see the detractors donating 5k a year we need about a 100 of those to get a coach that you think we all deserve.  Mahoning Valley fans are cheap.  So unless you want to give up some Benjamins...Slocum is our Coach!!!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU arrests

« on: February 22, 2012, 05:28:08 PM »

UHS rap sheet keeps getting bigger and bigger lol!!!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball Drops 71-68 Decision at Austin Peay in BracketBuster Game

« on: February 19, 2012, 08:01:15 PM »

We have match up problems with teams that have decent bigs...needs to be addressed..Slocum gets 1 more year.  I hope we can get  a home turney game.  But I think we have ran out of gas!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Joe Tresey New Defensive Coordinator

« on: February 17, 2012, 06:28:54 PM »

Our defense just improved 6-8 pts on this hire.  Kravitz was plain incompetent.

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

« on: February 15, 2012, 02:22:39 PM »

With Wolfords recruiting...getting Teague to me isnt a pressing issue...if we want to give him a chance thats ok...but he needs to earn that trust...show me a 3.0 ,and a year on the scout team and some community service..then maybe in 2013 you can play...to hand a kid something with no consequences, is not helping the kid at all. 

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

« on: February 12, 2012, 07:10:59 PM »

Slocum deserves at least another year.  He needs to upgrade the recruiting expecially recruiting bigs.  The program is at least competitive and they put a good beating on one of the programs that I truly hate Valpo..they were nothing but cheaters in the other conference with us.  Are we a Butler, or a CSU, no.  Will we ever be,,,probably not...as long as we are spending low budget bucks it will be a crap shoot for us.

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

« on: February 10, 2012, 03:09:38 PM »

I have a question...all our bigs are very slight in stature, do we try to get them to bulk up? Or is that a basketball no no.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Coaches defend YSU WR recruit

« on: February 08, 2012, 07:30:53 PM »

I think Tressel recruited a guy named Brown...Decent RB...went to Canton Mckinley, think he was in a car on a drive by shooting where a kid got murdered...Tressel took a chance the rest was history.  I am fuzzy on the details so if anybody has any more info...please enlighten us.

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

« on: February 08, 2012, 07:25:32 PM »

There is a big difference from stealing and having a few to many...

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU defensive coordinator leaves

« on: February 03, 2012, 10:10:58 PM »

Agreed, YSU45 is correct on his analysis.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Men's basketball at UIC - Thursday 8 p.m.

« on: February 02, 2012, 09:50:00 PM »

Turned if off...with like 3mins to play ...totally disappointed!

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Non YSU Sports / Re: Jim Tressel accepts admin job at Akron

« on: February 02, 2012, 09:48:18 PM »

He got his masters and I think his first coaching job there when Jim Dennison was HC.  YSU, couldnt afford him and its probably for the better he didnt come back.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU defensive coordinator leaves

« on: February 02, 2012, 06:42:40 PM »