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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 08, 2023, 06:18:26 AM »

That is true YSU go. The only thing I would add to that is that we are far from the only university in this situation. So something Hass to come of it because I have a feeling we are one of the majority.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 07, 2023, 05:52:10 PM »

we need to grab one of these half-backs unless we can convince one of the TE's to spend more time in the back. We need to hard-hitter behind QB.

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

« on: December 05, 2023, 08:57:47 AM »

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

Agreed. Unless any of you live in Columbus, you have no idea how many commercials feature players. It is non-stop for the more established businesses.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Football: 2024 and Beyond

« on: December 04, 2023, 07:46:52 AM »

So let us see what people think will be in store for YSU next season.

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

« on: December 04, 2023, 07:45:31 AM »

Im not gonna say DP is THE guy, because I don’t know if he is. But please stop with the “principal” or “plenty of D2/3 coaches” crap. You’re making yourselves look silly.  You act like we never went 33-28 over 4 years, and 21-24 in 4 of 5 years, or lost to Butler with not just a D2 high school principal, BUT rather a POWER 5 coach.  By your logic, we should have had 4-star recruits and back to back championships from 2014-2019 with said-type of coach.  Except, we had ALL of that.  And last I checked, BP doesn’t have an education degree nor did he ever coach at the D2/2 level.

Nice post.

I agree.

We should finish in the top 16 this year.  Let's say we finish 16th.  That puts us in the 88th percentile of all FCS teams.  We weren't competitive a few years ago. 


One last thing......I have a lot of respect for Bob Hannon's take with regard to FCS football.  He's exceptionally knowledgeable.  He not a casual fan by any means.  If you listen to his broadcasts he hints to everyone the talent depth and future of YSU football under Phillips and most of it is positive.

Everyone here should have known that when we played teams like USD and SDSU (both of them are still playing in the final we were unable to get pressure on their QB and as a result they had all day to throw and make our defense look incompetent.  We are a couple of players away and another year of development away from fixing this issue.  I didn't understand how people can think you flip a switch with a coach and you get the best team in the country that plays the way you remember in the 1990's.  It's going to take time to build it right.  And as I've said before, we've gotten better under Phillips every single year.

Good take.

Nobody "Makes Your Defense Look Incompetent". It is like a 100m run ... if the guy in the lane next to you is faster, all things being equal, he will win. Likewise if the team that you are playing is better ...they will win. We had a good runner stumble against us (SIU) and we think we are "the stuff". I mean, what else did we do this season?We had a handful of good players make good plays. The problem was that Villanova's entire team was better than ours. I said that I would give Phillips another year, with the COVID season and I will. Let's start another thread with what you see for 2024 and beyond.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Four Reach Double Figures in 71-57 Win at Robert Morris

« on: December 03, 2023, 10:45:01 AM »

Moon Township, Pa. – Four players scored in double figures as the Youngstown State men's basketball team won its second straight Horizon League game with a 71-57 defeat of Robert Morris on Saturday at the UPMC Events Center.

The Penguins improve to 5-3 overall and 2-0 in the Horizon League while the Colonials fall to 2-6 overall and 0-2 in league play.

DJ Burns posted his fourth double-double with 18 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Penguins. Brett Thompson scored 17 points with four assists while Ziggy Reid had 14 points and eight rebounds, and Brandon Rush added 12 points. The Penguins also made 10 3-pointers - three from Burns, Rush and Thompson each, and one from Reid.

Despite a hard fought first half with three ties and two lead changes, the Penguins opened the second half on a 13-4 scoring run to turn a two-point (30-28) halftime edge into an 11-point lead at the 16:15 mark.

Thompson scored five straight points with a jumper and 3-point to push the YSU lead to eight, 37-29, and his fast-break layup gave the Penguins a 41-32 lead at the 17:27 mark.

A fast-break layup by Burns, a jumper by Bryson Langdon, and a layup by Rush ballooned the lead to 15 points, 47-32, with 12:48 to go.

After a Colonials bucket, the Penguins scored 12 of the next 13 points to increase their lead to a game-high 24 points, 59-35, with 8:35 remaining.

Robert Morris whittled the lead down to 16, but two 3-pointers by Burns boosted the lead back to 20, 67-47, with 3:20 left.

The Colonials would not get any closer than 13 the rest of the way.

Youngstown State visits Mid-American Conference foe Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 6. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. in Athens, Ohio.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Yesterday's Oher Conference Games

« on: December 03, 2023, 10:38:50 AM »

South Dakota 34 over Sacramento State 24
South Dakota State 41 over Mercer 0
North Dakota State 35 over Montana State 34 (OT)
Idaho 20 over Southern Illinois 17 (OT)

SIU was a disappointment & NDSU struggled much more than I expected.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Championship Odds (11/28 Update)

« on: December 03, 2023, 08:39:04 AM »

Our odds are now equivalent to teams seeded #5 and #8

Hopefully this gives people perspective on how far we've actually come since Pelini left the program in shambles.

People need to think again about hating on Phillips.  We have a young team and a bright future (as long as we get a QB and fill some holes).  Much more difficult to replace holes when it comesnto the OL.and DL.  Hopefully we can go to the portal for some skill positions.

I'm 100% in on stopping the negativity on Phillips. We have a loot coming back and Brungard is going to be better than Davidson as will Harris outshine King. We should be 2 games better next year.

Brungard is NOT YSU's starter. I he is, then we will be worse than I already thought.

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

« on: November 28, 2023, 08:07:43 AM »

Strollo has always said that YSU will not be outbid. Note that in the 90's, the bid was not as important.  Later on, a high bid became an absolute must. However I think the process has been about the same for quite some time. As far as Duquesne, there is no doubt that they were not going to bid that amount. They probably did not even bid.

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

« on: November 27, 2023, 04:24:57 PM »

Delaware leaving CAA. Heading to CUSA in FBS land. Maybe we try to get in there!!

well when we become Villanova in basketball, CUSA will be happy to take us.

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

« on: November 27, 2023, 01:23:47 PM »

Not worthy of it's own thread but yesterday proved why auto-bids are a major joke.

Drake wins the Pioneer and loses to a third place team from another league 66-3.

Duquesne wins the NEC and gets bounced by a team that was the fifth or sixth team to get in from another league 40-7.

I am not bashing these teams or leagues, I'm sure that they look forward to the chance to play, but that just is not reality. Giving these leagues a spot is keeping another deserving team at home. Play-offs should be about the 24 best teams.

There was 10 auto bids. 6 of the 6 that played Saturday lost!!

Austin Peay - ASUN-WAC (UAC)
Gardner Web - Big South-OVC
Duquesne - NEC
Lafayette - Patriot
Drake - Pioneer
Nichols - Southland

4 other auto bids are seeded

16 teams left all from 4 conferences. MVFC, SoCon, Big Sky, and CAA.

Incarnate Word is Southland. They are very good. Lafayette played very well lost on the last  few seconds.

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

« on: November 27, 2023, 01:20:30 PM »

Strollo bid 20k seats. I bet it is about half the selling price, so that would be about $10 x 20k or $200,000 we paid the NCAA to host. Does not matter how many people actually show, we still owe. I doubt we have ever recovered our payout, even in the 90's. Believe me, He bought us into the post-season. I have to respect that.

It honestly felt like more than 3800 were in the stands. I was going to guess closer to 5k.

Anyway don't get too down on the attendance figures Thanksgiving weekend is just a bad weekend for small college football. I've been going to Mount Union playoff games for years, and thanksgiving weekend is Always sparsely attended compared to the rest of their games.

It's a combination of travel plans, students not being on campus etc.

Didn't look like 3800 on the tube..

I thought that 3800 was low! Thought that it was better to report a low number to save some bucks.

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

« on: November 27, 2023, 07:05:54 AM »

Great game.  Wonderful product on the field. Alot of talent on this team.  Davidson, Oliver, King all played a strong game.  D played well overall also.  Go Guins

Just not well-coached.

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

« on: November 23, 2023, 07:33:49 AM »

No problem IAA! Sidenote, I would love for the NEC to go up to 63 full scholarship equivalent.

What you are probably remembering is when the NEC recently went from 30 scholarship limit for football to the 45 they are today.

https://www.flofootball.com/articles/11205255-what-type-of-scholarships-do-division-ii-iii-and-fcs-football-players-get

right, I thought that was 3 years ago & this was the 4th year and I thought they then going to the full 63. I was just reading the original proposal. The conference teams back down their number of grants-in-aid to 18 and adds that to the 45 scholarships, bringing the total to 63. So in effect they do have their 63 scholarship equivalent. I do not think that grants-in-aid are based on sport, but rather income. So the schools probably do not have to use them for football players.

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

« on: November 22, 2023, 12:15:23 PM »

This is a different Duquesne team than in the past. I think they are full scholarship now.

They are in fact still partial scholarship FCS. NEC as a conference still only allows 45 scholarships per team. In order for that to change the entire NEC conference has to change. That was why Bryant and Robert Morris left for the Big South a couple years ago. They wanted to invest into full fcs scholarship football (63 total full time equivalent scholarships)

thanks...good info YO. I thought they were 3 years at 45, then jump to 63.