This loss was on the special teams. It's been only 2 years so give the staff and team some time. Don't expect miracles in two years. A bunch of you think you are top ranked coaches with your opinions. The wins and playoffs will come.
While I appreciate the rationality, I cannot agree. In two years our defense has done nothing outside of two games when we went to a basic box set. If I was seeing progress I would not be so upset, but yesterday just proved that we are relying on offense to win games, with a completely inept defense. Yesterday, we had a defender with about 1.5 yards of the SMS QB (and a slow QB at that), Their QB actually cocked his arm (never any intention to throw) and our defender broke away. I have a photo of it because I thought it was going to be a great sack photo. I mean their QB should have been knocked into the stands. There is no official that would expect a defender to stop that close.
Our special teams are completely non-coached. Have you seen a lane on any kick-off this season? We cannot tackle, so we work kick coverage in pairs, and every team breaks to the outside for a good 15-25 extra yards. Factor our lack of height and depth (speaking about kick-offs only here, punts are excellent), and we hand an already bad defense an impossible short-field situation. I would not even think Wolf was from Youngstown. Now we will all hear about these great recruits, and how this third class of frosh are "the best class yet". Then we have to start them, (because the best kids play) then we lose all of the current frosh, and once again find ourselves making allowances for lack of performance because of our youth. You cannot coach experience ...experience coaches you.
The tale of the tape for those of you who still think the defense is so bad.
Note below: Penelties and special teams kill YSU!! If the defense was so bad this game should have been a lot worse
Drive summary:
Youngstown St. 1 15:00 6:29 YSU20 11 80 TD
Missouri St. 1 08:27 0:37
YSU47 3 1 PUNT
Youngstown St. 1 07:50 3:27 YSU10 6 17 PUNT Missouri St. 1 04:23 2:40 MSU39 8 61 TD
Youngstown St. 1 01:43 1:09 YSU20 3 80 TD
Missouri St. 1 00:23 1:13 YSU10 4 -2 FG Youngstown St. 2 14:09 2:19 YSU34 3 -10 PUNT
Missouri St. 2 11:50 2:15 MSU38 7 57 FUMB
Youngstown St. 2 09:35 2:23 YSU27 6 16 PUNT Missouri St. 2 07:12 0:58 MSU20 3 8 PUNT
Youngstown St. 2 06:14 3:11 YSU46 6 54 TD
Missouri St. 2 03:03 2:23 MSU20 6 11 INT
Youngstown St. 2 00:40 0:28 MSU27 3 27 TD Missouri St. 2 00:04 0:04 MSU33 1 0 HALF
Missouri St. 3 14:54 1:32 MSU46 4 54 TD
Youngstown St. 3 13:22 2:38 YSU20 5 27 PUNT Missouri St. 3 10:44 4:57 MSU43 11 57 TD
Youngstown St. 3 05:47 2:02 YSU20 5 25 PUNT Missouri St. 3 03:45 2:48 MSU18 6 23 PUNT
Youngstown St. 3 00:57 6:29 YSU27 14 73 TD
Missouri St. 4 09:19 2:51 MSU40 9 60 TD
Youngstown St. 4 06:28 4:24 YSU31 8 27 PUNT Missouri St. 4 02:04 1:54 MSU36 9 64 TD
Youngstown St. 4 00:09 0:09 YSU27 2 18 HALF