I agree 5 HL Titles in a season is an excellent accomplishment. Having said that, 3 of the titles were in track and field, and 1 in CC. Of those 4 titles, 3 were won by the women's team(Women's CC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track). All this does is confirm what most who follow YSU athletics already know. Over the past 20 years, the job Brian Gorby, his staff and athletes have done surpasses that by ANY other program, including football. I say this, because T&F and CC have been consistently at the top of their conferences for a much longer time. The 5th HL Title was won by women's tennis. Congrats women's tennis team!
Neither the Mid-Con or HL are powerhouse conferences for CC or T&F, but YSU also does not devote the resources to T&F and CC that are devoted even by schools in the MAC. And, YSU has had some athletes who have been able to be competitve against the top T@F or CC athletes in all of D1. That is likely to continue given YSU now having a brand new outdoor track in addition to WATTS.
What football accomplished under Tressel was amazing, and brought the school alot of attention, and helped the entire community. The run women's basketball had in the 90's and 2000 under Coach D was also outstanding. Each of those programs has dropped off in terms of on field/on court success, while CC and T&F keep going.
Let's look at the other programs though for this season:
Mens CC - Team 2nd...Eric Rupe Individual Champion
Baseball - currently 4-13...5th of 6 teams
Softball : 11-8, tie 3rd, but 4th seed in tournament..currently 1-1 in tournament
Football (I know, not in HL) 5-3, tie 2nd, but 3rd after tie-breaker. Also lost final 3 games of regular season, 2 of which were at home
Men's Basketball: 6-10 in HL, tie 7th and lost in 1st round
Womens Basketball : 10-6, tie 3rd..lost in 2nd round
Womens Soccer: 2-5..7th of 8 teams ... lost 6-2 in 1st round of HL Tourn
Volleyball: 7-7..5th of 8 teams ... lost in 2nd round of Tourney
Men's Tennis: 1-5 in HL ... 6th of 7 teams
Women's Golf: 3rd of 7 teams in HL Tourn.. Aislynn Merling 2nd place in individual scoring (women's golf has had solid record of success in both Mid-con and HL)
Men's Golf: 3rd of 7 HL Tourn: ... Brian Yeo tie 5th....Brandon Pluchinsky tie 7th
Women's Swimming & Diving - 6th of 8 teams at HL Championships ... No Individual Event Champions