5 years is long enough. Why believe "next year" will be the year YSU turns the corner, when we have been hearing that since 2011? YSU is losing fans left and right. People who buy tickets, pay for concessions at games, pay to park. If you have a Facebook account, check out the comments on the YSU Football Alumni page. I have been to the page a few times in the past, and the overwhelming consensus was former players do not like Wolford. I've also read people post here on this board if Wolford is kept on, they will not attend any more games. And, there was last weeks article by Scalzo, where he mentioned receiving multiple e-mails and comments from people who say they have stopped going to games, and will not return again until Wolford is replaced.
As far as I'm concerned, the so called "weenie games" and the "money game" do not count in Wolf's record. The exception is the win in 2012 at PITT. Losses in the "money game" ought not count against the coach, and the so called "weenie games out not count in a true evaluation of on field success. Especially with YSU not even playing the best teams from the NEC or Pioneer in most of these OOC games at home. So, here is the record over the past 5 years, with this method:
2010... 1-7
2011... 4-4
2012... 5-4
2013 ... 5-3
2014... 4-4
OVERALL: 19-23
Wolford did not inherit a program that was a perennial playoff participant like Heacock, but he also did not inherit a program like Indiana State. 5 years is plenty of time. Wolford has changed assistant coaches several times. Players have come and gone. Yet, the team keeps making the same mistakes year after year after year. Yes, players play the game, but there are obviously things being done that result in the kind of mistakes that keep a team from going to the playoffs, and team from finding a way each of the past 4 years to miss the playoffs by one game.
The MVFC has gotten stronger with the addition of NDSU and SDSU. But, only NDSU has been dominant, and that is just these past 4 seasons. Heacock was 2-0 against NDSU. Other programs now appear to be doing what is needed to raise their level of play. Indy State is in the playoffs for 1st time since the 80's, and beat YSU in Youngstown. NDSU did not waltz through the MVFC this season. They beat WIU 17-10, by scoring 14pts in the 4th qtr. Lost 23-3 at UNI. Trailed SDSU 10-6 at halftime. Early in the 3rd qtr, SIU only trailed 17-10. Then, YSU, with nothing to lose and everything to gain, went into the Fargo Dome and was never in the game. 31-0 before YSU finally scored with about 5 minutes left in 3rd qtr. Worse, it was obvious the game was over after the 1st qtr in terms of which team was going to win.
YSU lost at home to WIU and Indy State this year. Win just 1 of those games, and YSU is in the playoffs. Last year, there was the loss at UNI. In 2012, it was a home loss to SIU during the 0-4 October. In 2011, it was another home loss, in the final game of the year against last place Missouri State. Then there was the 4 game losing streak in 2012, and ending the season on 3 game losing streaks in 2013 and 2014.
