"It is funny to me that:
- Coach Wolf gets on the hot seat after continued progress season after season...pressure from fans and administration.
- He continually improves the team (yes, I understand the lack of playoffs...but my eyes see improvement we were losing games on the last play in year 3. Did he win to quickly and thus 7-5 in year 5 was a bad thing?
- Less fans in the stands (they don't like the coach and its been cold outside of September)
- No playoffs and the staff gets the ax."
Z, what I don't find funny or progress is the fact that his teams went on losing streaks in each of the last 3 seasons that cost him the playoffs. If that's progress, YSU should do away with its football program.
What I don't find funny or progress is the fact that his failure to develop players is the most glaring weakness of his legacy. Yes, they weren't losing on the last play. They just failed to step up when the program NEEDED a single win. Multiple times, in multiple years and in multiple games.
What I don't find funny or progress is the fact that less people in the stands had more to do with his lack of winning a big game than who HE is. Inevitably each year fans knew there would be month where YSU would go 0-fer. Regardless of how people feel about Eric Wolford's personality, if he won that 1 or 2 games that he needed to each year, this wouldn't be a discussion. He would still be the head coach.
For the one-millionth time, YSU under Eric Wolford did not progress, nor did it improve as a whole. When you make the same mistakes every year, lose 3 straight games every year, fail to adjust during games, etc., you get removed. That is the nature of the beast.