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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: baseball coaches

« on: June 30, 2024, 12:14:34 PM »

YSU has been selling a bill of goods for a quarter century with the “we have no money” BS. If they really wanted to improve the sports programs, they would find it. What we’re seeing is the results of low coach pay, low recruiting budgets, etc. it has created a product that is inferior in most sports. It’s sad because there is a huge alumni base that would love and support a better product on the field.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the MAC

« on: June 19, 2024, 07:47:46 PM »

Goodnews you are 100% correct. The CAA is a shell of itself. Almost embarrassing the teams that are now in that conference. If the Dakotas follow it could be the same for the MVFC.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the MAC

« on: June 19, 2024, 06:24:26 PM »

Sadly it would seem that FCS football is on death’s doorstep. Recent teams moving to FBS is only the beginning. Whether we want to believe it or not, the MAC is a better place for kids to play than FCS. It doesn’t matter that the top couple of teams in FCS could beat them regularly, it is D1 FBS. Period. FCS is basically a farm system at this point, with minimal interest except for a handful of schools.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU to Name Ethan Faulkner MBB Coach!

« on: March 31, 2024, 09:11:28 AM »

Realistically this level of D1 basketball is a stepping stone for coaches and players to bigger and better places. Watching the tournament teams have many kids that have transferred in from the mid majors and I’m sure the same is true for coaches.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ysu vs IUPUI

« on: January 07, 2024, 08:50:27 AM »

Sadly the FCS championship will have to compete with NFL tomorrow at 2:00. I can’t imagine what that game’s audience will be.

Very, very small. They should move it to the middle of bowl season. If you’re not an FCS fan or a fan of the 2 teams no one cares at this point.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ogletree Jailed on Domestic

« on: December 30, 2023, 05:06:47 PM »

Very true. It all depends on if they can make money off of you.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ogletree Jailed on Domestic

« on: December 30, 2023, 12:32:42 PM »

And a real good way to get yourself released and unemployed.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguins Announce December Signees

« on: December 28, 2023, 03:07:50 PM »

I love football, but the amount of people that will tune into the FCS championship game is far less than the amount that would watch NC-Duke basketball on a random Tuesday night.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguins Announce December Signees

« on: December 27, 2023, 05:15:10 PM »

Yes he does have issues to work out.  An NCAA basketball tournament berth and first round win would be more exposure for YSU than all 4 FCS titles combined. FCS is irrelevant to everyone but us fools that follow it for our schools.

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

« on: December 17, 2023, 03:16:13 PM »

Based on the fact that only 3,500 people cared that YSU had a home playoff game, changing conferences would only be an issue to people that hang on to “MVFC is the best conference “ as a source of pride.  Nova could end up in a similar situation. The CAA is a shadow of its former self. If they decided to move to the Patriot League, would any of the 2,915 fans that cared to go to the YSU playoff game really care? To me the mentioned attendance figures are proof of how irrelevant this level of football has become to the casual fans and even the students at the schools.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 12, 2023, 05:12:49 PM »

You can’t base the overall talent level off a a few one off kids that made it to the NFL. In my opinion the 93/94 teams would smack the crap out of the 23 team.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and the Portal

« on: December 12, 2023, 09:46:21 AM »

Dude, the 93 and 94 teams were littered with legit D1 players that either stayed home or transferred back. Tressel worked that like a master. There probably aren’t more than a small handful of kids on the current roster that could have played for those teams. FCS 2023 is D2 when compared to 1AA in the 90s

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: ndsu coach

« on: December 11, 2023, 05:42:18 PM »

All about money and opportunity. Per yahoo report he is making $400k at NDSU. Gotta be more at USC. And he’s getting a step up in the coaching ranks by moving from the minor leagues to the majors.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Now that you know the final 4 teams where are we in the top 25?

« on: December 11, 2023, 06:40:48 AM »

Hard to upgrade a coaching staff while paying very low salaries. No seasoned coach is coming here for $50k. You get what you pay for. During the Nova game they showed YSU coaches in the press box. They were all in their 20s if appeared. Maybe good coaches with potential
, but that was eye opening

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Now that you know the final 4 teams where are we in the top 25?

« on: December 10, 2023, 06:57:51 PM »

Probably around 15.