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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Phillips comments on a radio program

« on: March 03, 2020, 12:10:59 PM »

 Grossetti is out at strength and conditioning coach. Phillips has told some close friends that Crenshaw is at least a year away as a QB.   He was not recruited as a QB at the FBS level, much work needs to be done with ability to throw the ball effectively.  He won't be here til the fall.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Assistant Coaches

« on: February 26, 2020, 07:31:33 AM »

   Very surprised that Phillips kept Peterson.  Offensive line was supposed to be a strength last year, and it was awful.  Peterson also can't keep a job, journeyman coach.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Justus Reed- Transfer Portal

« on: February 26, 2020, 07:29:49 AM »

  Hearing 50/50 Reed may stay.  Only real FBS offer is Virginia Tech.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 13, 2020, 03:08:14 PM »

  We all hope, or at least most of are rooting for Phillips to win.  But come on, Tressel is not beyond shady dealings.

Phillips was 5th out of 7 when the committee interviewed.  It was tim Tyrrell's job, Don Treadwell next, then Shane Montgomery.

Tressel and Sebo together in Florida, Sebo writes the check.  Tressel makes the hire.  It's over now, let's hope Tressel made the right call.  Yes, I am skeptical and think a running backs coach from Cincinnati, who was out of football for 7 years is going to struggle.

 Phillips I think is average, we need more than average to turn this ship around.  Just my opinion.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Assistant Coaches

« on: February 11, 2020, 11:31:02 AM »

  DC looks like a very solid hire, impressive.  He has done good work at John Carroll.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: History has not been kind to new YSU football coaches

« on: February 10, 2020, 04:00:52 PM »

  Interesting read.  Heacock and Wolford fired after winning seasons.  I think YSU decided to part ways with Heacock when he was 3-5, and then won the last 3 games.

 Heacock's downfall was an 0-9 record vs UNI.   

Asking Phillips to go 6-5 is asking a lot with what is returning, and a tougher schedule than last year.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 09, 2020, 09:47:25 PM »

Chief is right, Strollo is a clown.  YSU has a small time vision. 

But, Tressel 💯 hired Phillips.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 09, 2020, 01:18:33 AM »

D coordinator coming from John Carroll.  Peterson the O line coach and Grosetti the strength coach only holdovers from Pelini staff.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 07, 2020, 01:52:31 PM »

 Northcoast no sham, these are all facts:
1. Tressel left for Florida last Saturday, all week staying at the home of Bob Sebo who pushed hard for Doug Phillips. Sebo is making a significant gift to YSU.
2. Phillips was not in top three as of Wednesday night.  He did interview last weekend in Canton, and the committee did not make the cut.
3. Tressel stepped in and said we are hiring Phillips.
4. Phillips was out of football for seven years, most recently running backs coach at Cincinnati.  Never a coordinator.

Now this is opinion:  If Tressel was going to step in, he could have at least been part of the interview process in Canton and not vacationing in Florida.  Another opinion, Phillips in way over his head, this has disaster written all over it.

Also hearing staff will be mostly grad assistants and young guys from Cincinnati and Iowa State. We will see if this is accurate.  I am sure Phillips will hire his brother who is a high school coach at Stow.

I'm done til spring ball. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 07, 2020, 10:05:47 AM »

Pete you are correct.  Just heard that Tressel who has been in Florida since last Saturday has been staying with Sebo at his home.   That he and his wife Ellen are there with Sebo and his wife.  This smells really bad.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 07, 2020, 09:02:03 AM »

  Was blindsided by this one.   I was all in on Tyrrell, he had head coaching experience and was a winner.  Doug Phillips has done nothing to deserve this job.   The job was certainly bought for him.  Very disappointed in Tressel, this was all his decision.

I hope Phillips proves me wrong, and I will support him and the program.  But I can't see it, also from what I remember while coaching high school, sorta boring and nerdy.  I don't see him exciting the fan base.

Yes Tressel a great football mind, but he was the one who hired John Robic, although the committee he put together had Robic near the bottom of the candidate list.  Robic was a bust and he got the job because Larry Brown and John Calipari bought him that job.  That is a fact.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 06, 2020, 10:44:50 PM »

Bob Sebo bought Phillips the job.  This was all Tressel decision.  Don’t like it at all.  Phillips is bland and has done nothing to deserve the job.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The next YSU Head Football Coach

« on: February 06, 2020, 11:38:16 AM »

I am hearing Saturday for sure.  Don't know when or where.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The Gerry Faust era I mean Tim Tyrrell era begins the joke is on us!

« on: February 06, 2020, 08:21:06 AM »

  It can't be worse than the Pelini era.  Losing to Butler, 2-6 conference record this past year.  Let's be real, the Pelini era was a bust.  I give him all the credit in 2016, and the win at E. Washington one of the best in school history.  Other than that year, garbage.

Let's give Tyrrell a chance and support him.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The next YSU Head Football Coach

« on: February 06, 2020, 08:18:42 AM »

YSUGO, you are both comical and delusional.  Anyone who thinks Montgomery deserved to be the head coach is not looking at the big picture.  He was 17-31 as a head coach at Miami, including a pair of 2-10 seasons.  Terry Hoeppner the coach prior to Montgomery had 7 straight winning seasons before leaving for Indiana.  Montgomery took a winning program and ran it into the gutter.

He did a good job at YSU under Wolford.  As for James Madison he walked into a perfect situation, they were loaded with offensive talent, a veteran QB and offensive minded head coach.  James Madison and ND State were so much better than anyone in FCS, I think even without the great Shane Montgomery that JMU would have been in the title game.

Montgomery is a good assistant coach, he showed nothing as a head coach, zero.  He is like Jon Heacock, but not as good as Heacock.  Being an assistant is where he belongs, not running the entire program.