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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Portal Coming and Going

« on: November 21, 2024, 06:28:59 PM »

Hey everyone... Rather than starting a separate thread, I wanted to link you to a Twitter/X thread documenting all of our 2025 recruiting class commitments.

We are up to 14 commits thus far, including two very impressive ones that committed at the start of the week.

1. Jussiah Williams - A 3 Star Safety from Dayton that had 24 FBS offers, including offers to Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Pitt, and Wisconsin. https://247sports.com/Player/jussiah-williams-west-46140286/

2. Jackson Wiley - A 3 Star WR from Lewis Center that had 12 FBS offers, including Coastal Carolina, Kentucky, and a batch of MAC schools. https://247sports.com/player/jackson-wiley-46134578/

Link to Recruiting Thread: https://x.com/WeAreYoungstown/status/1859571544210485678

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The Founder of this message board has died

« on: November 18, 2024, 01:12:52 PM »

May he rest in peace. Thank you for your love and support for YSU and for setting up this message board in the first place. I am sure thousands have posted on this site over the years!

Moving forward, who are the remaining moderators on this website? Will we be able to salvage this moving forward? If not, one thought I had was to create a YSU Penguins subreddit on reddit.com which we could use moving forward if this website ends up going away. We definitely need a message board like this for our fan base and would be happy to help moderate with others a subreddit group for us if we need to go that route.

For those of you who do not know reddit, it is a massive message board website. Each subreddit is its own individual community. There is a big Youngstown subreddit out there right now anyhow.

Let us know so we can start planning accordingly!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Illinois State

« on: October 31, 2024, 07:06:19 AM »

The happiness that we feel after the victory on Saturday obscures the fact that this is the worst defense in the history of Youngstown State University. Can we outscore Illinois State? Well we did outscore North Dakota. But doing that each week, especially on the road in the MVFC, seems unrealistic.

It says a lot about Illinois State's defense then as they are ranked 109 in the FCS in total defense. YSU is at 94th.
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fcs/current/team/22/p2

This is a very tight series, so another tight game between these two teams would not surprise me at all. Last two games in the series, both YSU wins, were won by the Penguins in the final 10 seconds.

Another great podcast from the former players/coaches last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVYWGVE200

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: NDU week

« on: October 24, 2024, 06:57:20 AM »

The guys on the Penguin Football Podcast had a good discussion on North Dakota last night:
https://www.youtube.com/live/r64Gj5RewPk?si=p6puwJYL_1iWiKkF

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Beeghly facilities upgrade

« on: October 04, 2024, 07:22:48 PM »

Here were some pix from volleyball last week:
https://x.com/YSUVolleyball/status/1839780455043969429

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Beeghly facilities upgrade

« on: September 19, 2024, 08:14:52 PM »

This was before all the chairbacks were installed on the top of the one side, but Malutic posted this on X:

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: parity?

« on: September 14, 2024, 10:47:51 AM »

Speaking of Kent

5. Kent State v. No. 7 Tennessee: $1.35 million
Kent State is racking up the earnings this year and honestly, good for them. The Golden Flashes were paid $1.1 million to lose 55-24 to Pittsburgh in Week 2 and will get $1.6 million when they travel to No. 8 Penn State next week. All said, Kent State will earn just over $4 million to start 0-4 this season.

They have no choice. Their football budget is nearly double that of YSU's:

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Duquesne game

« on: September 14, 2024, 07:38:47 AM »

Game Day and not much chatter .  Go Guins!!!

We need to see a complete 4 quarters this week. The second half of Nova and Valpo have been encouraging, but thus far the 2nd quarter in particular we have looked rough. Beautiful weather and no Ohio State. Hoping for a nice crowd and a big win!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Villanova Game Week!!!

« on: August 31, 2024, 04:13:13 PM »

Back-to-back road losses at a Top 10 Villanova. Let’s compare the two…

2023: Villanova scores 45 and wins by 17
2024: Villanova scores 24 and wins by 7

2023: Villanova passes for 275 yards
2024: Villanova passes for 90 yards

2023: Villanova rushes for 191 yards
2024: Villanova rushes for 246 yards

I posed this thought on social media and feel it worth posing on here too… We lost by 7 on the road at Villanova and we turned it over 3 times. If Beau doesn’t turn the ball over, it is hard to believe we don’t send that game to OT at a minimum. My point is for as bad as we looked at times, and we did in portions of the 2nd and 3rd quarter as I was in attendance in Philly, we still had an opportunity to tie the #5 team in the final minute with an entirely new D and a ton of uncertainty at QB. We played them much tougher than last year as well.

We have a lot of work ahead, but I was certainly encouraged by this squads effort, especially after trailing 24-3 in the third quarter.

Go YSU

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Villanova Game Week!!!

« on: August 26, 2024, 05:42:00 PM »

If anyone is interested, some of us from this message board had a Twitter Space last night to preview the 2024 season and Villanova. If anyone is interested, you can listen here.

https://x.com/i/spaces/1BRKjwaVrjVGw

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Villanova Game Week!!!

« on: August 25, 2024, 08:56:11 AM »

Any fans making the trip to Villanova?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU and Villanova Game Airing on Flosports

« on: August 23, 2024, 07:25:02 AM »

I was trying to see where the game will be aired. ESPN site is saying Flosports. I've never heard of it have any of you?

The CAA has a deal with FLOSports to broadcast all of their games. Unfortunately that means this game will not be streamed on ESPN+. The only way to watch it is to purchase a subscription from FLOSports, but I am not sure if you can purchase a single game or if you need to purchase an entire month. This is a CAA issue and not a YSU issue, as I know some of you will find blame with YSU for this one.

Anyhow I will be making the trip across PA to watch this one. Go YSU!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Starting QB

« on: August 20, 2024, 08:53:59 PM »

Coach Phillips on Jim Tressel's podcast. A great video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KudaeCmTMVg

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Starting QB

« on: August 18, 2024, 12:55:59 PM »

Although I got to the scrimmage a little late, Brungard seemed to get much of the #1 reps, while Shannon seemed to get a fair share with the #2’s (assuming that is where they were on depth chart). However, all the QB’s, including the Brecksville kid, we’re getting reps. I’d anticipate Brungard being the guy. Should we have issues moving the ball, I would expect them to give the others reps too.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Beeghly facilities upgrade

« on: August 15, 2024, 12:58:40 PM »

I agree.  Behind as usual.  Where is the sense of urgency with this athletic department?   Volleyball season is just weeks away.

They had workers in there removing seats and starting all the other work immediately after Spring Commencement. It is evident there were delays on the vendor side that would have delayed the installation. It appears things are on track to begin installing so it will be exciting to watch the progress in the coming weeks.