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Disappointed YSU fan wants to see a change

Fanfare:

I have been a YSU football and basketball fan since 1959, my freshman year at YSU.

Memories of a full Beeghly Center and a capacity crowd at Stambaugh Stadium seem so long ago and appear unlikely to return under the present staff.

I realize that we have had many injuries this season. It was at the Southern Illinois game that it hit me how far our football program has fallen in the last eight years.

I think YSU and its loyal fans should take the position of Barack Obama — it’s time for a change, eight years is enough.

We play the OSU, Penn State and Pitts of the world and we still can’t recruit local talent, especially from the larger public and parochial high schools.

We’re not competitive in the Missouri Valley Football Conference where at one time we may have been competitive in the MAC but were snubbed in favor of Buffalo.

Attaining the playoffs seems remote. We used to have dominate running backs like Tamron Smith who I can still see running through the Citidal in the early 1990s playoffs.

Current players are quitting the program. It seems strange to me that young men 17 to 22 years old would take this route if there were not some underlying reason.

We are playing the big schools in a hard to relate to conference but we still cannot fill the seats at Stambaugh Stadium.

I would like to hear the opinions of other loyal Penguins’ fans.

M. Mondora

Canfield