We are now under the one week count down until the 2012 season opener and Paul Chryst’s debut as the PITT Panther Head Coach. The Youngstown State Penguins come into Heinz Field Saturday at 6:00 pm for an out of conference and out of division game. Please try to make it to the stadium, Paul needs you to be there.
Here is the .pdf of the 2012 media guide for YSU. They are in the Missouri Valley Conference of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivison (FCS), as opposed to our being in the famed Big East of the BCS division.
YSU has an interesting coaching staff with some familiar names on it. The Head Coach is Eric Wolford who has “has moved the Penguins back into postseason contention and is showing the nation that the program is on the cusp of returning to national prominance.” Those are YSU’s words, not mine. I would have spelled ‘prominence’ correctly. He is married to Melinda Wolford and has two children.
Their Ass’t HC and DL coach is PITT alumni Tom Sims; their WR coach is Andre’ Coleman the former NFL receiver; their OLB coach is one of the famous Stoops boys, Ron Stoops, jr and their Cornerbacks coach is Glenn Davis who has been dead for seven years.
