THE IUP Football Thread

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Any bets when The Personalities will be let out the Looney Bin and show up to “talk ball”.

Immediately after IUP's first loss.

You have to realize they are talking about the game within the game ... within the game. Mind bomb.

[IUPNation]

Any bets when The Personalities will be let out the Looney Bin and show up to “talk ball”.

[ShoNuff]

Edit that ... Jack just said on the radio it's now set to start at 7 p.m. I'd like to check it out but not positive.


Jack also said Dayjure Stewart practiced in pads yesterday after getting the green light to return.

HIGHLY doubt he is at 100%. Man....but happy he is back practicing.

[iupgroundhog]

Edit that ... Jack just said on the radio it's now set to start at 7 p.m. I'd like to check it out but not positive.


Jack also said Dayjure Stewart practiced in pads yesterday after getting the green light to return.

Wow! I thought that might happen. We'll see how he progresses.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I guess we'll have more information about the team after this one. Are you going?

Edit that ... Jack just said on the radio it's now set to start at 7 p.m. I'd like to check it out but not positive.


Jack also said Dayjure Stewart practiced in pads yesterday after getting the green light to return.

[iupgroundhog]

Tomorrow's scrimmage starts at 6 p.m. and is open to the public.

I guess we'll have more information about the team after this one. Are you going?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Tomorrow's scrimmage starts at 6 p.m. and is open to the public.

[Fightingscot82]

Do you have a program where kids in States that touch PA are considered in state? KS does probably due to lack of population. It's been in place for a decade or so. Has helped with overall and certainly helped spread scholly dollars in athletics

It wasn't allowed until about 5 years ago and to be honest, for an unknown reason not many schools have embraced it. Most likely just short-sighted thinking that they're leaving out of state tuition revenue on the table.

Slippery Rock has a program that if an out of state applicant has a 3.0 GPA (which is almost everyone) they can get tuition for 5% above in-state. Its very popular with athletics as you can imagine.

[Ship69]

Do you have a program where kids in States that touch PA are considered in state? KS does probably due to lack of population. It's been in place for a decade or so. Has helped with overall and certainly helped spread scholly dollars in athletics

Some schools have started giving tuition breaks to certain out-of-state areas. At Shippensburg, we're giving breaks to certain counties in Maryland, which is close to us, and are also trying to pull more kids from New Jersey, where costs are higher than in Pa. and there aren't a lot of D2 schools. This is primarily being done to boost school enrollment as a whole, but it certainly shouldn't hurt athletics.

[Wallst]

Remember our state school programs raise their own scholarship money (real money).

Out-of-state kids cost more and take a bigger slice of the coin.


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Do you have a program where kids in States that touch PA are considered in state? KS does probably due to lack of population. It's been in place for a decade or so. Has helped with overall and certainly helped spread scholly dollars in athletics

[IUPNation]

On this day in 1984 (one of the best years ever) …the #1 song in America was…..wait for it…….Ghostbusters. I thought many of you would love to know that since you loved when the band played it

I was 17 and in the middle of completing the Summer Post Session at IUP..essentially wrapping up my 9 week first run as a Summer/January Freshman.

[Ship69]

High School QBs cost money -- especially the coveted ones. That's money that will be sitting on the sidelines for 1-2 years in the vast majority of cases (if you're lucky and they actually stay).

I think that's been at the root of IUP's philosophy. Not to mention this isn't the old days of Johnny Stud QB coming here and sitting for maybe several years - all the while Uncle Jimbo is telling him he should have been at Auburn. Those days are gone.

So, do you want money invested (and tied up) in a high school QB to languish for a couple years (and maybe stay if you're lucky) or would you rather spend it on a play-right-now QB?

Reality is other than the rare Bryan Eyerman types, true freshmen aren't anywhere close to being ready to play.

I'd love to get two years out of these guys but other than that have no issues with Tort's approach. It's actually the only position they've really done this, too. That program is largely home grown.

It works out if you're in a good position such as IUP and can target the good transfers. Obviously these players have to spend their first year or two somewhere before they become transfer nuggets. The sad thing about football now (and basketball, too, for that matter) is that amount of time schools lower on the totem pole spend paying for the development of high school players, only to see the top dogs whisk them away.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I was hoping to see McAninch come to Pitt. Kid had some impressive offers makes me wonder what Bemidji States pitch was? It worked.

agree with you 100% that if SR1 wants to fo anything on a national scale they need to recruit outside of their current area and comfort zone. Before our new coach took over we never hit Iowa or MN now we do along with a pipeline from a school on FL. With social media and some good recruiting I think IUP Sheperd and a couple others in SR1 could easily branch out.

Remember our state school programs raise their own scholarship money (real money).

Out-of-state kids cost more and take a bigger slice of the coin.


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[IUPbigINDIANS]

yeah, he was probably the closest in a string of failures. Remember Eddie $tocket, ADP, very short lived Hankins, to name a few

$tockett was so money

[ironmaniup]

I think they were hoping Davis from Steubenville was going to be the guy they’d develop, but he never really got there. He’d probably argue he never had the opportunity to get where he needed to be but I have to believe if he showed them more than he did they wouldn’t have gone out and gotten Harry Football.

yeah, he was probably the closest in a string of failures. Remember Eddie $tocket, ADP, very short lived Hankins, to name a few