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Say hello to the new HC for Delaware St Football program!!!!!

Say hello to sub .500 football forever

Bobcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:02 pm Say hello to sub .500 football forever

And you know that how????

Bobcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:02 pm Say hello to sub .500 football forever

How is that worse than any other era at DSU?

dal4018 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:57 am

Bobcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:02 pm Say hello to sub .500 football forever

And you know that how????

It's a guess, of course. But it's just about a guarantee if they blow him out after one year. It's similar to what one sees in the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL; too-frequent changes in staff don't give a franchise leeway for developing a firm foundation.

SuperHornet wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 7:55 pm

dal4018 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:57 am

And you know that how????

It's a guess, of course. But it's just about a guarantee if they blow him out after one year. It's similar to what one sees in the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL; too-frequent changes in staff don't give a franchise leeway for developing a firm foundation.

Give him a chance

Mvemjsunpx wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 3:17 pm

Bobcat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:02 pm Say hello to sub .500 football forever

How is that worse than any other era at DSU?

Fill up their financial coffers and things should change.

Delaware State has been really bad for a long time but it wasn't always that way. In 1980 a Neil Lomax Portland State team beat Delaware State 105-0. Joe Purzycki got that program turned around but only stayed 4 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Purzycki

College
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs NCAA#
Delaware State Hornets (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) (1981–1984)
1981 Delaware State 2–9 1–4 5th
1982 Delaware State 4–7 2–3 T–4th
1983 Delaware State 7–3–1 3–1 2nd
1984 Delaware State 8–2 3–1 2nd

Bill Collick followed up Purzycki and had some great years at Del State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_ ... s_football

A book was written about Delaware State AD Nelson Townsend hiring Purzycki

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/431 ... ish-prince

n November of 1980, Delaware State College lost a football game to Portland State University by the outrageous score of 105 to 0. The lopsided loss resulted in the Hornets being mocked by national broadcasters, pitied by their own fans, and drew the ire of Delaware State President Dr. Luna Mishoe. Mishoe ordered his athletic director Nelson Townsend to find a coach who could lead Delaware State football out of the hole they were in. Townsend decided to hire a coach named Joe Purzycki. Purzycki was well known throughout the state of Delaware. He had been an all-American football player at the University of Delaware and had won a championship at one of the largest high schools in the state. He was young, charismatic, and in Townsend’s eyes the perfect man for the job. There was only one problem. He was white. Delaware State is one of dozens of Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in America. No HBCU had ever hired a white head football coach until Townsend hired Purzycki in 1981. The news was not well received. Townsend got an idea of how controversial his decision was after the hiring was announced and a player yelled at him, “you sold us out Townsend! You gave it to the white people!” Questions at Purzycki's introductory press conference centered on race and why Delaware State was affording a white man this opportunity. Purzycki kept saying he only wanted to be a football coach but it was too late for that. He had become, in the words of one writer, a social experiment and he quickly found out what it was like to be a minority. “It’s YOU who is going to have see everyone else’s side of things,” Townsend told Purzycki, “and it’s not going to be easy.” Students staged angry protests and the school paper derisively referred to Purzycki as “the Polish Prince.” Vandals broke into his office and destroyed it, he received death threats, and the brakes on a car he borrowed from the school failed. 17 players quit the team and some people from within the school (and occasionally players from within the team) worked to undermine his effort to get the program on track. Opposing crowds, teams, and coaches were openly hostile. Mr. Townsend and the Polish Prince tells the inside story of how Townsend mentored Purzycki and helped guide him through the tough times as the duo built a relationship of trust that grew into a strong friendship. The duo used mutual respect, common sense, and no small amount of humor to withstand controversies big and small. Townsend's decision to hire Purzycki ultimately placed Delaware State on a path of football success unimaginable when they first teamed up. In the book, Purzycki reflects on his youth, spent in an all-white neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. He had grown up around people who didn’t always have the highest opinion of African Americans and as a kid, he had come to accept their views as the way things were. It was his participation in sports, playing with and against black athletes in high school and college, that opened the door to his own eventual personal belief that we are all more alike than we think. This is a story about two men who took a huge chance together. And it is a story about the students, student-athletes, teachers, administrators, and fans at Delaware State in the early 1980s. It’s a story of intolerance becoming tolerant. It’s a story of something unacceptable becoming accepted. It’s a story about losing that became a story about winning. It has origins at a football game on a damp night in the Pacific Northwest in November of 1980, and on a hot night in Newark, New Jersey during the riots that scarred that city in July of 1967. It’s a story of how sometimes something that begins at rock bottom can end up on the mountain top.

Why is a Sacramento state quarterback transfer in Dover, Delaware?

Because he transferred to Delaware state

Desean Jackson is not a smart guy and he knows even less about accountability than almost anyone in the NFL.

I'm sure that team will be disciplined and not beat itself

Bobcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 10:57 am Desean Jackson is not a smart guy and he knows even less about accountability than almost anyone in the NFL.

I'm sure that team will be disciplined and not beat itself

Talent has a way of making coaches appear smarter

Any average coach can call an average play, but it is talent that takes it all the way

Delaware State gets Oregon WR transfer

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2025/0 ... state.html



Former Oregon receiver Ryan Pellum will continue his career in the MEAC.

Pellum, who left UO prior to the end of last season, announced his commitment to Delaware State on Wednesday. He has four years of eligibility remaining to play for formerHe was ranked No. 145 overall and No. 26 among receivers in the class of 2024.

He was arrested in Springfield in January on charges of assault with use of a firearm after allegedly pistol-whipping a person in Long Beach, California, on Christmas Day.

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Fri Aug 15, 2025 3:45 am Delaware State gets Oregon WR transfer

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2025/0 ... state.html



Former Oregon receiver Ryan Pellum will continue his career in the MEAC.

Pellum, who left UO prior to the end of last season, announced his commitment to Delaware State on Wednesday. He has four years of eligibility remaining to play for formerHe was ranked No. 145 overall and No. 26 among receivers in the class of 2024.

He was arrested in Springfield in January on charges of assault with use of a firearm after allegedly pistol-whipping a person in Long Beach, California, on Christmas Day.

Word on the street is that Lanning tried to steer him towards Portland State, but Barnum wasn't interested. I guess we do have standards here.

JALMOND wrote: ↑Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:55 am

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Fri Aug 15, 2025 3:45 am Delaware State gets Oregon WR transfer

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2025/0 ... state.html



Former Oregon receiver Ryan Pellum will continue his career in the MEAC.

Pellum, who left UO prior to the end of last season, announced his commitment to Delaware State on Wednesday. He has four years of eligibility remaining to play for formerHe was ranked No. 145 overall and No. 26 among receivers in the class of 2024.

He was arrested in Springfield in January on charges of assault with use of a firearm after allegedly pistol-whipping a person in Long Beach, California, on Christmas Day.

Word on the street is that Lanning tried to steer him towards Portland State, but Barnum wasn't interested. I guess we do have standards here.

Jackson giving the kid another chance, we don’t know the circumstances of the incident do we ?

Delaware will host Delaware State in the opener August 28th

The DeSean Jackson era has begun.

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Honestly, they didn't look too terrible.

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DSUrocks07 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:16 am The DeSean Jackson era has begun.

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Honestly, they didn't look too terrible.

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Pretty much every fan who commented on the game said Delaware State looked improved over past years

Defense more physical and the QB looked decent

Albany travels to Dover this Saturday and I’m expecting Del State to put up a good fight

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 4:10 am

DSUrocks07 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:16 am The DeSean Jackson era has begun.

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Honestly, they didn't look too terrible.

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Pretty much every fan who commented on the game said Delaware State looked improved over past years

Defense more physical and the QB looked decent

Albany travels to Dover this Saturday and I’m expecting Del State to put up a good fight

Delaware State beats CAA Albany … that’s a big deal for that program as nobody would’ve believed that last year

Enter DeSean Jackson
smart coaches know it’s mostly about talent

.500 football

I guess if its good enough for the Big Sky its good enough for the CAA

Delaware State beat NC Central 35-26 in Durham for the first time since 1977

They are very good at running the football

QB Bennet has been great

Key to the game was early in the fourth quarter Delaware St with the ball down by about four points. They had a fourth down and one on their own 18 yard line and they don’t punt, they handed off and got the first down and then after they were playing down hill

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 6:17 pm Delaware State beat NC Central 35-26 in Durham for the first time since 1977

They are very good at running the football

QB Bennet has been great

Key to the game was early in the fourth quarter Delaware St with the ball down by about four points. They had a fourth down and one on their own 18 yard line and they don’t punt, they handed off and got the first down and then after they were playing down hill

Yes they have a potent rushing attack I saw the stats they produced D2 Southern Connecticut St they had me thinking of Nebraska from the '70s.

dal4018 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:22 pm

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 6:17 pm Delaware State beat NC Central 35-26 in Durham for the first time since 1977

They are very good at running the football

QB Bennet has been great

Key to the game was early in the fourth quarter Delaware St with the ball down by about four points. They had a fourth down and one on their own 18 yard line and they don’t punt, they handed off and got the first down and then after they were playing down hill

Yes they have a potent rushing attack I saw the stats they produced D2 Southern Connecticut St they had me thinking of Nebraska from the '70s.

Jarvis Redwine

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:14 am

dal4018 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:22 pm
Yes they have a potent rushing attack I saw the stats they produced D2 Southern Connecticut St they had me thinking of Nebraska from the '70s.

Jarvis Redwine

Yes he went nuts in that game

dal4018 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 11:15 am

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:14 am

Jarvis Redwine

Yes he went nuts in that game

He played for Nebraska in the 70s

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:54 pm

dal4018 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 11:15 am

Yes he went nuts in that game

He played for Nebraska in the 70s

Yes he did I remember him now he came after IM Hipp I think?????

dal4018 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:40 am

Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:54 pm

He played for Nebraska in the 70s

Yes he did I remember him now he came after IM Hipp I think?????

IM Hipp, another great name! I definitely remember him, but not sure if he was before or after Redwine.

But probably after, because people always feel better about themselves after some Redwine