Josh Sinagoga is in his fourth year with the Youngstown State football program and Head Coach Doug Phillips. Sinagoga coaches the Penguins’ quarterbacks and serves as co-recruiting coordinator.
Singagoga worked with the quarterbacks in 2022 after coaching the wide receivers during his first two campaigns with the program.
YSU's quarterbacks had an outstanding campaign in 2022 as both Demeatric Crenshaw and Mitch Davidson started during the course of the year. Crenshaw started the first four games and tied a school record with five touchdown passes against Dayton. Davidson came on to start the final seven games of the season and became "Magic Mitch" rallying the Penguins for three fourth-quarter come-from-behind, late-game victories.
Davidson's improvement throughout the year was impressive. In his seven starts on the year, Davidson was 110-of-187 passes for 1,494 yards and 10 touchdowns with one interception. For the year, he was 119-of-201 for 1,613 yards and 12 scores with the one INT.
Davidson rallied YSU to last-minute wins at Western Illinois, at Illinois State and against Southern Illinois in the season finale. In each of those games, Davidson threw touchdown passes in the fourth quarter of those wins.
In the fall of 2021, newcomer Bryce Oliver led the group with 24 receptions for 266 yards and eight touchdowns. It was the most receiving touchdowns by a Penguins since 2011. CJ Charleston had a career-high 16 receptions while graduate transfer Jorge Portorreal had 15 grabs and a pair of TD catches. Overall, the wide receivers combined for all 11 Penguin receiving touchdowns. In the seven-game spring of 2021, wide receiver Natavious Payne led the team with 141 yards receiving on 12 catches.
Sinagoga spent the 2019 season as an offensive quality control coach. The Bearcats posted an 11-3 overall mark that was capped with an impressive 38-6 victory over Boston College in the Birmingham Bowl. UC played in its first-ever American Athletic Conference Championship Game against Memphis. The Bearcats were 7-1 in conference play and had a nine-game winning streak during the season.
Prior to moving into his role at UC, he was an offensive graduate assistant coach with the Iowa football program in 2017 and 2018.
Iowa won six of its first seven games in 2018 and closed the season with wins in the final three games, including the 27-22 Outback Bowl win over No. 18 Mississippi State. The Hawkeyes won three of four trophy games for the third time in four seasons. The four losses came by a total of 23 points and all were decided in the final minutes of play. Iowa’s 5-4 Big Ten record earned a tie for second place in the West Division.
The Iowa offense in 2018 set a school record for most points scored in road games. The Hawkeyes averaged 31.2 in all games, the ninth highest single-season total in school history.
Sinagoga joined the Iowa staff from Central Michigan, where he was a graduate assistant coach who worked with the quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers during his two seasons (2016-17). He was a quality control assistant at Central Michigan in 2015 and a graduate assistant coach at Northwood University in Midland, Mich., in 2014.
Sinagoga played quarterback at Northwood University, serving as team captain as a senior. He was voted a team leader for four years, was nominated to the 2013 Allstate Good Works Team, and earned conference All-Academic recognition for four years.
Sinagoga earned his bachelor’s degree in entertainment and sports promotion management from Northwood University in 2012, and his MBA from Central Michigan University in 2015.
