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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 4809871, member: 860"]
Genuine question...was it ever good?  My knowledge and history of NYS HS football only goes back to the late 80s when I played in Section 4.  I left NY in the mid-90s, so I don't know what it's like now, but when I played it seemed none of the coaches in Section 4 were aware that the forward pass had been legalized.  There weren't a lot of kids over 200 lbs, even on the OL and DL, and WR were essentially outside blockers for pitches and option runs.  So from a skills standpoint, even if we had the physical traits to play D1 football (we didn't), we didn't have any coaching or teaching of skills that would be required to play college ball.  Of all the kids I went to school with, which would be like 9 or 10 graduating classes or about 3000 kids, exactly one played D1 football (at Syracuse).  And were a Class A school, so that wasn't the issue.  So prior to the mid-80s, was there a higher percentage of NY HS kids that played high level college football?
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