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Message: [QUOTE="Newhouse_83, post: 2869178, member: 7139"] Holy time-travel, Batman! * Substitutes? Role-players? Other than alternating Chalk and Tait at TE, and subbing a nickelback (Gorzalski?) for a backer, only a handful of guys who played O or D didn't start -- Grimes as a situational blocker, Morris for that bizarre goal-line carry, and Pidgeon when Reed got hurt. * The equipment! J-pads, neck rolls, and those shoulder pads ... Jamie Kimmel looked like he had a coffee table under his uniform top. Rudy Reed dropped a pick because he was wrapped like a mummy. * Someone mentioned the lack of availability of stats in the broadcast; I missed seeing the clock and down/distance. It was also evident that Gowdy/Dawson had nowhere near the prep or the resources available today ... lots of flubbed names, little insight, etc. "Floyd Schwartzwalder" was quite painful. *Good to see future roster anchors on the sideline: McPherson, Kane, Markus Paul, Fraze, Stoeppel, Ewald, Vesling. * This team was super NY- (and northeast)-centric. Green, Schwedes, Kimmel and Chalk were all upstaters, IIRC, while Covington, Gayden, Gregory, Marrone and McAulay repped metro-NYC/Long Island. Stir in Norley and Siano from Pennsy, and Lee from Connecticut, and that's half the starting lineup. King (Georgia) is the only out-of-region guy who comes to mind. I don't remember any key players from Jersey. This fall, assuming Trill beats out Bradshaw for a corner spot, we're looking at two NY starters unless Foster gets moved to plug the Cullen hole at LB and Coley slides in, or Qadir White leapfrogs some guys at OT. I've heard folks grumbling over time that the program doesn't recruit many "local kids," but my sense is that Dino and Co. are going where they need to go to get players who fit the program. Meanwhile, the state has two four-stars: Isaac (Penn State) and Blissett (Miami). Upstate's three best players -- committed three-stars --are headed to Buffalo, Rutgers and Ohio U. 24/7 has nobody from the 315, 607 or 518 in its top 25. [/QUOTE]

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