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[QUOTE="SUDadx2, post: 4147527, member: 8174"]
This is very unfortunate.  But it also explains why there isn't a ton of talent coming out of NY.  Sure, there are athletes and some good football players, but nowhere near the skill level of kids who play year-round like they do in California, Texas and Florida.

If you want to improve the talent level, you need to play.  You need to get 10,000 reps to master your skill. You can't get that if you only play in the summer and fall.

In California we play 12 months a year.  Last year we played up and down the west coast from San Diego to Bakersfield and in Las Vegas Nevada, Phoenix, Arizona and in Dallas, Texas (Championship game in ATT stadium).  In Phoenix and Dallas, every team had more than one player with D1 talent.  In Dallas I saw a team from Atlanta that looked like everyone was a D1 recruit.  Super talented and fast.   Seven Magee out of Rochester, now at Oregon, trained and played with one of our teams.  I first saw him out here in California the summer before his high school freshman year.

Look around college football.  Many of the top teams have QBs who trained year-round and played a ton of 7 on 7.

Bryce Young at Alabama
DJ Uiagalelei at Clemson
JT Daniels at Georgia
CJ Stroud at Ohio State

Just to name a few.

Years ago when I was coaching, I used to run a big 7 on 7 tournament every summer.  We were located in Souther Californian, but in addition to every top team in So Cal we had high school teams (this was before club 7 on 7 existed) from Northern California, Nevada and Arizona.  We often had more than 40 schools participate.  The most we ever had was 52 teams.  It was a blast.  And the talent got better every year.

If the want is really there, there are enough indoor facilities in NYS to do this year-round.  Start small with 4 team round robin tournament every weekend.

It's like lifting weights.  If you want to be good at something you have to do it more than 4 months out of the year.
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