where are all the athletes?

[Jaka]

imo, NY has a plethora of athletes, where are they? is a another question. Is there anyone else that thinks that if you rounded up the athletes in NY that they would be able to compete with other states?

 

[rrlbees]

there are a lot of great athletes in nys. but they either don't play football or only play it a few months a year. we are getting a lot of athletes out of nyc but it is a risk because some won't pan out at all while the others may take 2-3 years to blossom into football players. there just aren't that many football players in ns that are ready to contribute year 1 or 2, especially downstate.

 

[OrangePA]

there are a lot of great athletes in nys. but they either don't play football or only play it a few months a year. we are getting a lot of athletes out of nyc but it is a risk because some won't pan out at all while the others may take 2-3 years to blossom into football players. there just aren't that many football players in ns that are ready to contribute year 1 or 2, especially downstate.

Hopefully Brandon Reddish and Wayne Morgan are exceptions to the apparent NYC rule.

Jay Bromley has been positive.

We will see.

 

[Jaka]

there are a lot of great athletes in nys. but they either don't play football or only play it a few months a year. we are getting a lot of athletes out of nyc but it is a risk because some won't pan out at all while the others may take 2-3 years to blossom into football players. there just aren't that many football players in ns that are ready to contribute year 1 or 2, especially downstate.

i respect you're posts and def understand you, my boy Chris Cowen was I believe a 3 time sec champ at wrestling and IMO, the best heavyweight prospect in sec 3 in the last 20 years. The problem was he didn't start wrestling until (don't quote me since 7th grade). I have never EVER scene anyone put a block on someone in football like he has. When Art Jones was a freshman and Chris was a junior, Chris beat Jones at the UE tournament...which if you know wrestling, then you know that UE is the best dual meet tournament in the STATE hands down. My point being that Art Jones is a 5 star prospect IMO bc he actually made the NFL which is incredibly honorable IMO. I agree and think that the best athletes are not playing football in NY unlike the South. I am drunk right now so its been "apita" (a pain in the ass) to write this and be articulate. Please, we are all SU fans and I care about SU sports bc I am a native CNY'er and Syracuse University is unlike other business' in that it can't leave the area. What can we do? (btw, i can give more examples of locals being better athletes than the ones being recruited)

 

[ImperialOrange]

i respect you're posts and def understand you, my boy Chris Cowen was I believe a 3 time sec champ at wrestling and IMO, the best heavyweight prospect in sec 3 in the last 20 years. The problem was he didn't start wrestling until (don't quote me since 7th grade). I have never EVER scene anyone put a block on someone in football like he has. When Art Jones was a freshman and Chris was a junior, Chris beat Jones at the UE tournament...which if you know wrestling, then you know that UE is the best dual meet tournament in the STATE hands down. My point being that Art Jones is a 5 star prospect IMO bc he actually made the NFL which is incredibly honorable IMO. I agree and think that the best athletes are not playing football in NY unlike the South. I am drunk right now so its been "apita" (a pain in the ass) to write this and be articulate. Please, we are all SU fans and I care about SU sports bc I am a native CNY'er and Syracuse University is unlike other business' in that it can't leave the area. What can we do? (btw, i can give more examples of locals being better athletes than the ones being recruited)

Drink more and these questions usually go away.

 

[rrlbees]

i respect you're posts and def understand you, my boy Chris Cowen was I believe a 3 time sec champ at wrestling and IMO, the best heavyweight prospect in sec 3 in the last 20 years. The problem was he didn't start wrestling until (don't quote me since 7th grade). I have never EVER scene anyone put a block on someone in football like he has. When Art Jones was a freshman and Chris was a junior, Chris beat Jones at the UE tournament...which if you know wrestling, then you know that UE is the best dual meet tournament in the STATE hands down. My point being that Art Jones is a 5 star prospect IMO bc he actually made the NFL which is incredibly honorable IMO. I agree and think that the best athletes are not playing football in NY unlike the South. I am drunk right now so its been "apita" (a pain in the ass) to write this and be articulate. Please, we are all SU fans and I care about SU sports bc I am a native CNY'er and Syracuse University is unlike other business' in that it can't leave the area. What can we do? (btw, i can give more examples of locals being better athletes than the ones being recruited)

Glad you told me you were drunk, I don't know what you just said. Being an athlete and being a football player aren't always synonymous.

 

[rrlbees]

Hopefully Brandon Reddish and Wayne Morgan are exceptions to the apparent NYC rule.

Jay Bromley has been positive.

We will see.

No doubt. It's never all. But the great athletes in NYC that do play football usually take more time.

 

[tipphill]

there are a lot of great athletes in nys. but they either don't play football or only play it a few months a year. we are getting a lot of athletes out of nyc but it is a risk because some won't pan out at all while the others may take 2-3 years to blossom into football players. there just aren't that many football players in ns that are ready to contribute year 1 or 2, especially downstate.

gee i always thought that downstate,nyc and long island were far better than upstate and more recruited. granted nys places less emphasis on football,plays fewer games and less practices than most states. i think we have more restrictions.

 

[All4SU]

They're all playing golf.