OK, I have a handful of items to touch on this afternoon, so here goes:
• We’re less than two hours away from the latest edition of Varsity Insider Chat. Jake Thomases and I will hand out some gameballs and talk about the news and notes from an eventful Week 3. We hope you can join us for the show. This is your opportunity to talk about your team. Send us your questions and your comments and we’ll read them live on the air. As always, the show will start at 7 p.m. on LoHud.com/VCLive.
• I expect to have a loaded Fifth Quarter, but I’m going to save the details until it publishes tomorrow. The topics: Carmel’s comeback win over Ketcham; health updates no White Plains’ Terrelle Eaton and North Rockland’s Darius Favors; Sidney Weston doing his best Jeff Mack; and more.
• Amazingly, there are only a few games the rest of the regular season that even have the potential to pit one unbeaten against another. One that we’re guaranteed to see is this Friday, Poughkeepsie at Somers. So far that game leads in the Week 4 Game of the Week voting.
• Coaches, if you have stats from Week 3 (or before) you’d like updated, please e-mail me at jthomson@lohud.com. I’m updating them tonight.
• Lots of talk about rankings the last two days. I’ll admit, I have not decided who will be the new No. 1 in Class A but it’s definitely between Harrison and Nyack. I can see the point of people who believe Harrison is only getting to 100 percent, but Nyack’s performance on short rest at Rye was the best of the year in Class A. It’s a tough call.
• Also, many of you have debated who should be No. 1, talking about the strength of one schedule vs. the strength of another. That’s fair, but when I select the rankings it also boils down to who I believe looks like the best team. And when I watch teams on the field so far — offense, defense, special teams and coaching — I think New Rochelle is the best. Many of you vastly underrate the Huguenots’ individual talent because the players lack stats. Big mistake.
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Nyack deserves to be #1 and this is coming from a Harrison zip code
I think you should have Donny Davis or Jonathan McCoy as a guest
Once again I’m attempting to get an official Section 1 Football Record Book together. The state has a deep record book, Sections 2 and 9 have extensive record books, Section 5 and 6 have record books. It’s really bad that we don’t have one, especially since the Journal News/Reporter Dispatch has been keeping stats for years and years.
I’m asking for all individual school records for things like rushing yards, TDs, passing yards, receptions, points, XPs, etc for Game, Season, and Career.
I’ll give you the leader at every statistic right here…
Season Rushing Yards Sam Maldonado— 3,235 School: Harrison Year: 1999
Season Touchdowns Sam Maldonado— 38 School: Harrison Year: 1999
Season Passing Yards Kurt Abrams— 2,236 School: Dover Year: 1997
Season Passing TDs Kurt Abrams—30 School: Dover Year: 1997
Season Receiving Yds NONE AVAILABLE!
Season Receving TDs George Morfea— 17 School: Dover Year: 1997
Season Extra Points Jesse Brooks—61 School: Edgemont Year: 2000
Season Points Sam Maldonado— 232 School: Harrison Year: 1999
Season 200 Yd Games Sam Maldonado— 11 School: Harrison Year: 1999
Career Points Sam Maldonado— 630 School: Harrison Year: 96-99
Career TDs Sam Maldonado— 99 School: Harrison Year: 96-99
Career Rushing Yds Sam Maldonado— 7,581 School: Harrision Year: 96-99
Career Passing Yds Rob Higle—5,469 School: Briarcliff Year: 00-02
Career Passing TDs Rob Higle— 63 School: Briarcliff Year: 00-02
Career Receptions Mike MacKenzie—101 School: Albertus Magnus Year: 02-04
Career Extra Points Sebastian Saunders—135 School: Rye High Year: 04-07
Career Wins Tony DeMatteo— 280+ School: Roosevelt/Somers Year: ACTIVE
Game TDs Sam Maldonado, Trevor Dimmie, Greg Schuster, Jim Cann— Tied w/ 7
Game Yards Harold Gayden— 403 School: Sleepy Hollow Year: 1981
Game Passing Ryan McLaughling— 409 School: Albertus Magnus Year: 2009
Game Passing TDs Sean Gordon— 7 School: Lourdes Year: 1981
FG Length Chris Collins— 56 School: Ketcham Year: 2002
Malone,
Great idea with the record book. Sounds like lots of work.
Josh,
I appreciate you clearing up your methodology on the rankings. Seems like a number of us have enjoyed the debate. It seemed previously that you weren’t weighting the actual performance on the field this year as highly as most would, but you seem to have cleared that up. If you say you thought new ro looked better against No Rockland than Stepinac did against Iona, thats your call. They are after all your rankings. it will be interesting to see where you rank WP this week considering the loss of their top RB and not a great performance vs. MV.
Hoops fan,
It definitely will be tough, but it would be very rewarding for everyone. Using Journal News archives could work…idk.
John
thank you, what a great idea. Remember we in section 1…..fans, coaches, players, officials, and The communities do not make a big deal about our football nobody else will!! Good luck!!!
John Malone,
Here is one for you, career receptions: Mike Looney (Clarkstown North) 107 receptions from 1981 – 1983.
I also agree with Josh, New Ro is #1 until defeated. They can only play who is on there schedule. It is not there fault that there division is somewhat weak. In regards to the Mahopac / Clarkstown North game, I spoke to a Mahopac coach after the game to congratulate him. He was totally impressed with Clarkstown North and stated that there are just as good as Arlington, if not better on defense. He said that he can not imagine a more physical game then this one. He hopes he does not have to see them again if both teams make the playoffs.
A kid from Harrison rushed for 3235 yards in one season? Wow – how many games was that a mere 10 years ago – and today we play a grueling 6 game season.
That was in 12 games including the state championship.
here are my weeky rankings and i know people are going to call me crazy but this is what they Really are:
1. Iona
2. Stepinac
3. New Ro
4. White Plains
5. Bronxville
6. Harrison
7. Nyack
8. Mahopac
9. Arlington
10. Rye
those are the best rankings
my rankings,
you are crazy. stepinac beat iona so clearly better so why would you bother putting them #1 ?
these are the rankings in my opinion
1. Stepinac
2. Iona
3. New Ro
4. White Plains
5. Harrison
6. Nyack
7. Arlington
8. Mahopac
9. Bronxville
10. Rye
new ro cant be #1 till defeated because their leagues is a joke so they do not DESERVE the #1 spot. when your playing in the competetion like iona and stepinac then it’s much easier to drop in rankings because you lose a game. the rankings should be done by who has the best team and who would beat who as recent as the weekly rankings.
Stepinac’s competition isn’t that good. Iona be a awful team in st francis, and Holy Trinity only beat Mount by 10 points. I saw Mount at a scrimmage and they were awful. Not saying Iona doesn’t play good competition because they do, but they have had one test so far and lost
Is the ranking based on who they play or is the ranking based on how they would fair against each other. Because we all agree that because new Ro play alot of trash teams they are very capable of beating stepinac, Iona.
i do agree new ro is capable of beating iona and stepinac in a 1 game scenario, however lets say iona plays new ro 10 times, i believe iona would win 6 out of the 10 and same for stepinac vs new ro, but thats just my opinion