As of tomorrow, we will be just five short weeks away from the official beginning of the 2011 football season. Although camps, combine and 7 on 7s have been raging for well over a month now, it all turns real on Friday, Aug. 19.
Of course, Section 1 still faces a question that many of you have posed in recent weeks: Will Yonkers have football or will budget cuts eliminate the sport at Roosevelt, Lincoln, Gorton, Saunders, Yonkers and Riverside?
I just asked Horace Greeley AD Steve Young that question. He more or less provided the same answer when I asked him about it back in April.
This time, with time growing short, Young admitted that the uncertainty of the Yonkers budget crisis has put the Section 1 football committee in a bind. However, Young said he spoke to Yonkers city AD Jim Rose about the subject on Tuesday. Rose said his superintendent Bernard Pierorazio has said the district will have football this fall.
“Everything we’ve heard from Yonkers has said that it’s a-go,” Young said.
Young said the football committee and Section 1 executive director Jennifer Simmons have met to discuss contingency plans but that nothing is set in place. In addition to the situation in Yonkers, the committee is also waiting to see whether Ramapo and Spring Valley merge their football teams.
If teams do not play football, they will simply be removed from the power rankings in their specific class. (Click here to see the current rankings and how your team could be impacted.) However, the scheduling matrix is so intricate, it will need to be redone completely. Even though the aforementioned teams are in Classes AA (Lincoln) and A (the other five), those won’t be the only classes affected. Some of the teams in jeopardy play crossover games against teams from smaller classifications.
Young said the schedules — the ones first reported here on Apr. 12 — will be restructured completely if schools don’t field football teams or if two schools merge. There is no current deadline, however, for those districts to make those decisions.
In truth, it could still be weeks until Section 1 teams know for sure who they will face in 2011.
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Prince, #42 for South west, Levi Bursch. I think he went to colgate but not on their 2011 roster. Morganstern(RCK) is on there.
Here is a small highlight tape, pretty impressive athlete, run & catch out of backfield.
http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/sports/2010/5/19/FB_0519102852.aspx?id=609
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Levi might be on ther lax roster???........
Morg!... Looks good this year he should be better this year!!!!!
Prince, just checked lax roster, he is not there. I got that football highlight clip from Colgate website so you would think that would be his sport. Interesting if he is not playing. I know guys arent going Pro from colgate and you want to get that education, but I know quite a few guys that regret not playing in college or quit after their first year.
This kid might be the reason why Bursch isnt playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvfVaPGF-GY
over 100 against Syracuse, even though they got spanked.
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That’s interesting that he is not on either roster im surprise by it! Yea with a 100 yards against cuse I can also see him not playing!!!!
Prince, here is Morganstern Sr video. He doesnt look like 4.6 speed out there. Almost thinking Corn looks faster. But he runs tough, good balance, has good speed, reads his blocks, and can catch out of the backfield.
At the beginning of the video it shows his STATS, which is good, but then right away it is showing clips of his weight lifting training, do you think it should have his better plays off the bat?
What would you suggest if you were putting his video together?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbkvZACCXI&feature=related
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on morg video i think the weight light training part is not bad but i would put it on a separate video or on the back end of it!!... video should not be more then 5 min (MAX) yes it should have his best plays upfront!!...
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