FB: New Jersey Athletic Conference

[rams1102]

catchball,

I hope all is well with you buddy.

It would be nice to get a little info from the spring pratice.

I sure hope we were agressively going after some of the Iona kids. Any idea?

With the "D" losses we can no longer depend on them for scoring points for the "O"

If we don't get a mobile QB, we will be in for a long season. Fisher can not do it. I still have nightmares from the Kean game. 

I have a feeling we are going to take a step back this year. I hope I'm wrong.

[catchball]

catchball,

I hope all is well with you buddy.

It would be nice to get a little info from the spring pratice.

I sure hope we were agressively going after some of the Iona kids. Any idea?

With the "D" losses we can no longer depend on them for scoring points for the "O"

If we don't get a mobile QB, we will be in for a long season. Fisher can not do it. I still have nightmares from the Kean game. 

I have a feeling we are going to take a step back this year. I hope I'm wrong.

All in all we are losing 12 seniors 7 from the defense and 5 from the offense. The biggest loss on defense is Hunt, Giangrande,Kranski and Mcgrady. On offense Mercer,Wambough and Scott.  AJ letizia will be back due to being injured last so if he is healthy reporting to camp, he is a big threat. Running backs as usual should do well, although I thought Scott did a hell of a job blocking at FB last year, receiving and when they gave him the oppurtunity, running the ball as well.
The O line is still scary to me, if we go with Fischer at the helm, they really need to step up and protect him, cause he is NOT a scrambler.
Defensive  line I think will do pretty good, LB's should also do well. The Def backs scare me, I think they need a little extra attention when camp rolls around this summer.
I'll see if I can findout any info about Spring Training over the weekend.
Just a heads up, Coach G offered  J.Scott the position of running backs coach next year.
I think he'll do well, from speaking to him after a few games over the years, seems the young man has a good sense of the game and I think G and Coach O see that in him.
So kudos to him and his family, I know his dad is stoked, he told me, 'just when I thought I didn't have to make that 85 mile trip up the parkway on Saturday's anymore '   8)

[clandfan]

hey suny cortland !!
have to admit, your stadium is outstanding, very impressive...   

do me favor...don't let clandfan i made this statement. might think i am getting soft.         still need my -k's

CB23

Ha!  Hi CB...you softie!!!!  Thanks for the props on the facilities (like I have anything to do with it) but I am sure that they were a huge factor in the Jets' decision.  Especially being able to see all fields from the outstanding pressbox.   I think that there will ultimately be some recruiting benefits if this can be parlayed into a multi-year deal.  Right now it is a one-year trial.  I understand that there will be some upgrade to some grass fields and that our players and coaches will benefit from  being able to sit in on some meetings and such.  I believe the Jets may also run a local clinic.  It will be great for the community and I know that they are excited about it.

Iona Recruit:  I understand that we got one.  A large lineman...underclassman.  We need linemen.  this will be our biggest question mark.....actually the entire offense will be a question mark as we will replace 10 of 11 starters.  I think we will be ok QB. I assume Pitcher will be QB.  He had limited snaps last year but looked pretty good and is highly touted.  All linemen are new.  Backfield is new.  WR / TE new.  Only returner maybe WR Hajnos if redshirt is approved.  I haven't heard anything on that.  So maybe the Iona kid can help...I know nothing about him other than size.

Cortland also lost three coaches with the biggest loss being OC.  Have played spring ball without OC.  Have no idea about applicants.  I am sure we will hear soon enough.

All things considered:  I heard that all were pleased with Spring Ball.  Offense actually looked pretty good as well as Def.  opportunity to evaluate some in new positions.  I guess we may be one of the fastest teams to come out of Cortland in some time with speed on both sides of the ball. 

Hope you are all well and looking forward to mixing it up again real soon.

[pumkinattack]

Anyone in here familiar with how to get to Scheutzen Park (N Bergen/Union City of Kennedy Blvd) from NYC via public transportation? 

Looking at NJ Transit's site, it looks like there's a bus from Port Authority that get you there pretty quickly, but I don't see how to get back - looks like it runs a different route. 

[Knightstalker]

Anyone in here familiar with how to get to Scheutzen Park (N Bergen/Union City of Kennedy Blvd) from NYC via public transportation? 

Looking at NJ Transit's site, it looks like there's a bus from Port Authority that get you there pretty quickly, but I don't see how to get back - looks like it runs a different route. 

To get back you can take one of several little busses.  They run constantly right along Kennedy Blvd and Scheutzen park should be one of the last stops before they head for NYC.  Are you heading there for some kind of German beer and schnitzel fest?

[pumkinattack]

Thanks.  No, I'm actually heading for a small boxing/MMA event.  I saw a bus 163 that goes out from Port Authority but it didn't look like it comes back in.  I'm advising a couple of people from my prior job on their CRE deals before I move down south and one happens to be an attorney by day and promoter by night.  I've never been to one of these locally promoted type events, but I'm excited (especially to have a good seat).  It's called Mayhem or something like that.

Oddly, I can navigate the multifamily (or any asset class) market in Bergen and Hudson counties and have financed a number of properties in NJ, but my on the ground knowledge of the area is pretty limited.  I pretty much know 95, 78, the GSP and a couple of the nicer towns in Norther NJ and that's about it.  Never saw the attraction of Hoboken where, you get more per/sq. ft., but the gross rents are the same as Manhattan and you're on the other side of the river. 

[Knightstalker]

Thanks.  No, I'm actually heading for a small boxing/MMA event.  I saw a bus 163 that goes out from Port Authority but it didn't look like it comes back in.  I'm advising a couple of people from my prior job on their CRE deals before I move down south and one happens to be an attorney by day and promoter by night.  I've never been to one of these locally promoted type events, but I'm excited (especially to have a good seat).  It's called Mayhem or something like that.

Oddly, I can navigate the multifamily (or any asset class) market in Bergen and Hudson counties and have financed a number of properties in NJ, but my on the ground knowledge of the area is pretty limited.  I pretty much know 95, 78, the GSP and a couple of the nicer towns in Norther NJ and that's about it.  Never saw the attraction of Hoboken where, you get more per/sq. ft., but the gross rents are the same as Manhattan and you're on the other side of the river. 

Not to mention Hoboken smells liked backed up sewer half the time.

[pumkinattack]

I'm not throwing that grenade in the New Jersey "room", but I can't disagree.

KS, as a NJ resident, is that akin to the dentist converting for the jokes in Seinfeld?

[Knightstalker]

I'm not throwing that grenade in the New Jersey "room", but I can't disagree.

KS, as a NJ resident, is that akin to the dentist converting for the jokes in Seinfeld?

KS didn't grow up in that part of Jersey, KS grew up in farm country not to far from the gap.  Besides it like your family, only other family members can make fun of it.

[JT]

I'm not throwing that grenade in the New Jersey "room", but I can't disagree.

KS, as a NJ resident, is that akin to the dentist converting for the jokes in Seinfeld?

KS didn't grow up in that part of Jersey, KS grew up in farm country not to far from the gap.  Besides it like your family, only other family members can make fun of it.

If it were legal to shoot corrupt politicians, you'd clean up NJ in a heartbeat.  Seems like there have been a lot of 'em the past couple years.

[pumkinattack]

Check out the boondoggle out at East Rutherford (which one you might ask), not Xanadu, but the Cherokee project to fill in all that swampland on the other side of Rte 3.  Even the metropolitan center, which is a very nice building, should never have been built and the +/- 30% vacancy rate (north of 20% in 2006, "the good times") is proof of that. 

That's something like $3Bn in taxpayer bucks out the door.  How about Kushner?  Or anything in Jersey City.

The guy I'm helping is constructing an apartment project in Union City and he was sued by a concerned citizen, along with 35 other projects out of concern that variances were handed out in exchange for consideration.  I don't know about the others, but my guy is legitimately clean and he gets hurt by the mere perception.

I take 80 through the Pocono's to head upstate (family in Binghamton).  Not a bad drive, but once you get past Mt. Olive, don't bother getting off and make sure you have gas until you get into PA or you are screwed. 

[JT]

Check out the boondoggle out at East Rutherford (which one you might ask), not Xanadu, but the Cherokee project to fill in all that swampland on the other side of Rte 3.  Even the metropolitan center, which is a very nice building, should never have been built and the +/- 30% vacancy rate (north of 20% in 2006, "the good times") is proof of that. 

That's something like $3Bn in taxpayer bucks out the door.  How about Kushner?  Or anything in Jersey City.

The guy I'm helping is constructing an apartment project in Union City and he was sued by a concerned citizen, along with 35 other projects out of concern that variances were handed out in exchange for consideration.  I don't know about the others, but my guy is legitimately clean and he gets hurt by the mere perception.

I take 80 through the Pocono's to head upstate (family in Binghamton).  Not a bad drive, but once you get past Mt. Olive, don't bother getting off and make sure you have gas until you get into PA or you are screwed. 

New Jersey used to be corporate friendly, and a good alternative to the tammany hall tactics of NYC.  But the taxes are through the roof: property taxes are among the highest in the country.  More and more producers are leaving the state. I will be one in the next few years.  I will not pay for someone else's debt long term.  I'll find a nice red state to raise my kids.

[pumkinattack]

I always wondered this, but are all those stupid jughandles created as a hand out to connected contractors?  I'll say this, Sanzari (I think that's they're name) is hauling a** on the work they are doing there.(Off 16W from 95 and connectin Rte 3 and the Meadowlands)

[Jonny Utah]

Check out the boondoggle out at East Rutherford (which one you might ask), not Xanadu, but the Cherokee project to fill in all that swampland on the other side of Rte 3.  Even the metropolitan center, which is a very nice building, should never have been built and the +/- 30% vacancy rate (north of 20% in 2006, "the good times") is proof of that. 

That's something like $3Bn in taxpayer bucks out the door.  How about Kushner?  Or anything in Jersey City.

The guy I'm helping is constructing an apartment project in Union City and he was sued by a concerned citizen, along with 35 other projects out of concern that variances were handed out in exchange for consideration.  I don't know about the others, but my guy is legitimately clean and he gets hurt by the mere perception.

I take 80 through the Pocono's to head upstate (family in Binghamton).  Not a bad drive, but once you get past Mt. Olive, don't bother getting off and make sure you have gas until you get into PA or you are screwed. 

New Jersey used to be corporate friendly, and a good alternative to the tammany hall tactics of NYC.  But the taxes are through the roof: property taxes are among the highest in the country.  More and more producers are leaving the state. I will be one in the next few years.  I will not pay for someone else's debt long term.  I'll find a nice red state to raise my kids.

Why are the taxes so high down in NY and NJ?  My cousin lives in Westchester County and bought a house a few years ago somewhere in the range of like 250K-300K and he pays like 15K in real estate taxes, water and other town fees.  Some people up here in MA think they have it bad.

[Knightstalker]

Check out the boondoggle out at East Rutherford (which one you might ask), not Xanadu, but the Cherokee project to fill in all that swampland on the other side of Rte 3.  Even the metropolitan center, which is a very nice building, should never have been built and the +/- 30% vacancy rate (north of 20% in 2006, "the good times") is proof of that. 

That's something like $3Bn in taxpayer bucks out the door.  How about Kushner?  Or anything in Jersey City.

The guy I'm helping is constructing an apartment project in Union City and he was sued by a concerned citizen, along with 35 other projects out of concern that variances were handed out in exchange for consideration.  I don't know about the others, but my guy is legitimately clean and he gets hurt by the mere perception.

I take 80 through the Pocono's to head upstate (family in Binghamton).  Not a bad drive, but once you get past Mt. Olive, don't bother getting off and make sure you have gas until you get into PA or you are screwed. 

New Jersey used to be corporate friendly, and a good alternative to the tammany hall tactics of NYC.  But the taxes are through the roof: property taxes are among the highest in the country.  More and more producers are leaving the state. I will be one in the next few years.  I will not pay for someone else's debt long term.  I'll find a nice red state to raise my kids.

Why are the taxes so high down in NY and NJ?  My cousin lives in Westchester County and bought a house a few years ago somewhere in the range of like 250K-300K and he pays like 15K in real estate taxes, water and other town fees.  Some people up here in MA think they have it bad.

Proximity to NY is the main reason I believe.  Also the location.  Westchester is regoddamndiculus for taxes as is Bergen in NJ, but in NY Rockland is right next to Westchester and is a hell of a lot cheaper and just as nice.  NJ Passiac and Sussex counties are right next to Bergen and for the most part cheaper.   KS has been looking at Rockland and Sussex counties, KS is leaning toward Rockland, due to things like car insurance and easy access to the train to the city.