Updated: Where?s camp ? March 26 Where will the Jets have their July training camp? It probably won?t be at the expensive Florham Park football facility. Many have wondered about the logistics of holding a training camp here, considering there are no dorms or parking that could accommodate the thousands of fans who usually come to watch each day.According to several players, coach Rex Ryan has sent an assistant to scout possible locations in upstate New York that would make a suitable spot for a training camp. Hofstra, where the Jets trained up until last year, was also being considered. The Jets spent $75 million to build the new facility, which has training rooms with hot and cold tubs, classrooms, two cafeterias, four outdoor football fields and an indoor turf field. Today, the pricey outdoor turf field was ripped up and replaced by rocks although the reconstruction is being done under warranty. Despite these luxuries, the Jets have asked employees in the non-football division to take unpaid furloughs.Will it be less expensive to make camp at an upstate college or to retrofit the facility for bleachers, parking and have players stay in nearby hotels? Is cost even a consideration ? Either way, fans have to wait before making travel plans to see the revamped Jets sweat it out this summer. You read it here first. :beer: Update: Jets spokesperson Bruce Speight confirmed the team was scouting potential camp sites even though the Florham Park facility remained an option.?Coach Ryan is looking to find a more isolated environment for training camp to promote team building and we are researching potential locations,? Speight said in a statement. ?However, any plans will also include community events at our Atlantic Health Jets Training Center and in Long Island prior to the start of the regular season.? The idea is to get the players alone for a few weeks so they can bond without the distractions of home. This being the Jets first year under the new coach, the training camp period is critical, yet all but one of the players is there right now for the offseason workout. > http://jets.lohudblogs.com/2009/03/26/wheres-camp/ _____________________________ > http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/sherwood__2_/albums.jhtml?albumId=1483650
sounds like a typical Jets move to me. I liked the move because i don't have to go through LI anymore. florham park would have been a much shorter drive. But now its being moved because the decision wasn't thought through. SOJ
I've heard rumors of it being up in Cortland, at the SUNY Cortland campus. You wanna kill me for thinking this? fine. I know someone that has been interning with the Jets for a while now and I over heard him talking about this.
Typical JETS move. Why should anything be easy with this organization? Story at bottom of article in link. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...jets_safety_kerry_rhodes_signals_that_de.html
How do you spend $75 million bucks on a brand new facility, and neglect to include dorms and bleachers and parking?
I can see it now. They lay the last brick on the new building and Woody looks to his architect- "OK, let's go check out the dorms" Art Vandalay- "Ummm, they're not ready yet." Woody "When will they be ready" Art Vandalay- "When you tell us what you want we can draw up some plans." Woody- "OK, not a big deal, the players live close by." Art Vandalay- "What about training camp?" Woody "Shmaning Camp Training Camp, show me those fine bleachers I've heard so much about." Art Vandalay- "Sir, you didn't tell us that you wanted bleachers." Woody- "Ah, not a big deal, we don't need fans here anyway."
At least they can you the new faculty during the regular season. It really makes no sense that they cant have training camp there. It would make the most sense to have it at hofstra
this organization never ceases to amaze me.... if they are going upstate, we can say pretty much goodbye to daily TC reports and pics...
Yeah very upsetting. I thought I would have to travel 4 hours this year, instead of 5, now I would have to travel possibly 10+? No thanks. :sad:
Cortland would be awesome. 'Bout time those downstaters learn to share with the REAL New Yorkers. Now we need the Jets to back out of the new Meadowlands and build a stadium in Syracuse and everything would be perfect.
WTF??? Florham Park isn't isolated enough? Wow. I hope they furloughed the clown who didn't think of a dorm for the players. I was all psyched to visit the new facility during training camp. Silly me!
Why SUNY Cortland? They should hold them here at UConn. Most students here are New York fans. I'll be lying If I said there aren't any Pat fans but there can be Pat fans anywhere and I think its would be a great campus for the Jets to hold their training camp. Its only 2 hours and 30 minutes to NYC, much closer than Cortland. Plus, UConn is not only creating NBA players but also starting to create NFL players. In this years draft, there will be 3 UConn players in the first or second round. This will also give them a chance to expand their fan base pass NY and NJ and include CT. I know CT is consider "New England" but most CT people aren't Pats, Red Sox fans. Most are Mets, Yanks, Jets, or Giants fans.
Cortland would bring the Jets to a whole new fanbase in NY, but yet take them away from the NYC/LI/NJ fanbase that the stadium is by, so either way someone's getting screwed...
you and me both!!! god i have been dying to go to training camp for years and years, and because I live in little old upstate NY, which is no where near jersey, i never have been able to go. I swear to god I am day dreaming right now of just going to tc every day for a week and just snagging autographs from jets players and oh its just to much i cant even day dream it lol. if it is placed anywhere between Cuse, and Brockport I am going at least once this summer. Honestly I doubt it's put at cortland, my thought is it would likely be put somewhere near St. John Fisher. I believe the bills have used Fisher for some scrimmages before. So it's fit for NFL use. I would basically live at Fisher I do not lie. Hell if they put camp at Brockport, I would move in to school a month early, and just go to camp every day and love every second of it. However before I get my hopes up, my bet is they just go back to Hofstra for another year, till Florham is actually finished.
