Comments on: Four Ridgewood graduates will play football in college

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:52:17 +0000

Attending Avon is not a form of red shirting if a team is read shirting a player they do it when he is at the college. The reason graduates attend prep schools after their graduation is so they can get another year of education to improve their grades, mature, etc. Going to a prep school is more common in lacrosse rather than football but it happens in all sports.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:37:13 +0000

#3 – no, not wrong. Avon Old Farms is a high school level prep school (Google it). With that said, I am not knocking his attending (isn’t this referred to as “red shirting”). I admire his parents for allowing him time to pursue his interest and develop his skills at a new position. Most parents would go crazy if their already talented college-bound kid said, in 12th grade, “you know what, I’d really like to have a go at some other position”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:04:53 +0000

A Ridgewood High School graduate is headed for high school? You must be wrong.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:57:04 +0000

Avon Old Farms is a high school prep school, not a college. So three RHS 2012 graduate football players will be going off to play football and one will be going to a prep skills to master his skills at a new position in preparation for college.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:24:56 +0000

Susquehanna, Amherst, Springfield and Avon Old Farm…good thing we spent so much money on turf fields…these colleges probably don’t even have turf fields!