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Sports Groups lack of common rules and standards Come under Siege

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April 19,2015

the staff and various contributors of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, May 11th Civility Forum will be about Sports in Ridgewood. The lack of common rules and standards and what can be done to promote civility among coaches, players, and parents. Please come!

Civility Forum – May 11th at 7:30PM
The next Civility Forum will be held at 7:30pm in the Senior Lounge at Village Hall.
Rev. Jan Phillips will lead the discussion. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Business as usual for these Ridgewood sports groups.

I like the term “sports mafia” it has been this way since my daughter played some years ago and i do not believe it will change.

And this is “news” to who??? Many years ago, the Maroons may have been considered relevant. But now, if you want your kid to learn soccer, tryout for one of the many clubs in the more competitive leagues that have emerged. A greater commitment and more money, but a better experience overall.

The Maroons used to be a completely private club and through manipulation got themselves under the Parks and Rec department. In the past they would get fields to use if they were available which is fine or have to travel and use other towns fields which most parents were to lazy to do. Now as being under the Parks umbrella they want more and more field time.

Do you think that Lax is any different? Those that controlled lax for years have high school kids who never get any play time because – they never were any good at the sport. The dads controlled the travel teams for the benefit of their boys. Now that the dads are on the sidelines the kids are on the bench. Thank God for no cut teams.

They controlled the kiddie football too so their kids saw lots of play time there. Lots of boys wanted to play but if dad was not one or the six coaches (who worked out together because they thought that they were young bucks) they never got onto the field.

Youth sports in Ridgewood are all about the parents.

4 thoughts on “Sports Groups lack of common rules and standards Come under Siege

  1. Article certainly has a lot of truth in it.

  2. Well this is a surprise Paul Aronsohn and his two Amigos received the full backing from the sports groups in the last election and now he is hold a civility meeting on these very same sports groups.. Next they will be a civility meeting for the Schedler group, CRR and the list will go on.

  3. well no more money in the fund for a mill dollar field. thats over back to grass

  4. Don’t forget to post weekly sports photos of your kids on Facebook. That is the only reason most of us got Facebook accounts – to keep up with your kids.

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