If you can't beat 'em... quit

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Members of the Ridgefield High team, many of whom found out about the decision while at a school dance Friday night, said they were stunned. “Disappointment and shock,” was how Joe Wolff, one of the team’s six seniors described his reaction. “We’ve had a great season — the team won 14 of 20 regular-season games before losing in the FCIAC quarterfinals — and now we don’t get a chance to play in States. It doesn’t seem fair to any of us.”

So they punish the kids for something they thought the coach did. Brilliant. If I was a parent of one of those kids, my first call would have been to a lawyer.