OT? - Ranney / Team Rio

e5fdny

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Nov 11, 2002
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Shell

When you factor in paying $15,000 to $ 20,000 a year in Property Taxes the idea of having my kid after hoop practice waiting on a train platform to get home from Jersey City at 6:30 in dead of winter----eat dinner----and then do homework to me is just silly.

OK if the Catholic education thing is that important to you there's Delbarton and Seton Hall but commuting to Jersey City to me is just too much from Chatham for a young kid.

But hey-----people swear by the Jesuits.

I have a former coworker and a great friend who went to The Prep along with all his brothers---------from Sea Girt back in the late 60's.
Now you've done it.

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Shell21

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Mar 23, 2004
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Now you've done it.

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Its crazy to have high school kids commute like that daily, but I know families that do hop in the train from Chatham to go to St. Peters daily.
 

RUBigFrank

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Jun 9, 2003
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Monmouth county sends upwards 20 to 25 girls to dive one schools a year
It has become one of the top counties in the country for girls basketball
 

ryebread

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Sep 21, 2001
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no offense to Chatham, but in boys basketball, Morris county is horrible. At the Catholic schools, you will be playing top notch comp every night. If you want to be a big fish in a small pond ...
 

Knights 1212

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Sep 9, 2003
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As for Linden I know that Otis Livingston and his family live in Linden. Otis Sr. and his wife still are at almost every Linden game. They are wonderful people.
 

TDIrish27

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Aug 2, 2001
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Agree it isn't the best but how many kids relative to the amount playing are scholarship players-----or even scholarship candidates for that matter ?

If you're good they find you and much of the recruiting today in hoops is done on the AAU circuit anyway.

With my 2 kids one wanted Parochial and one wanted Public and it worked out fine for both . My oldest went Parochial and ended up at NW while my youngest ended up at a D-2 PA school playing soccer on a modest scholarship.

In the case of Chatham that's a top of the line school system.

Without seeing numbers I would say likely upper 5 % in the state
 
Nov 10, 2003
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Raritan HS in Hazlet did the same thing for 2 years when they had a very good player{cousin} move into a house the year they went to the Tournament of Champions and lost a close game to St. Anthony's. That kid went onto play at Houston and his cousin Boston U. One went on to play in Europe for a short time.
 

Local Shill

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Aug 30, 2001
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Shell

When you factor in paying $15,000 to $ 20,000 a year in Property Taxes the idea of having my kid after hoop practice waiting on a train platform to get home from Jersey City at 6:30 in dead of winter----eat dinner----and then do homework to me is just silly.

OK if the Catholic education thing is that important to you there's Delbarton and Seton Hall but commuting to Jersey City to me is just too much from Chatham for a young kid.

But hey-----people swear by the Jesuits.

I have a former coworker and a great friend who went to The Prep along with all his brothers---------from Sea Girt back in the late 60's.

Very well said. Unless you're just so rich that it doesn't matter, the idea of essentially paying for school twice is just asinine.

The idea that anyone who lives in Chatham (Chatham!) and thinks the public schools aren't good enough is mind-boggling.
 

Local Shill

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Aug 30, 2001
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Some years ago my daughter played AAU ball.
Girl on the team from Neptune - she went on to play at ru- was housed along with family in colts neck.
Thought by the handlers she would play at the HS.

Girls players have handlers, too? JFC.
 

koleszar

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Jan 1, 2010
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I see the "interested parent" is associated with a "wealth management firm". If these kids go pro I wonder who their agent/financial advisor will be.
Exactly what I thought. He's recruiting future clients, that's all. His explanation of why his business suddenly changed their information from Professional athlete's wealth management from it's bio was the tell tale sign for me. Ranney school parents have money. He gives them a successful sports program, that he's the face of, he gets an in. Now if one of those kids becomes professionals he has an in.
 
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