Just a quick update the hopefully quell one rumor: Spring Valley and Ramapo will not be merging their football teams, according to Spring Valley AD Bill Pilla. He said the school district will operate on an austerity budget for the 2011-12 school year but the football teams will be kept separate at the varsity level.
Pilla said he’s in the process of lining up scrimmages, buses, etc. for Spring Valley. He said the East Ramapo district would have indicated any intention it had to merge to Section 1 by this point in the summer.
I have no further update on the Yonkers football situation. I left messages with both Yonkers district AD Jim Rose and Section 1 executive director Jennifer Simmons today but did not hear back from either of them.
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All I can say is thank goodness. That would be a tragedy. Once a Gryphon, always a Gryphon!
Well, that’s good to hear… Looks like the Poughkeepsie-Spring Valley season opener is still on…
I am glad to hear that the schools will retain their identity…Now they should reinstitute a Ramapo-Spring Valley Football Game…....My blood flows orange and black with a touch of green.
Ramapo and Spring Valley should play every year. How do you not have a natural rivalry game? I don’t follow the current teams much but both teams have rich histories in Rockland county and those histories need to be preserved. A Tiger and a Gryphon just cannot mate. They are incompatible.