Waldwick

What was that experience like for you?

Shoot, so when I was, when I was around eighth grade, I moved to Bergen County up in New Jersey, um, from Hudson County to Bergen County, to, uh, a high school, Waldwick High School.

Uh, I played football up there for, like, three years.

Met some great people.

How would you compare transferring from there to here to, like, the transfer experience you had when you were younger?

Shoot, I really kinda look at it the same.

You, you, you go from, you go from Waldwick, that's a, a public school, probably about, I forget, a couple hundred people that go to the school, and then you go to, like, a big-time high school.

It's kinda the same thing here at Monmouth.

Our attention is pretty good.

You know, we do have kids that have been there in Waldwick, our first center from the beginning and a lot of our centers.

I think that stickiness is really what it is.

And that's what we tell parents.

We carry people home, and so God speeds us wheresoe'er we go.

Hohokas, Waldwick, Allendale Lift sleepy heads to give us hail.

In Ramsey, Mahwah, Suffern, stand Houses that wistfully demand A father, son, some human thing That this the midnight train may bring.

the trains that travel in the day they hurry folks to work or play the midnight train is slow and old but of it let this thing be told to its high honor be it said it carries people home to bed my cottage lamp shines white and clear god bless the train that brought me here pennies A few long-hoarded pennies in his hand behold him stand, A kilted hedonist perplexed and sad.

They're in a conference with schools that are a lot bigger than them.

So I think they're one, you know, Waldwick up in North Jersey had New Jersey's leading goal scorer a few years ago.

They're always well prepared.

They're always very well coached.

You know, we know West Orange, Kearney, Scotch Plains.

One of those teams from up north is probably going to be there in the end.

You know, you know, Waldwick or Glenridge is going to be there in the end in Group 1.

But Group 2, for us, I think was always kind of one of the toughest to forecast.

I got an interesting connection about the two games you were talking about at the top of the show.

So the head coach of UMass Amherst, is a guy named Joe Harasimiak played football in Waldwick, where I live.

This kid had something special when he was in school, so of course I was excited about the game last night.

My son was his teammate at Waldwick High.

We're a Group 1 school.

My son also played in that Appalachian State-Michigan game back on September 1st, 2007.