Has this page been updated with the 2012 schedule? It still says 2011. Just making sure.

The football team still stinks. If the Board of Ed won't hire a winning coach, than the team needs to be dropped.

THE KIDS ARE GIVING THEIR ALL the above is out of line 100 per cent the team stinks . but have to agree that our board can support our sport programs more.
do we still have a weight room do we have someone to work with our kids if we do have a weight room.
we need coaches that our their all day not part time as to teachers or other positions full time.
maybe look at the AD he runs our sports programs time for a change
we need to work with all sports to get our kids to stay home play for fair lawn. how many great kids from this town played at DB & BC because a winning program gets you that college to look for you like free ride. we have to sell we want to make
FAIR LAWN HIGH SPORTS GREAT.

The team does not stink. The players work hard and the coaches even harder. The school has switched divisions and we are playing against schools that have many more students playing football. There is no high school that has a FULL TIME coach... every coach is usually a gym teacher. I would like to see you, John Jones go out there and practice as hard and long as these boys do. The only thing that *stinks* at the games is the BAND---- they play at all the wrong times; they play when fair lawn has the ball (when they need to be concentrating but distracted by the band) and they do NOT play when fair lawn scores. I was at the Clifton game when fair lawn scored one of their 3 touchdowns and they were just sitting there because they are giving a "quarter" to "eat and relax" meanwhile, Clifton's band was playing the whole time-- everyone in the crowd was wishing that Clifton was our band.

The band doesn't stink, they are excellent. But they do need to be involved in the game. I was at the Hackensack game. We scored a touchdown and.........................................nothing.

Someone should tell the coach that he will continue to lose if he does not switch out players to give them a breather. The team falters in the late portion of the game due to exhaustion

Why are tax payers even funding this exclusive club which discriminates against many athletes simply because the coach doesn't feel they are the "best"? The players should fund this extracurricular activity themselves, including use of our fields.

Sam obviously Got cut for everything he ever tried out for

The "program" falls under the responsibility of a very well compensated athletic director, who probably with all the sports under his belt, has the most losses. Something needed to change a long time ago, but nothing was done!

Tommy as a former letterman, would it have been fair to require you to pay for participation?
I know times are tough but the cuts should be in Administration and the salaries NOT on the kids backs

Fair Lawn sports in the high school in the last 15 years has dropped terribly, and nobody is held accountable.

The head coach wa actually a very very successful defensive coordinator for Hawthorne highs hook who led the past 6 years of teams to many successful games - the players are hard workers and together they all work hat to make it in the game- they come a far way from last year where everyone was learning new tactics, rules, and plays- for the first time since I was on highschool there is actually love brought back into this town. So for all of you people just looking all the scores bed a reality check that it's not only about lose or win fair lawn needs more players to come out for the love of the game because that is what matters

The problems always starts from the top. When the favoritism, special treatment, selfishness, lack of knowledge is recordnized THEN the programs will step out of the cellar.
The AD must be held responsible for the program. After several years experience with the HS all he cares about is his paycheck (along with many of the teachers and administrator).
There is too much more to even say.

As a parent of a FLHS Senior football player, I am disappointed with all the negative comments. These players and coaches are dedicated to their team, school and community. That's more than I can say about their community that continually bashes and puts them down, you should all be ashamed of yourselves. As far as DB & BC goes I can count on one hand how many players left Fair Lawn, so I don't think they would have really made a huge impact on our team. Also, if you choose to make stupid comments put your name on it!

yes fair lawn does need more players. it is very hard to go both ways a whole game. and also we have to look at the top as stated above it does start their.
we also have to work with are kids on the all sport level to get them to play the sport they enjoyed as kids in high school.
it is never to early for our high school coaches to work with the coaches on that level. start the kids young to know your system.
to the writer who does a good job every week one point to look at the past is history lets start to add the facts as to what this program needs. let us move on to make fair lawn sports better for our kids and the pride we all have.

The Cutters, or any HS team for that matter, need several things to be successful. A coach who can galvanize the team into a dedicated unit, a focus on fundamentals and conditioning, a scheme that plays to the strengths of the personnel available and a supportive culture from the school administration and community. Until we have this mixture, our program will be relegated to mediocrity in the football universe.

100 % agree with janice. the negative non constructive comments are uncalled for.
i am familiar with the coaches and know they put in a lot of time to try to get the program to where it wants to be. they give it thier all and care very much about the kids. it takes some time to turn around a program and sometimes a couple years just to correct the errors or negative image left by previous coaches.
if you watch the games FL is in it for the first half but then lets the game slip away at the end. this shows the coaches are teaching the right stuff and the kids are playing well we just dont have enough players to keep them fresh.
it is also not the worse thing in the world for these kids to lose, as long as they are having fun. the kids will benefit and learn from being the underdog team every week and still gonig out and trying thier best. in life no matter how hard you work you may not always win, but successful people are the ones who handle the defeat well and keep working hard and trying again.

Shame on anyone who insults these young men who are going out and giving it their all. They have far more pride in their town and school than some of the posters on here.

Mr. galtinski -would you also expect honors students to pay a fee for their exclusive classes? Musicians? Kids in the award winning musical?

Fair Lawn playing Don Bosco? This is another reason why the A.D. belongs working in the library distributing books, because apparently he has no problem with kids being slaughtered like Roman Gladiators! When this game first popped up on the schedule, something should have been done immediately!

this is to everyone that wrote ignorant comments on this page... look up on MARK J. CZERWINSKI article on the FL/ Bosco game. and i quote "Fair Lawn's Amir Saadah turned in one of the best coaching performances of the season Friday night, even though his Cutters lost to national football power Don Bosco, 44-0, in Big North crossover action. And his technique should be a lesson to public school coaches all over North Jersey." By MARK J. CZERWINSKI
RECORDCOLUMNIST. And as far as the coaches being part time- if you only knew how many hours a week the coaches spend watching films, strategizing, being mentors to these studnets- you people should be ashamed. The job of a head coach is more than just a part time job for teachers... it is A FULL TIME JOB ON TOP OF A FULL TIME JOB that is YEAR ROUND! The only way that a coach can dedicate enough time to the studnets is if they work a job where they get out the same time students do- or would you rather see students coming hom at all hours of the night because practice doesnt start til 5:30 and then they suffer in their academic performance. all i can repeat is STOP LOOKING AT WINS VS LOSSES AND START LOOKING AT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PLAYERS. It is sad becasue most people should be as dedcicated as the coaches on this team.
Is easy for all of you to criticize sitting on your couches, but lets see you get out there and recreate a program from the bottom up and see how far you get.

this is to everyone that wrote ignorant comments on this page... look up on MARK J. CZERWINSKI article on the FL/ Bosco game. AS was written on northjersey.com "Fair Lawn's Amir Saadah turned in one of the best coaching performances of the season Friday night, even though his Cutters lost to national football power Don Bosco, 44-0, in Big North crossover action. And his technique should be a lesson to public school coaches all over North Jersey." By MARK J. CZERWINSKI
RECORDCOLUMNIST on northjersey.com. And as far as the coaches being part time- if you only knew how many hours a week the coaches spend watching films, strategizing, being mentors to these studnets- you people should be ashamed. The job of a head coach is more than just a part time job for teachers... it is A FULL TIME JOB ON TOP OF A FULL TIME JOB that is YEAR ROUND! The only way that a coach can dedicate enough time to the studnets is if they work a job where they get out the same time students do- or would you rather see students coming hom at all hours of the night because practice doesnt start til 5:30 and then they suffer in their academic performance. all i can repeat is STOP LOOKING AT WINS VS LOSSES AND START LOOKING AT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PLAYERS. It is sad becasue most people should be as dedcicated as the coaches on this team.
Is easy for all of you to criticize sitting on your couches, but lets see you get out there and recreate a program from the bottom up and see how far you get.

I'm very proud of our Kids and Coaches for the way that they have never quit this season. The State has unfairly placed them in a league with much larger schools and not to mention a Nationally ranked team. We all know that Bosco recruits from not only New Jersey, but other states. They play other Nationally ranked teams from as far away as California. I've spoken to Coaches from Don Bosco and they also believe it's unfair that the State makes Fair Lawn play them.

As a former Cutter (#78 Class of 73) I am proud of this group of young men who even faced with an unfair situation have showed that they have the charachter and fortitude to keep going!! Go Cutters!!! Beat Passaic Tech this week!!!

Where does all the tax money go? What is the BOE doing? Oh, that's right, they just gave a 20% increase to SUBSTITUTES.
The clowncil spent $30k for a skatepark. We waste almost $1 million on Memorial pool. And you wonder why the football team is challenged?!

#1 industrialized nation in the world, that ranks below the top 10 country's in education, and you people want to throw more money into sports?

we read about all the great coaches who got their start on staffs at FAIR LAWN . Why has our board supit. or ad. never found a way to keep some of these great coaches in our town or on our teaching staffs. this is not only in football but in other sports.