Athletic Director In Middlesex County: 'Go (Bleep) Yourselves'

Maybe he had just enough.

A N.J. athletic director who was frustrated over a vote separating New Jersey’s public and non-public high schools in football and wrestling went on an email rant that was obtained by nj.com.

In the nj.com-obtained email, Bishop Ahr athletic Michael Wolfthal wrote,

“I have been part of this conference since the beginning, having served in many capacities all for naught, (sic) what you showed was a total lack of support and appreciation (sic) this is just not right...TO THOSE WHO DID NOT VOTE TO DEFEAT THE LEGISLATION, GO (BLANK) YOURSELVES.”

The email was addressed to fellow athletic officials in the Greater Middlesex Conference and punctuated by all caps, four-letter profanity.

Bishop George Ahr High School is located in Edison. Wolfthal, when reached at home Thursday afternoon by nj.com, said he wrote the email out of “frustration” and said he regretted the profanity and “maybe the tenor” of the e-mail, “but certainly not the sentiment.”

The vote means Bishop Ahr’s football team will see a significant step up in competition playing only against non-public schools, and it means away games will mean more travel than its current schedule of GMC teams, according to the report.

The vote for football and wrestling was taken largely because of the disparity between non-public schools and public schools in high school sports - especially since private schools can recruit.

During a recent NJSIAA membership meeting, officials from 345 of the association’s 433 member schools cast votes and approved the separation proposals by nearly identical margins. The football proposal, which passed 215-128 with two abstentions, would remove all non-public schools from their current conference for football only and force them to create a statewide conference of their own, according to northjersey.com

The wrestling proposal passed, 216-121 with eight abstention, spooling all non-public wrestlers into their own four districts and one region while realigning the public schools into 28 districts and seven regions, according to the report.