For those not familiar with Red Lion Christian Academy, the school prioritized making its football program into some sort of national power. It went up against the traditional scholastic sports structure in Delaware, and, frankly, it became an outlaw program. An outlaw high school program, no less. It also became an outlaw program with a severe money crunch:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/prep...istian-asks-for-diaa-reinstatement/52686064/1
This excerpt should give you some idea about the unsavory aspects of this program, and its most famous football player, David Sills:
"Much of the controversy surrounding Red Lion football has centered on David Sills IV, father of David Sills, the Lions' highly touted freshman quarterback. The elder Sills played major roles in the founding of the FOCAS Foundation (Financially Obedient Christians Assisting Students), a privately funded financial aid program that provides assistance to many of Red Lion's football players, and the F.L.A.S.H., Faithful Leaders Always Serving Him, (aka David Sills IV, not the other Him) Training program, which is housed in an on-campus facility built by Sills' construction company. Athletes from Red Lion and other schools have participated in the training program, which has led some to accuse Red Lion coaches and boosters of using the program to recruit outside athletes to attend Red Lion.
The school is barely hanging on now that the grid troupe has trooped away. The roving band of football players, including Sills, have moved just a mile or two across the state line into Elkton. Not a comment on Isaiah Johnson, just a comment on the seamy underbelly of high school football.
