Landon vs. Georgetown Prep Upper School

[Anonymous]

I think GP is more obessed with beating Landon than the Bears are. I do recall seeing two 50 year old prep parents, running around the Landon turf field, holding a student banner, taunting Landon players after the game. It was classless and certainly did not set a good example for teen-age kids.

I do agree, the rivarly that exists between Landon and Prep at times is un healthy and needs a break. For years Prep has been saying they were going to the WCAC but who knows when it will happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think GP is more obessed with beating Landon than the Bears are. I do recall seeing two 50 year old prep parents, running around the Landon turf field, holding a student banner, taunting Landon players after the game. It was classless and certainly did not set a good example for teen-age kids.

I do agree, the rivarly that exists between Landon and Prep at times is un healthy and needs a break. For years Prep has been saying they were going to the WCAC but who knows when it will happen.

Who's obsessed? You must be new to this.

During the late 1990's when GP started to actually threaten Landon's Lax dominance, some years Landon coaches scouted every GP home game and some away games. The Redskins don't go to those lengths.

I'll agree the behavior you described was "idiotic".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"In DC, where you go to high school is much more important than where you go to college."

Not if you plan to have a career.

Maybe not. Although there are some who would say the influence of the college you attended lasts up to you get your first job. As you proceed through your career, people stop caring or asking what college you went to.

But "Where did you go to high school" is one of the first questions that is asked in a social setting as DC natives feel each other out. And its a critical driver of who your life-long friends are. For whatever reasons, the high school associations seem to be very important in DC.

You sound creepy.

[Anonymous]

I have attended several Landon lacrosse games over the years as well many Prep games. Both coaching staffs tend to be present at each others game taking notes. Its unfair to single out Landon as the culprit for this when every single IAC team does the same thing.

[Anonymous]

If you truly believe the source of the animosity between Landon and Prep is rooted at Landon coaches scouting Prep or vice versa in lacrsse, you are clearly mistaken. The schools have resented one another since the mid 1960's for various reasons. Whose to blame, I do not know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the game on Saturday watching a neighbor's son. I have to say that I was utterly appalled by the cheers of the Prep student section. At one point they chanted loudly in unison, bull@#$% and another time Bears (landon's mascot) eat meat. There were others that I won't go into but as the father of a young boy in tow I have to say that I cringed every time they started another cheer. At the end of the game, two fathers, I think, held up one of Landon's banners made for the game in the middle of the field (on the logo as noted previously) pointing at the Landon sideline. It was embarrassing. After seeing those fathers, I now know where the kids learned the chants.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the 2010's. You'll find the cheers that come from many student sections to be quite offensive.

But you don't know the half of it. It goes way beyond chants and insults.

In the 1990's two GP students at Bethany Beach were set upon by "The Landon Army" and beaten so badly they had to be hospitalized. I've seen banners strung across the entire Landon stands asking "Who's Your Daddy?" for the enjoyment of fans on the opposite side of the field.

Bad behavior on the Prep side? I'm sure you are right. Many believe GP should leave the IAC and join the Catholic League to get away from this dysfunctional relationship that masquerades as a high school "rivalry". And it would be Landon that would complain the loudest if that were to occur, similar to what we heard when GP stopped playing Landon in football for a few years after they went to the MIAA.

Landon could then obsess on beating St Albans or Bullis.

Yeah, Prep parents are not obsessed with beating Landon. At all. And there are no documented sightings of bad behavior from Prep and/or Mater Dei parents on the sidelines. None at all.

[Anonymous]

Landon supporters are clearly frustrated at playing second fiddle all these years. And now, the flood gates are opening. There is a not-insignificant turndown in the numbers of applicants/athletes applying there. There is a sense of despairation to defend one's position.

[Anonymous]

The only people who like Landon either have children attending OR are alumni.

Simple truth.

[Anonymous]

That sounds so childish pp. I don't have a kid at Landon, thus, I have no opinion about it. Why do you care?

[Anonymous]

14:30

The school is currently over enrolled in the upper and middle schools. How would a Prep booster know so much about Landon's enrollment figures.

[Anonymous]

you guys should just stop fighting on an anonymous online board. It makes parents and/or kids at both schools look like idiots.

[Anonymous]

Posters on this forum reference schools as "top tier" or "second tier". What is Prep and Landon considered/reputation overall? In academics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14:30

The school is currently over enrolled in the upper and middle schools. How would a Prep booster know so much about Landon's enrollment figures.

From knowing who some of the kids are that got accepted.

[Anonymous]

18:39

do you care to name a few of the boys who were accepted? Not saying Prep is the inferior school but their boosters on here sure act like little children by their routine attempts to degrade Landon even further.

What are you teaching your children?

[Anonymous]

From what I hear on the grapevine, Prep should start worrying about boys choosing Gonzaga......