Is St. John's Becoming an IMG?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I am surprised by how few people really understand the move SJC is making. This is an agressive move to shift the athletic program at SJC and will have some level of impact on the school as a whole.

It's going to interesting to watch. They will likely have move toward boarding student athletes in this push to create a national program. I've known about the football for the past few months (good friends with a football mom who has been filling me in). I'm very curious if they're starting with just football and will move to other sports or if they will be pursuing this two-tier athletic program across other sports.

Read the subject line. This is akin to putting a mini IMG into the existing SJC structure. There will be two varisty football programs - the one that is all recruited top athletes playing the big national programs - IMG, Don Bosco, etc. And the existing program playing in the WCAC. Will this come to basketball? To soccer? Baseball? Lacrosse? Which girls programs?

But in Southern California, the Don Boscos play public schools that have equally competitive programs. St. John’s won’t have much local competition from D.C.-area public or private schools. Southern California has always been a wellspring of top tier football talent, where large public and private schools play in the same conferences.

I could see St. John’s become rivals with up-and-coming St. James in Virginia, and that other religious Catholic school in Baltimore, St Frances Academy.

That’s not true. SJC played Friendship Collegiate a DC charter and only won by like 3 points. The best MD and VA public’s probably would have beaten this past year’s team which was not strong.

SJA destroyed good counsel and St Francis destroyed SJA. Both would have likely beaten SJC very badly.

The best public local football teams are definitely competitive with WCAC.

No. They wouldn't. Publics schools in the area are not on par with the WCAC schools.

And you example doesn't support your argument in the least since SJA and St. Francis are essentially football academies dressed up as high school. You can argue that SJC wants to be IMG but at least those kids actually attend classes = SJA and St. Francis...not so much.

I literally just gave an example of an actual game played between SJC and a DC charter school that was very close. That DC charter isn’t the best public school team in the DMV by a long shot.

Also, just pointing out that SJA and St Francis are in fact a tier above when it comes to football teams (I don’t know nor care about their academics)…the WCAC couldn’t touch them last year.