Landon, G Prep and STA academics. Please rank and why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the iAC essentially hands out a trophy to a team that didn't even make it Ito iac tournament finals.

The best team in the iac this fall for soccer was episcopal . They won the games when they most mattered - the end of the season.

Its a joke to say sta won the iac banner for soccer when they didn't even make it to the championship .

Talk to the Athletic Director and Heads of Schools. The rules were set before the beginning of the season, and all the teams were aware of the criteria for being awarded a banner.

Some feel that how a team does over the course of a regular season (and St. Albans did significantly better than Episcopal, with one league loss compared to Episcopal's 4 or so) is more of a test of excellence in a tournament format. Others like the idea of rewarding the hot team playing well at the end of the season. The issue goes back and forth and the IAC has changed the format over the years and perhaps will change it again in the future. But, in fact, if a banner is offered to the regular season title and a team wins the regular season, it is not a "joke" to say they have won a banner, it's factual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The best team in the iac this fall for soccer was episcopal . They won the games when they most mattered - the end of the season.

LOL. EHS was 6-7-4 going into the IAC tournament. They got very lucky to beat beat both Landon and Bullis to get to the final game. I think they were either the last seed or the 2nd to last seed.

Calling them the best team in the IAC is laughable. That is like saying Villanova was the best basketball team in 1985 when they had that miracle run and beat Georgetown for the championship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The best team in the iac this fall for soccer was episcopal . They won the games when they most mattered - the end of the season.

LOL. EHS was 6-7-4 going into the IAC tournament. They got very lucky to beat beat both Landon and Bullis to get to the final game. I think they were either the last seed or the 2nd to last seed.

Calling them the best team in the IAC is laughable. That is like saying Villanova was the best basketball team in 1985 when they had that miracle run and beat Georgetown for the championship.

I have no trouble saying Episcopal had a great season. The rules say if you win the tournament championship you share the league title (aka the banner), and Episcopal had a great run and deserved their tournament win. However, the rules also say if you win the regular season you share the banner, so St. Albans had a great season too and it is also accurate to say they shared the banner. The Washington Post (understandably) contributes to a lot of the confusion because their articles always read like only the tournament winner has "won the league." This used to be even more apparent on the girls' side of things, in which the league tournament explicitly did not affect who got the banner -- it was all regular season -- and they would still report that the tournament winner had won the league. (Now the ISL, like the IAC, has a shared structure where the regular season winner wins a banner and if a different team wins the tournament they do as well).

Which team is "better" overall in a situation is which one wins the regular season, one the championship, is a like the equivalent of a hot stove league baseball conversation -- fun, maybe, but nobody is generally convinced that "their" team isn't the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:league championships in what this Fall?

Episcopal won the league in soccer I believe.

Bullis won the league in football (that is a whole seperate discussion in itself)

Did STA win the IAC banner in Cross Country?

In the IAC soccer, the banner is shared if there is a different regular season winner and tournament winner. (And this seems to change every year -- and maybe by sport -- some years/sports it is tournament only (as in IAC lacrosse, in recent years, maybe?), but in soccer this for the last several years it is shared unless the same team wins both and "unifies" the title.) St. Albans won the regular season so they share the banner with Episcopal, which won the tournament.

Bullis won the IAC in football.

St. Albans also won the banner in cross-country.

http://www.stalbansschool.org/document.doc?id=775

The above is a link to the IAC Constitution. Page 12 has determination of champions. Regular-season winner is conference champion, and if there is a different tournament winner they are co-champions.

[Anonymous]

the IAC has very stupid rules.

[Anonymous]

Has this thread really devolved into an argument for a soccer banner?????

Lol, no further comment needed