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[quote=Anonymous]What apparently happened was that a vote was scheduled at that meeting of the IAC presidents to throw Prep out, but that vote was never held. Instead there was a conversation about "competitive balance" and adding new members to the Conference.

The competitive imbalance in the IAC has long been an irritant to the VA IAC schools and to Bullis. Prep has won "The Founders Cup" --- an award for overall athletic program success in the IAC --- 9 of the last 10 years. Prep and Landon pretty well dominate the conference in most sports.

Prep football was thrown out of the IAC because their objective of being one of the top programs in all of DC seemed to be in conflict with the smaller schools' goal of being competitive and occasionally wining the Conference.

The addition of more schools --- especially VA private schools --- would be a boon to SSSA and EHS. Potomac and Flint Hill are schools with which they could easily compete, they could build rivalries with, and they are conveniently located.

But it may be that schools like Potomac and Flint Hill are balking at joining a Conference that includes Prep. They want to join a conference in which they have a legitimate opportunity to win some titles. 
The “solution” to this problem is the commitment of all the schools to something they call “competitive balance”. What they have told Prep is that if you don’t find a way to ensure that there is “competitive balance” in athletics, then we are going to proceed to a vote on throwing you out of the IAC.

Apparently Prep’s President agreed to this “insuring competitive balance” concept at that meeting or at least he didn’t disagree which would have triggered the vote to expel Prep.

So how does Prep help the conference achieve “competitive balance”?  Easy to say. All they have to do is win less. But that’s very hard to do without creating an uproar in your own school among coaches, alumni, parents and students, who are used to winning and will quickly see what the Administration is doing to decrease competitiveness.

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