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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The DC private schools need to follow what the Baltimore private schools have done with the MIAA which has close to 30 members of all differnt kinds of schools layered in 3 different divisions for sports an A, B, and C division.

For Example, Gilman who is big time in football and lacrosse is in the A divisinon for those sports. Gilman is not that good in basketball and plays in the B division.

The DC schools from the MAC, WCAC and IAC should do the same thing and for all sports and each school should decide which level of competition they should play in for a particular sport.

Sidwell Friends for example is a big time soccer and wrestling school and would be able to compete with Prep and DeMatha in those sports in the A divison. but Sidewell might want to play in the C division for football.

Its a shame the headmasters at each school haven't figured this out yet as its not that hard. [/quote]

This approach has a lot to recommend it. It would allow smaller schools with one or more exceptional programs to compete against the best programs in that sport in the area. And these schools would be the primary beneficiaries of this.

But, in reality, it has zero chance of being implemented or even considered.
It would require a degree of cooperation that would be almost impossible to achieve in DC. It’s hard enough to get the schools within a Conference to agree. This idea of effectively blowing up the WCAC and the IAC and the MAC and substituting a three-tiered mega-conference would have to have widespread support.

I cannot see the most powerful athletic conference, the WCAC, agreeing to cede control and to have some of their programs dropped to a lower level, so that programs from non-WCAC might compete against DeMatha or whoever is at the top of the WCAC. Even the traditional athletic “have nots” in the WCAC cling to WCAC membership as something that makes the school special.

And the new system would effectively eliminate the special Catholic attribute of the WCAC. There would no longer be a “Catholic” school conference. Traditional rivalries would be disrupted. Saint John’s people --- even in minor sports --- expect to play Gonzaga and DeMatha, not Maret and Barrie.
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    Subject: Rumblings - Georgetown Prep May Leave the IAC, Setting Up Ripple Effect
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STA didn't play prep in football this year and that was unusual. I know players and fans prefer games that are more local. 3 out of 5 IAC football teams played Bishop Ireton and St Mary's Ryken near annapolis. Why??? No team closer? Who wants half the games to be against schools you know nothing about and are far? 1 or 2 road trip schools per season and try to keep those consistent. "

I also believe it is important to players and fans to have the traditional rivalries.   Not half the games be an ever changing potpourri of addresses where [b]players[/b] and fans say Where/who/what TF is that?  
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