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[quote=Anonymous]In the IAC, the three teams at the top are Prep, Episcopal, and Bullis.

Episcopal has something like seven starters that came from a Canadian football academy, and multiple Division I commits.  Bullis graduated some strong talent but still has a lot of talent.  They recruit aggressively and haven't hesitated to bring in upperclass recruits, even seniors.

Prep appears to the most "home-grown" of these three programs, with the fewest students transferring in.  They are fairly big for the IAC and basically blow teams off the line and create holes for the running game.  Accurate that Prep has emphasized football more after some years where lacrosse got top priority.  They have a significant advantage in having approximately 500 boys in the high school -- the next closest is Landon with something like 340 boys.

The remaining three schools in the IAC in terms of relative football strength are Landon, St. Stephens St. Agnes, and St. Albans.  St. Albans has been down the past several years but may be closer to Landon and SSSAS this year.  Does not seem likely that they'll be able to play Prep close, in part because they have a small roster and many players play on both sides of the ball while Prep has a pretty deep roster.

The IAC used to field fairly home-grown football teams but now, in part because of the increasing reluctance of parents to allow their lacrosse/hockey/baseball/basketball playing sons to play football as their second sport, there is much more of this targeted recruiting.  Bullis and Episcopal are outliers on the recruiting but all of the schools will have to do it just to field teams, with the possible exception of Prep, which could field a team numerically because of its size but must recruit to match the talent of the players Bullis and Episcopal are bringing in.[/quote]

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