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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a potentially toxic thing to suggest, but if Prep really wants to get with the times like the Founders league boarding schools, they should raise or borrow the dough to build a dorm for 30-40 PGs. It would totally screw the local kids out of being the stars or even being on the field in some varsity sports, but it would be a HUGE money maker. Deerfield has averaged 9 lacrosse PGs a year over the last 7 years. Totally f's the kids who go there as 9th graders waiting for their chance as they grade up, but every PG is full pay and most are panic need to repeat a year because the school they committed to either didn't accept them or urged a PG year for recruiting spacing purposes. It is the lowest of the low, but the money is good. [/quote]

It's an interesting suggestion, but it's got a fatal flaw. There's no schools to compete with. There's no other schools here that offer a PG year, that I know of.

In New England and in NJ (Lawrenceville, Peddie, Hun, Blair Academy, Hill outside of Phila) there are enough schools with PG programs that these schools can play one another and even then there are limits as to how many PGs they can have.

Prep already has the Tennis bubble. Someone suggested a hockey rink given the demand for ice time by youth, high school and adult programs. At a point in time, the campus starts to take on the appearance and feel of a State Fair with all these separate franchises running.

Sooner or later they are going to have to put on a major fund raising effort to get the school back to what it used to be - a school for the smart Catholic boys with a reasonable price tag and a big enough FA budget to assist those in their community that need it.

Who knows, if they can get the price down low enough they can stop pretending to be St Albans or Landon, and move to the Catholic League (WCAC) and be the "Duke" or "Northwestern" of that Conference.[/quote]

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