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If you are 5 years out of college and resent an individual based purely on where one attended High School, what does that say about you as an individual?
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I’d say they had long memories, no reason to change their opinions, an existent tight knit circle of friends from GP and plenty of other alternatives based on rediscovering friendships with those that went to Gonzaga and St Johns and even public schools.

There’s a fundamental disconnect in the GP-Landon relationship. I’ve always thought Landon espoused what I think of as the English Private School/Ivy League approach to athletics. The idea is to win and you have to do everything in your power to do it. At the end of the day, you should respect those that have shown themselves to be worthy. And from respect it’s not far to friendship. We have, after all participated in these great struggles that should bind us together. We are, just like you, wonderful fellows underneath it all.

In order for this to work, both camps have to buy in to the last part concept and by and large the GP people do not.

The GP people, looking across the field or gym, aren’t thinking about the privilege of participating and the potential for friendship based on mutual respect and based on shared experience. What they see is someone desperate to beat them. What they see are the hats turned backwards, the strutting and the flexing of newly-earned muscles. What they hear is the “We Don’t Mess Around” chant. What they gather is that there really are fundamental reasons to why everyone at the school going back decades dislikes these "others".

So while there is some grudging respect, especially when an opponent is punching above their weight, no affection is going to follow.  The Landon people are surprised and a little disoriented by this.  It’s as if both schools are in a play and have been given different scripts. The Landon version has this stuff about glory of shared struggle and the GP version does not.

That’s why there are questions about why those GP guys I used to compete against are still giving me the cold shoulder. 
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