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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure that's true on a per capita basis since Landon invented reclassing in the IAC and Bullis and Episcopal allow upper school athlete transfers to reclass.   Some of the resident students from China at Prep have skipped a grade.   [/quote]

Pretty sure none of the exchange students are picking up a long stick or protecting the quarterback's blind side.  [/quote]

This is such a stupid counter argument.  Let's say there are 100 boarding students at Prep and none of them play sports (which is untrue).  So 25 kids per grade who aren't contributing to athletics at Prep.

At every IAC school, there are similarly at least 25 boys in every HS grade who aren't contributing meaningfully to a Varsity sport.

Nice try.[/quote]

It's not a stupid argument.  About 115 (according to their own site) of the students are boarders.  Prep (again, according to their own site) has 496 students.  Most of the boarders come from east Asian countries or Latin America.  Those kids are playing lax, basketball or football.  Some contribute in other sports such as soccer, tennis, wrestling or baseball.  The argument that Prep has 500 Mater Dei kids who are all sports fanatics enrolled there is just flat out false and ignores the reality that about 23% of their student body has absolutely not intention of ever playing the big 3 sports.

And yes, there are also day students from parochial schools that have no interest in sports just like any other IAC school.

No question that athletics are big at Prep.  There is equally no question that a sizable portion of the student body will never contribute in the sports that receive the most attention.

https://www.gprep.org/about/fast-facts
https://www.gprep.org/boarding[/quote]

I have no problem with prep as a school. It seems like a very nice school but you have to admit that if they have 125 kids in a grade and competing against schools like Landon and STA which only have 80 or 85 then yes that is an advantage for Prep especially on a football team. Prep’s football team is very large and the potential to add 40 additional kids to a team certainly makes a difference. [/quote]

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