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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lack of government sponsored recreational sports has led to the single sport club athlete. This in turn has led to a bunch of schools with too many varsity level sports and not enough players to play. Even mighty GP had to give into eliminating the 3rd football team. SSSAS, Bullis, EP can't field independent varsity and jv teams in a number of sports. Landon and a bunch of other schools have 2-3 member sports like air rifle, squash, water polo. The IAC is essentially an independent conference. [/quote]

Let’s say what you say is true.

How does any of that lead to a realignment of conferences in the DMV?

What you seem to be suggesting is a bunch of different Conference alignments in the various sports.

How could that be managed and who would do it?

What I’ve seen is schools actually adding sports. Hockey and rugby didn’t exist in the IAC that many years ago. Now there seems to a high interest and participation in them.

Prep fielded freshman, JV and varsity football teams when they had 400 boys. Now they have 500 - 550 and don’t have enough players? That doesn’t seem right? [/quote]

It just seems kind of silly to be awarding IAC title flags in several of the IAC sports. The IAC is already so small and non competitive for most schools, the Title flag seems a little silly. SSSAS and EP aren't even trying. STA had a nice year in football because of literally 2 players but they have de-emphasized sports to a large degree. You are left with 3 schools, with one of them mortgaging themselves to death, who put any effort into sports.

GP got rid of their 3rd football team. They highly encourage freshman to join the team to create a bonding experience in their first semester of the school. This year's freshman/jv team had 5 sophomores. Any other kid who was any good was moved to varsity. This means kids aren't continuing to play after their first year. GP has gone heavily back to recruiting AA players and this forced the traditional full or mostly full pay student to the back of the roster and, subsequently, off the program for lack of playing time. Combine that with the nanny state of suburban moms and kids don't play. Right now, GP has a transfer problem because the admin has fallen back into the trap of athletic glory will lead to donations. It doesn't. [/quote]

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