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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St. Albans graduated the best goalie it’ll ever have 2 years ago.  It graduated the best FOGO it’ll ever have this year.  The days of an above 500 season with an upset or two thrown in are now in the rear view mirror.  Time for the team to leave the IAC and make room for a school that can handle the IAC juggernaut [/quote]

ST Albans doesn't need to leave the IAC so that another team can join. It's only a six team league.

And it's unlikely that the school will devote the kind of attention to the sport that Landon always has, GP has for decades and that Bullis and SSSA have recently. Getting very good in lacrosse would likely require trade-offs in Admissions, Financial Aid, Program expenditures (Number and compensation of Assistants, etc.) and outreach. (Camps, "Recruiting", etc). This would bring them into direct competition for lacrosse players and very good athletes that also play lacrosse with Landon, Prep, Gonzaga, Bullis and even St. John's.

I think when the school weighs the effort it would take to compete at the higher level, finishing below .500 wouldn't look so bad.

The alternative is to do what Sidwell did and drop down a league.

If Bullis, Landon, Prep and SSSA keep ratcheting up the effort in lacrosse and football, that might happen.

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If STA is competing with any of those schools for student athletes, it is most likely competing against Landon, Gonzaga and Prep out of that list.  Bullis, SSSA and St. Johns are steps too far below academically to have much serious overlap.

I just wonder what high school football looks like at these schools in 10 years.  Maybe Gonzaga, St. Johns and Bullis still have decent programs due to their numbers (Gonzaga) or the school culture and willingness to aggressively find players (Bullis and St. Johns), but I think the others will have trouble fielding teams. [/quote]

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