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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ you are all over the place.

Lax get kids into great school and the best internships. Prep cares. [/quote]

You think you know, but you don't.

They care, of course, but not anywhere near as much as you think they do or should.

For every Lax player that gets into a top school, there are the parents of several others at the school who were better students that didn't get into that college or university. College Counseling has to face these people and tell them life is unfair.

You predicted Urick will be fired because you are clueless about the priorities of the school and the politics on campus. The school does care about as much as they care about the basketball, baseball or soccer programs. But no more than that. If they did, Giblin would still be the coach.[/quote]

The point being made is that lax is held in high regard by many top notch academic colleges and that any IAC school would do well to provide a strong lax program to help student athletes get to best possible college. Football is on the wane nationally and does not have the same academic culture. The problem for Prep is that its lax reputation (built from the past) does not match the current reality of on field performance. [/quote]

The point being missed is that these Lax recruits are a tiny percentage of the graduating class of 125 boys. They are not representative of where the great majority of Prep grads go to college and everyone knows it. In fact, when Prep or any of these schools boast of acceptances at top schools, people discount this for the number of these they believe are athletic recruits.

[b]Football's decline is being way overstated. Over 1 million boys played high school football last fall and the number is up, not down.[/b]

A number of factors have lead to the decline of the Prep program. The rise of Gonzaga, a much lower cost Catholic alternative. The appointment of a coach with none of the power Giblin had (The Mater Dei Program and connection and 27 years worth of alums and the connections formed with the Alumni, both players and parents).

Finally the rise of lacrosse across the country is going to decrease the number of kids that are recruited out of DMV schools as colleges can get better athletes in Ohio, Texas and California.

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https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2726124-report-shows-continuing-drop-in-high-school-football-players

While you are correct that a million boys participated in Football, you are incorrect that the number is up.[/quote]

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