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Using Facilities spending as an indicator of commitment to Athletics is a risky proposition[/quote]

What's risky about it? Prep's facilities were certainly adequate when they had their win streak in football and their run of success in lacrosse. They went YUGE on their sports facilities which was a pretty big affirmation to their commitment to sports as an institution. I'm not knocking it, I think sports are incredibly important, especially in high school. I think what the DCUM world finds funny is the Prep faithful claiming that "lacrosse is not a priority".....Prep finished in the top four in one of the most competitive lacrosse conferences in the country, an accomplishment that 99.9% of the schools fielding lacrosse teams would never come close to. I am certain the little Hoyas will return to the mountain top and I am certain that the Prep boosters will be happy about this...until then it's Bullis.[/quote]

It was explained to you in a post above that the large investment in facilities did not result in any greater emphasis on sports success at Prep.

Preps periods of football dominance occurred when they had the old facilities which may have been the worst in the IAC.

Finishing "in the top four" in a five team Conference hardly seems like much of an accomplishment.

Who knows what the future will hold. I wouldn't be sure of anything. But it highly unlikely that lacrosse will have the same emphasis and support as it did in Giblin's hey days.

I doubt you'll see Prep trying to chase Bullis which appears to be using Athletic success as a way of shedding it's long-standing reputation as a sort of provisional IAC school. It's technically in the Conference,but not thought of in the same way as the other schools. [/quote]

Amazing and hilarious how ignorant these posters are....no credibility at all. Prep has already been kicked out of the conference TWICE for hyper focus on recruiting and failing to uphold the mission of the IAC. If anything, Prep's football program was a provisional member of the IAC for years. Per the WashPost:

The Little Hoyas were voted out of the conference after the 2003 season, in which they won their fourth consecutive IAC title. The Rockville institution played one more season in the conference, going 4-6 in 2004. The IAC is a six-team league founded in 1958 that includes St. Albans, Bullis, Landon, Episcopal and St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes.

[b]The decision to ban the Hoyas for the second time in four decades[/b] (they’d also been asked to leave in 1970) came because of the enrollment advantage Prep held over its IAC competitors [b]and its increased efforts to draw top football talent to the school— efforts other conference schools were not willing or able to match[/b]. They were invited back into the IAC in 2014....Georgetown Prep has been a valued member of the IAC since its inception, and we welcome the football program back into league competition,” Landon headmaster and IAC President David Armstrong said in Friday’s release. “League members are also excited to welcome a new President from Prep into our community, [b]someone who will carry on, we are certain, the rich traditions of the school and the athletic mission of the IAC.[/b]”
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