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I have heard that the IAC is interested in Potomac and Sidwell, never Flint Hill.  (Doesn't mean that hasn't changed or hasn't been discussed, but I've never heard it.)  Out of comity, I don't think they would blow up the MAC by asking just 1-2 teams to join.  Some people have suggested that they take the approach of the ISL (biggest independent school girls' league), by having upper and lower divisions, so it is a set-up like English Premier league soccer with "relegation" on a sport-by-sport basis (bottom team in top division swaps places with top team in lower division each year).  I have heard that more as a "thinking outside the box" idea rather than a concrete proposal, however.[/quote]

Interesting. But there is no such thing as "The IAC" in the sense there is a Big Ten or and ACC. There isn't any central entity that would do any kind of planning. There is no staff. There is no President or Director or Commissioner. (I believe the WCAC does have a commissioner, but he has very little power)

The IAC is just meetings between AD and meeting between school heads.

They meet and argue about and sometimes agree on things like the structure of individual sport playoffs.

When the ACC and B1G expanded, it was because these conferences have central administrations that care about the long term health of the conference.

The English football model is a great one. But there is absolutely zero chance it would ever occur in the DC area non-WCAC private school world because there is no one in charge of a single league, let alone a number of leagues.

A concept like inviting new schools would require some one to champion the idea and to sell it to enough of the other schools to have it succeed (e.g, kicking GP football out of the IAC twice.)[/quote]

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