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[quote=Anonymous]This is adapted from a post on another thread -- I realized it probably belongs on this thread more:

I am curious about how the various IAC schools keep up the numbers/talent in football.

--Bullis recruits aggressively mostly in the DMV and is willing to bring in upper class transfers. 
--Episcopal has developed a Division I pipeline from a Canadian "football academy" (not my phrase, that's how it's described), which provides the top level talent for that program. 
--Landon's legendary head lacrosse coach is an assistant football coach and actively encourages the lacrosse kids to play football -- I noticed that a top Division I lacrosse recruit blocked a field goal to help Landon win a recent game.  (Follow up: I wonder if that trend will continue when he retires? When STA last won the the IAC in football (2011, I think), a lot of the best football players were very good lacrosse and baseball players playing football as a second sport. That "second sport of football" seems to have dropped precipitously at STA, I assume mainly because of the concussion fears.) 
--St. Stephens St. Agnes, which has a very good lacrosse program, so scuffling in football this year in the league so far and I'm curious if the number of lacrosse/football two-fees has gone down. 
--STA used to rely a fair amount on athletes who identified more as baseball/lacrosse players and played football as a second sport.  They may be doing more football-specific recruiting now?
--Lastly, Prep has the advantage of having 500 boys and being high school only, so presumably they know a bit better if kids are going to play football when they apply and can target numbers and talent, but do they have a lot of football/lax two-fers? Or football/baseball two-fers?

I'm not trying to start a mudslinging match about recruiting, etc. -- I'm honestly curious how to keep numbers up in football in this independent school environment (one-sport specialization and off-season club commitments, relatively small student bodies, prevalence of youth soccer, concussion concerns). Is it a "build it and they will come" scenario, in which, if you have a winning program, you'll get a big roster because home-grown athletes want to play? Or are all the schools essentially going to have to recruit for the majority of their football rosters? [/quote]

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