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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't worth it for a school saddled with over $20mm in construction debt and a low endowment to run a sports team like a college with large tuition discounts for several kids per year. Prep grew to 550 students and is still financially struggling despite being twice the cost of a Jesuit education anywhere else. Giblin's way did win a lot of games and did help a few kids per year go to selective colleges for lacrosse. But it didn't serve the school well to lump so much toward that. If Bullis and Landon want to overload in this direction then the healthier thing for Prep to do is remind itself to be an academic school first. Have a looksie at Bullis and Landkn matriculation numbers, then strip out lacrosse. Non athlete hooked kids from those schools don't go to selective colleges. So why run a school to benefit less than 5% of the kids who attended? That's dumb.

And maybe Prep can be great at baseball, tennis, golf, soccer, swimming or wrestling. Last time I checked those sports had 2x to 4x as many colleges with scholarship programs. In the bigger picture lacrosse did nothing to lift Prep during the Giblin years. Academically and financially the school only went worse in the last decade. Building another dorm and bringing back the old coach isn't what the administration is focused on now, or should they be. [/quote]

You are obviously math-challenged. While most colleges play baseball, tennis, etc, there are thousands of high schools that offer these sports and that supply athletes to them..

Not true of lacrosse. The ratio of high school students playing lacrosse to college roster spots is much higher than baseball, tennis, etc. And many of the colleges that play lacrosse are highly selective and much desired.

Prep isn't an academics first place and never has been. Parents send their boys there for the total experience. Prep serves a community and not a narrow slice of academically-focused and talented. A concept that the Sidwell people could never grasp.

And the student population is less than 500 (480?), not 550.[/quote]

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