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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's DeMatha or Gonzaga.  More people know sports than academics.[/quote]

Most people know neither. The only reason you know or care that those schools produce good athletes is because they are local schools. Lots of places have a local school or two that is known for some sports program or another, and can tell you "oh such and such athlete went there." But you or I would never recognize the name of the school because it's in Dallas or Denver or Atlanta or something.

People know Sidwell because it made the news a lot as the place that Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls went. It has nothing to do with academics. It has to do with fame. People care about where very famous people go.[/quote]

This is just completely wrong. Just because you don’t follow football or basketball doesn’t mean that millions and millions of people do. Sidwell is fairly well known because the Clintons and Obamas but you grossly underestimate how many people could name more than a handful of the high school football powers. [/quote]

I do follow pro football and basketball. I could not tell you where most football players attended high school. I might be able to tell you "they're from Texas" or something. Basketball is a bit different but honestly, once they are in the NBA who cares. There are lots of  basketball programs in the country that have produced well known basketball players. I only notice the ones who went to DeMatha because DeMatha is local to me. My brother is also a big basketball fan but he lives in California and when I mentioned DeMatha to him he was like "that sounds kind of familiar" but he would not have been able to produce the name on his own.

Meanwhile if you asked people in podunk Iowa what Sidwell is, more of them could tell you "didn't the Obama kids go to school there?" than tell you about DeMatha or Gonzaga. Except that most people would assume you were talking about the Gonzaga college basketball program.[/quote]

Not every school on this list is recognizable to the casual basketball fan, but many hardcore hoops fans are familiar with teams in the top ten, including #5.

https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/greatest-high-school-basketball-teams-de1f0baf83734149[/quote]

Right, hardcore basketball fans. NOT the average person.[/quote]

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