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All the Inter-Ac schools have their share of mouth breathers, whether via athletic scholarships (they call it tuition assistance, like the Ivies) or - far more prevalent - via legacy admits who suffer from [Censored] son syndrome but whose families can pay full freight and donate significantly and consistently. At least the former bring something to the table through socioeconomic diversity and winning programs that generate donations by the families of the latter and so on and so on. Been that way for decades and will keep on. That said, they do boot students for consistently poor academic performance. I mean, you have to REALLY fail to fail out, but it happens, or, more likely, there’s an agreement that Colton or Riley or whatever would be better off somewhere less rigorous. The comment about an academic slide is way off, which is easily verified by SAT/ACT scores, national merit scholarships and AP credits awarded, which for all the Inter-Acs are quite high (some more than others of course but as a group still much higher than public or parochial or even other privates, but the number of acceptances to Penn or Williams isn’t the end-the-conversation metric you’d think, bc plenty of dense legacy kids go Ivy and equivalent as legacies there, too. Fairness would be eliminating legacy admits and upping tuition assistance across the board, and if that includes a bump for athletics, so be it if the kid can manage the significant and strenuous workload with at least a C+/B- average. But that’ll never happen bc that tuition assistance has to come from somewhere.

Are NXT and Nationals linked together? Why did the NXT kids play for Nationals against NXT in multiple age groups? Do the national teams take precedence over local club?

NXT and Nationals are not linked; you could argue Fusion and Nationals are, as the Gonzalez brothers run the Nationals.
That said, after what G did when he was w the Duke’s, can’t imagine someone entrusting their child w them but…

I’d guess you are talking about Nations Best (not Nationals). Then yes there is a relationship

Oh goodie....here we go again!

No, the NXT players that played with Nationals instead of NXT. Sheesh, they play for Nations Best as well?

More G and Duke’s talk? No thank you

Seriously. They should start a podcast in the topic they talk about it so much.

Considering Radnor and LaSalle both are 0 and 2, DWest, DEast and Springfield are the front runners.

Rustin is probably better than DEast, DWest, and Springfield. Spring Ford actually beat Springfield.

Laughable to say Rustin is probably better than Deast. Deast has 4 returning all state players. With strong junior and sophomore classes.

Maybe, just maybe you want to look at who Lasalle and Radnor have played

I would not say "laughable". You could easily make the argument that Rustin has the most potent attack line in the Chesmont, and they do have their own "all state" player at midfield and a very good goalie. I agree that Deast is the better team, but Rustin is not far behind and Rustin has about half the student population that Deast pulls from.

That kid from Wissahickon is incredible. Radnor is still the top team then Deast, Dwest, maybe Spring Ford and Springfield but Wissahickon is stepping up to that second tier.