<p>Hiya,
Alright ive been lookign around the forum and alot of people are asking and in some of the older threads about small schools athletic programs and how they can compare to large schools. I want to ask what you guys think and give me some feed back here are some Pro's and Con's of Small school vs. Large school. If you have any input on pros and cons reply on a comment. i just though of a few pros and cons to start it off.</p>
<p>Small School.</p>
<p>Pros</p>
<p>-may specialize in certain sports such as rowing or rugby. the school may have a strong history of certain sports achievments and this school may recuit students for this certain sport.
- may only have a few sports to choose from but the sports that they have are undeafeted.
- team quality is alot better
Cons
- small school may have less finances therefore not that good facilities.
- not many students to choose from so they may have teams that do not require a "try-out"</p>
<p>Large School </p>
<p>Cons
- very wide rage of sports so the school many not focus on a specific sport so the teams are quantity or quality</p>
<p>in my opinion, large school athletics >>> small school athletics, for the most part…</p>
<p>i don’t understand this:
- team quality is alot better
- not many students to choose from so they may have teams that do not require a “try-out”
^ that doesn’t add up… ? if they don’t require try-outs, then wouldn’t the quality drop…</p>
<p>first, there are small schools that are extremely resource-rich (e.g., st. paul’s) and there are large schools that are resource-thin. check boardingschoolreview.com for the sizes of endowments, how many sports are supported, etc. at the schools in which you’re interested.</p>
<p>other really key differences between schools will revolve around how many or how few of their athletes are recruits and post-graduates. at some schools, you’ll find that the large majority of players on a varsity team, say basketball, are recruits and PG’s. in those cases, there are often only limited varsity opportunities for the kid who may have been a middle school standout but not quite recruit quality.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t call SPS a small school, i’d call groton/mx a small school. what would you define as a ‘small school’?</p>
<p>no what i meant by quality was that some schools may only offer a few sports but the sports that they do have they focused on more than a school where students play a number of sports throughtout the seasons for example. a school that has a long history of rowing may have-- pre-season rowing in the fall, training in the winter, and varsity in the spring. so they students are only focused on one sport</p>
<p>and when i mean " small school" i am talking about schools that have like 250-350 students. SPS has like 600 almost it is not a small school.</p>
<p>any school in the ISL or founders league has fairly good athletics
anything below that like MBIL the level of play drops throughout all levels of sports
for example the ISL soccer league containing many small schools has produced some of the nations top talents IE charlie davies [Charlie</a> Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Davies]Charlie”>Charlie Davies - Wikipedia) who went to brooks and is arguably the best prep soccer league in the country
MX and Groton have good athletics not quite as good as some of the larger schools but are in no means dropping a level down as i said before it is Class C or Class D schools where the level drops significantly also at least at MX for all V and JV teams there are cuts while there are no cuts for thirds but i could be wrong I would say that almost all ISL schools recruit talented athletes who can make a difference at the varsity level also if you are wondering about athletic facilities i can only attest to MX’s but the school has some of the nicest
fields i have ever seen or at least for soccer 4 large grass fields and 2 astro turf fields [Middlesex</a> School ~ Alumni in Sports](<a href=“http://www.mxschool.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=100121]Middlesex”>http://www.mxschool.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=100121)</p>
<p>The ISL school did not produce Charlie Davies. He did play club soccer. He played for Seacoast for a bit, then somewhere else…not sure. But he played club all through high school which is what brought him where he is today.</p>
<p>That being said, you do, for the most past, get a heck of a lot better school sport season in a prep school than you would at most public schools.</p>
<p>I know that I’m just saying that prep schools attract very good athletes
After seacoast I beileve FC delco flew him down to play with them every weekend but I could be wrong</p>