"They consider us their feeder programs, so they are willing," he said.

Those classes act as feeder programs, preparing students to participate in the Saturday classes.

The prep schools, however, remain established feeder programs for the service academies' football teams, a relationship the academy coaches do their best to maximize.

This is also the feeder program into the Leadership Training program, which develops the leadership skills to become a full-time counselor at camp.

Some classes have acquired the reputation among parents - exaggerated, it seems - of being feeder programs to preschools that are feeder programs to private schools.

So we run a kind of feeder program for the high school.

USC also has several thousand future students in feeder programs at surrounding technical colleges.

Roush Racing is one of the teams that has created a feeder program.

Meadowdale has a feeder program that develops 5th through 8th grade basketball players who will eventually attend the high school.

"These days, you have good teams because there are good feeder programs in the towns," she said.