Bullis Lacrosse Situation

[Anonymous]

If JB is back, are the assistants gone?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least everyone knows now that DCE is a bunch of scumbags.

To Dad whose son was cut from DCE at some point, the bulk of DCE 2021 team has been playing together since elementary/middle school - prior to DCE being founded last year to enable this group to continue playing together through HS. Only 20% of the roster goes to Bullis. The other 80% are Landon/Prep/Gonzaga/publics who have nothing to do with Bullis....get your facts straight!

I'm not the poster you were responding to but I'm confused. In other words, DCE failed to accomplish their goal of keeping the 2021 team together through HS? Didn't you say that is why DCE was founded? I am missing your point. What's so great about DCE's role in the 2021 team at Bullis then? Why doesn't DCE go to Landon/Prep/Gonzaga/publics and try to take over their program then?

No, the 2021 team already existed prior to DCE being formed - this group stayed together by moving to DCE rather than splitting up and playing for Madlax/Crabs/Blackwolf. The point is that 80% of the players, the head coach and the asst head coach of the 2021 team are at other schools and have nothing to do with Bullis high school program!

Also,what are you talking about when you speak of a club program taking over a high school program?? Any top HS program has multiple feeders into its system and the HS staff calls the shots.

[Anonymous]

I am so tired of lacrosse drama...

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just googled Jeff to see what happening. This was the first link??

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/03/22/midshipmans-expulsion-raises-broader-issues/dd766180-b3cf-47be-8b43-ccd0614a22e2/?utm_term=.b312aeb34f59[/quote]

He was later reinstated and served in the Navy until he was 32, including serving in the Gulf War.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/13/us/around-the-nation-navy-reinstates-cadet-in-cocaine-case.html

https://www.thebullisbulldog.com/features/profile-coach-jeff-bellistri

Also, putting guilt or innocence aside, he was 23 and it happened over 30 years ago. [/quote]

So - did he graduate from the naval academy or not?

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/04/12/navy-secretary-reinstates-senior-midshipman/7b9d51a9-9ac3-4150-ada7-8fc0069d7587/?utm_term=.c32fe583c9c9

Be graduatex from the naval academy and became a pilot - why all the trash bring thrown around about the man? I don’t know him or have any kids playing g lacrosse but I’m 100% sure that all of you were 100% stupider as young people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was with a son of a Bullis board member last night in Bethesda. 4 Administrators and 2 Board members were on the committee that was looking into some internal issues w the program. They started in June. Talked to roughly 10 parents on the team of varying ages, as well as some club owners in DC and Virginia. Didn’t like what they heard, which started whole process of moving on from current coach. Eventually voted 6-0 to move on and interview candidates.

Then it became public and administration couldn’t handle the pressure, thus the mess. My buddy’s Dad is pretty darn annoyed at whole thing. The whole mess has really endangered the future of the program.

Plenty of blame to go around, that is true. Board, JB, DCE, Administration. Pick whatever order you’d like.

What a s-show.
What specifically did the committee not like? What was so bad that it would outweigh the recent successs of the program?

A high school sports program should be about the students who attend the school playing the sport at the school. It shouldn’t be about bringing in some allegedly stronger players to play instead. This is high school - ‘building the program’?? It’s not a pro sports team. There are so many completely insane parents around these days. So so many.

I guess that I should go back to the Stone Age , but this is all so stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure why all the hate towards DCE. They run a business and really don’t hide from that. You can run a biz and still benefit the kids, btw. They partnered w a willing school for field space. The school, in return, showed off its facilities and got a bunch of great to avg players on the campus all Spring, while also making some field rent money. BLC also rents field space there for younger teams. Smart by Bullis, in my opinion.

At the same time, some DCE coaches were also hired by school to assistant coach. Seems pretty smart to me as this set up got them one great class (6 kids from DCE 2021 team). Sadly, ego’s and the inability to share credit for Bullis success got the staff to fracture. No leadership from HC or school to keep it together. School tried to fix it, made a move to change coaches and then was rebuffed by a few very loud parents and alums w no eye toward the future (the parents are all senior parents, mostly on attack and alums voices were lead by son of HC).

Based on everything I have read and heard, this about sums it up.

PS- Yes my son plays for a DCE orange team, was recruited to Bullis but chose to stay public.

Not quite accurate. A good business is a good business but you have to operate with integrity and your assessment does not sum it up.

Real story is that the DCE assistant coaches put $ and ego over honesty and leadership. Two DCE assistants weren't hired as head coach 4 years ago so when they came on as assistants coach they started plotting behind JB for 2 years rather than being role models and team players. DCE was in bed from the start with a couple of Board members and Assistant Head who were salivating over DCE money and enabled bad behavior by DCE assistants, to include treating the DCE players like prima donnas, insulting players who weren't DCE, creating fracture within the team and coaching staff, and making inappropriate statements to players including about girls. That is on DCE coaches and lack of leadership at Bullis. DCE coaches complain about petty issues about credit (issues HC had no control over) exposing their true interest is not in developing strong student athletes and honorable citizens but rather promoting their own self-interests - everyone could have shared in the success but DCE coaches made it all about them.

Uprising of support for JB from across the world - literally - was not limited to Bullis alum and not led by HC son. It included students from other schools, parents of former students, college coaches, college players, MLL players, mentees AND years and years of lacrosse alum who will be essential donors to help grow the program into the future, It was motivated by people who know the caliber that Bullis can and should be and know the high caliber and strong coaching and leadership of JB. Don't dismiss the support of over 1000 people as a counter balance to a few corrupt DCE coaches and Board members. Bullis success happened in spite of DCE assistants, not because of them. DCE may have great club teams and be a fine business but not lead by fine men.

Latest is Bullis sent letter confirming JB remains HC and will take the program forward.

+1 Very well said. Sums up everything our family has seen and experienced.

+1

[Anonymous]

not a fan of Bullis at all but Bellistri served in the Navy.

I pay my respects to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was with a son of a Bullis board member last night in Bethesda. 4 Administrators and 2 Board members were on the committee that was looking into some internal issues w the program. They started in June. Talked to roughly 10 parents on the team of varying ages, as well as some club owners in DC and Virginia. Didn’t like what they heard, which started whole process of moving on from current coach. Eventually voted 6-0 to move on and interview candidates.

Then it became public and administration couldn’t handle the pressure, thus the mess. My buddy’s Dad is pretty darn annoyed at whole thing. The whole mess has really endangered the future of the program.

Plenty of blame to go around, that is true. Board, JB, DCE, Administration. Pick whatever order you’d like.

What a s-show.
What specifically did the committee not like? What was so bad that it would outweigh the recent successs of the program?

A high school sports program should be about the students who attend the school playing the sport at the school. It shouldn’t be about bringing in some allegedly stronger players to play instead. This is high school - ‘building the program’?? It’s not a pro sports team. There are so many completely insane parents around these days. So so many.

I guess that I should go back to the Stone Age , but this is all so stupid.

Agree re 'insane parents'. Again, need to get facts straight. The 2 Board members already in bed with DCE requested a committee because the DCE coaches didnt' like that HC changed their roles on the team after a spate of losses early in the season culminating with the Landon loss. HC changed the roles because HC saw a need for change and that change paid off - the team morale improved and the team started to win, all the way to IAC championship. However, because the DCE coaches and a few disgruntled parents couldn't see beyond their own self-interest they continued to undermine the success of the program and Bullis School. Don't forget this all goes back to DCE wanting to make money off of Bullis and deciding a couple of years ago that the only way to do it was to consistently undermine HC, collude with a couple of Board members, fuel dissent with a few disgruntled parents and try to take over program. Not with integrity and not with quality leadership.

[Anonymous]

This is some crazy conspiracy-theory stuff! Are we really talking about a high school sport?

Newsflash-outside of the D.C. area no one cares where you went to H.S. or what sport you played. Somebody needs to remind these crazy lax parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is some crazy conspiracy-theory stuff! Are we really talking about a high school sport?

Newsflash-outside of the D.C. area no one cares where you went to H.S. or what sport you played. Somebody needs to remind these crazy lax parents.

Unfortunately what is really fueling this is not the HS stuff but College recruiting. The D1 colleges that recruit for lacrosse are some of the best colleges in the nation ie: Duke, Brown, Cornell, Princeton UNC at Chapel Hill, Notre Dame, Penn etc. Kids that otherwise would not have a chance to get admitted to these schools can use their lacrosse abilities to get in. It also gives the school a better list of college acceptances.

[Anonymous]

This is too much. Time to lock this thread.

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was with a son of a Bullis board member last night in Bethesda. 4 Administrators and 2 Board members were on the committee that was looking into some internal issues w the program. They started in June. Talked to roughly 10 parents on the team of varying ages, as well as some club owners in DC and Virginia. Didn’t like what they heard, which started whole process of moving on from current coach. Eventually voted 6-0 to move on and interview candidates.

Then it became public and administration couldn’t handle the pressure, thus the mess. My buddy’s Dad is pretty darn annoyed at whole thing. The whole mess has really endangered the future of the program.

Plenty of blame to go around, that is true. Board, JB, DCE, Administration. Pick whatever order you’d like.

What a s-show.
What specifically did the committee not like? What was so bad that it would outweigh the recent successs of the program?

A high school sports program should be about the students who attend the school playing the sport at the school. It shouldn’t be about bringing in some allegedly stronger players to play instead. This is high school - ‘building the program’?? It’s not a pro sports team. There are so many completely insane parents around these days. So so many.

I guess that I should go back to the Stone Age , but this is all so stupid.

Agree re 'insane parents'. Again, need to get facts straight. The 2 Board members already in bed with DCE requested a committee because the DCE coaches didnt' like that HC changed their roles on the team after a spate of losses early in the season culminating with the Landon loss. HC changed the roles because HC saw a need for change and that change paid off - the team morale improved and the team started to win, all the way to IAC championship. However, because the DCE coaches and a few disgruntled parents couldn't see beyond their own self-interest they continued to undermine the success of the program and Bullis School. Don't forget this all goes back to DCE wanting to make money off of Bullis and deciding a couple of years ago that the only way to do it was to consistently undermine HC, collude with a couple of Board members, fuel dissent with a few disgruntled parents and try to take over program. Not with integrity and not with quality leadership.

Agree it’s insane for sure. The whole sad affair. Question as you only reference the Board members in your post being in bed with DCE. What about the 4 Administrators that also voted for a coaching change? What do you thin there motives were? Doesn’t seem to all add up, though most of it does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was with a son of a Bullis board member last night in Bethesda. 4 Administrators and 2 Board members were on the committee that was looking into some internal issues w the program. They started in June. Talked to roughly 10 parents on the team of varying ages, as well as some club owners in DC and Virginia. Didn’t like what they heard, which started whole process of moving on from current coach. Eventually voted 6-0 to move on and interview candidates.

Then it became public and administration couldn’t handle the pressure, thus the mess. My buddy’s Dad is pretty darn annoyed at whole thing. The whole mess has really endangered the future of the program.

Plenty of blame to go around, that is true. Board, JB, DCE, Administration. Pick whatever order you’d like.

"Was with a son of a Bullis board member last night in Bethesda". One might ask what is a Bullis Board member doing talking to their son on sensitive personnel matterss, and then that son (inaccurately) sharing information with you. Unethical? Against Bullis Board charter? Maybe that needs a committee to investigate. Time to close down this thread.