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A little chippiness in a lacrosse game isn't even in the same universe as the decades long antipathy between GP and Landon.

Bullis, in spite of its recent foray into having more competitive teams, is just another team. And the kids are almost assuredly not aware of religions of the boys on the other team. To them these are just opponents standing between them and a win and hopefully an IAC title.

But they do feel that it you push us, we are going to push you back.[/quote]

Give it time, honey. As Bullis becomes dominant across the board, it will drive Prep crazy that it is not only a non catholic school, but a coed one at that. It doesn't take long for a rivalry to get heated. It's just that Landon and Prep have had staying power. Bullis doesn't look like it's going to slide back anytime soon in any sport. [/quote]

I doubt the rivalry between Bullis and any other IAC school will ever get as heated as Prep vs. Landon. These are schools that have very long histories playing one another in meaningful games. They also have similarities in terms of academic strength and the neighborhoods they draw students from although one is Catholic and one is not.

Bullis has always been seen as academically weaker than either Prep or Landon and way academically weaker than St Albans. If you think that these other schools have looked down their noses at Bullis for a long time, I think you might be more right than wrong.

None of these schools have completely clean hands when it comes to recruiting or admitting students based primarily on their athletic ability.

But Bullis appears to be taking it to a completely different level. There's a huge difference between having a few recruited athletes on a team and a team almost full of kids that would not be at the school if it were not for their athletic ability or their athletic goals.

Bullis might become "dominant across the board" as you suggest. But if they continue to do it they way they appear to doing it now, they aren't going to be thought of as a rival by any IAC school.

They'll just be a same old second-rate academic school they have always been but which  has chosen to emphasize athletics at a much higher level than the other schools.

Using history as a guide,  I don't think the other IAC schools are going to allow them to continue down this path.

Prep could easily move to the Catholic League (WCAC). I don't know where Bullis goes if the IAC decides they no longer want the school and its athletic department.

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