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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If they keep up their current approach, they won't leave the IAC voluntarily. They will just be thrown out using the same logic that Bullis used when it led the charge for Prep football to be expelled. So much for your strange idea that the other IAC schools won't back down from an athletic challenge.

The other schools just aren't going to start chasing athletic glory using the same techniques (e.g. Mass transfers of football players in).

And Bullis will never be a Prep or Landon or STA "Rival". The school just isn't viewed as an equal. As has been said many, many times, Bullis is the public school you pay for[/quote]

Well said. Bullis will be kicked out soon if they continue to keep up their current approach.

Every school in the IAC has their hands in the recruiting ring, I am not denying this. Bullis however operates on an entirely different level. This year alone, their lacrosse team added in a very high profile transfer from STAB and another kid from Sidwell. There football team has brought in at least 6 new faces for the football season (maybe even more). It will be interesting to see how many stay enrolled in the school after football season ends. Yes folks, Bullis brings in kids for a semester.

Falls Road has fully embraced a win at all costs mentality and the IAC will do something about them very soon. [/quote]

I think they must know that they can't continue down this path without being thrown out of the IAC. Bullies is, after all, the school that led the effort to do that to Prep.

But I think they will continue to emphasize Athletics and take these shortcuts until they are made to stop with threats of expulsion.

Bullis probably sees this as one of the key strategies that they can stop being Bullis in the minds of their core market of Montgomery County residents who are looking for an alternative to the public schools. They need to change the perception of the school as being second-rate. And they badly need the exposure and internal pride that very good sports programs generate.  When you are as far behind as Bullis was (is.?), just continuing to do the same things the same way is not going to close the gap.

Building a high profile athletic program is not an unheard of strategy to improve the standing of a school. The question is how long the other IAC schools allow them to do it.
 
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