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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's unclear to me what GPs being kicked out of the IAC for football have to do with anything.

It's like the Sesame Street song, "One of these is not like the others".

In the world of the IAC, it's Bullis who is not like the others.[/quote]

From PP it appears Prep was the original Bullis then toned it down[/quote]

Prep's two periods of football dominance were based upon the excellence and attractiveness of the football program in that era. Except for Marcus Mason, these teams were filled with kids who were part of the group from which Prep would normally recruit. (Catholics from lower Montgomery County and NW DC)

Bullis's latest foray is much different. This is a tops-down school-wide strategy to try and improve the school by leading with the Athletic program. They have cast a wide net even to far-flung counties to do this. People aren't stupid. They see what's going on.

Ironically, GP's last expulsion from IAC football was led by the Bullis Head, who said he feared for the safety of his players.[/quote]

Since this is a lax board, let's bring it back to lax. Looking at this objectively based on performance, Bullis is on the rise along with St Johns, Gonzaga, and even Paul VI at the expense of Prep, St, Albans and Landon. Calling out Bullis for excessive recruiting in lax is pretty silly as all IAC schools actively recruit for student athletes. The biggest investment made by the Bullis school is in a STEM/Engineering facility not a new athletics complex as was the case with Prep. Bullis does host a lot of camps and clubs on their campus to generate revenue. Trippi the Metro player of the year in 2017 was at Bullis in middle school...the other top players were recruited from the DMV region...also note that the Bullis players seem to be going to some pretty good colleges: Ivies, Naval Academy, Duke with a few solid D3's mixed in so they're not dummies. Prep still actively recruits for all sports from well outside the DMV due to its boarding program in excess of what other IAC schools (with possible exception of Episcopal) are capable of doing....As an example, Prep's best senior attackman was a HS freshman in Florida and then moved to the area to play lax at Prep and re-classed. Prep also brought in a Fogo/Mid from Episcopal as a junior. It would be great for the region to see Prep become a dominant program again, but don't think that is going to happen w/o a change at the top. The irony is that Prep was so dominant under Giblin for so many years because he worked his tail off recruiting kids as young as middle school getting them to come to play on his youth club teams or at his camps and then come to Prep. Now this crowd is heading to St Johns, Gonzaga or even Paul VI, and Bishop O'Connell....[/quote]

The difference is that Bullis actively goes after kids and offers them money to attend and play for them - regardless of financial need.  Its the only IAC school that does.  [/quote]

ahhhh, not so fast.  The Episcopal kid brought in by Prep was de-committed from Maryland and thrown out of Episcopal due to drug problems.  Bullis is not alone with their win at all cost mentality....[/quote]

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