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[quote=Anonymous]14:03, I agree with a lot of your posts.  I can say that I have some good inside knowledge about how Bullis has been doing their FA.

In some cases, the athlete would qualify for FA anywhere.  There, the issue is that the IAC (in contrast to the WCAC) has not been a conference where schools seek out or even admit transfers in the senior year.  There has also been a reluctance to poach good athletes from other league schools.  Cries of "recruiting" per se leave me cold -- Landon and Prep do it aggressively, and the other league schools consistently if not to the same degree.

In some cases, however, some athletes are getting significantly more money than at their prior school (e.g., child with two working professional parents not on aid at all at prior school).  I don't like that philosophically and it is also an example of tilting the playing field.

Maybe Bullis is just out in front and the other conference schools will all join the arms race and admit seniors transfers, recruit from opposing schools, use big FA packages to outbid other schools.  Or maybe Bullis will get bounced from its leagues and/or find that the model is difficult to sustain financially.  They went this route before in the late 1990s and after a few years families got turned off by the fact that their kid who was on the team in the younger years would be replaced in the starting line-up by a transfer in the latter years; they also couldn't sustain the level of financial aid.

It doesn't mean it might not work now.  But it is a big change from the way they operated under their prior admin, and it is a big change in a publicly scrutinized area (sports).

So, time will tell.  If nothing else, this current admin team will keep everyone hopping.  They are not afraid to ruffle feathers.[/quote]

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