[White_Orpheus]

I think that what gets people is not just that Bellarmine is very successful, but they are a very affluent school compared to some other high schools. Sure, 254 has a bigger budget than a lot of other teams, and that makes it easy to knock them as a "engineered, NASA poster-child" team, but when it boils down to it, we've all simply been outclassed and outplayed. Even if 254 was running a budget equal to the smallest team in FIRST, they'd be able to pull off a quality robot. I'm sure their large budget helps them widen the already formidible gap in quality of their team to most others, but it isn't the deciding factor. These guys are simply that good, and the criticism leveled at them always will go hand in hand with success. Keep it up guys!