Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
The MIAA in Lacrosse is still the SEC in college football.

There are up years and down years. But it’s still the strongest and most respected conference in the country. By A LOT.

It all comes down to money. The kids in the Baltimore and DC area will travel to wherever they get the sweetest deal.

St. Johns and Spalding have proven it. None of those starters lives within 2 miles of those schools. The best kids may live within 30 miles of DC or Baltimore, but they will play wherever the grass is greenest regardless of conference or tradition or anything else.

If the DC schools open their purses, the MIAA disappears.

What is this "2 mile standard." The tolerance standard is about a 60 minute bus ride each way. Plenty of public school kids live 30+ minutes from school due to traffic, even if it's only 10 miles away.

There's an EW line (or really a transition zone), roughly Columbia ESE to maybe Edgewater/Dunkirk. North of that zone, nobody is commuting to a WCAC school. South of that zone, nobody is commuting to a MIAA school aside from maybe Spalding or St. Marys. Unless schools are giving out free housing a la St. Frances, it's not a money thing at all.


Of course its a money thing hence SJC and Spaldings sudden emergence.They have out paid and played the MIAA and WCAC teams over the past 4 years. Open purses? They have war chests and have simply played the old Elite shools game better. Gonzaga ,Dematha SJC,landon Bullis all pay and always have or else they wouldnt survive. Its no different than the decades old way of the MIAA. Dont confuse a few good years with the tradition of superior week in and week out league play of the MIAA.