CH vs MSJ 14-3
Spalding vs JC 15-7
BL vs Gillman 16-3
McD vs Severn 11-3
These scores can’t be right. MIAA teams have competitive league games every game.
Riiiiiight
3/4 of yesterday's losers are in MIAA B and C divisions.
It's called the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Maybe the top teams that have on age College Freshman and kids from other states leave the MIAA and form their own National league. Leave the MIAA A for on age kids that are actually from The areas where their schools are located in Maryland. St Frances was forced out of the MIAA because they used big money to form their dynasty teams with kids that are not from Baltimore and a lot older than normal High School seniors....
1. The lower tier MIAA and WCAC teams also have players from other states
2. There are 19 year old seniors all over public and private school rosters
3. "a lot older" than normal seniors? There's a handful (10? 15?) of 20 year old seniors across the thousands of lax players in MD and DC. A check of public school football rosters would show the same.
4. The "recruiting from out of area" argument is a public school faux argument. As if public school lax parents don't buy homes in specific school districts in specific counties with specific legacy lax programs. Or even move in 8th-10th grade for better "placement." Buying a $900K house in the "right" school district is no more or less of a flex than paying MIAA or WCAC tuition. Stop pretending that public school is by default some kind of meritocracy.
Lol keep telling yourself that 19 year old seniors are anywhere near as prevalent at public schools as in the privates. Not every good MIAA player is a holdback, and not every holdback is pushing 20 when they get to college, but the facts don't lie; when IL publishes birthdates with their five stars, the private school kids are almost always older than their public school counterparts; Sunderland (#4 in the '22 class) is 10 months older than Joey Terenzi (#3), and Millon (#1 '23 attack) is 11 months older than Duffy (#2 attack).
If you comb over a public school roster, you may get a few borderline holdbacks where the kids were born over the summer. But nothing like the MIAA and NEW-1 where you have kids born in the winter and spring of the grade above.
As for point #4, what world are you living in where the public schools have rosters filled with kids moving to town in 8-10th grade? Something like that might happen once or twice in a decade at a top tier public school, whereas their youth programs are losing at least twice that many good players every single year to private schools in their region.
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