Originally Posted by Anonymous
Comical the resentment and bitterness towards out of state players. It has been happening for decades in this sport and even longer in other sports. Why is it so bad if a kid from the Midwest or South has the means to attend a great academic school and is good enough to play a sport there? To compete at a sport they love against the best the sport has to offer. MIAA teams carry 30-40 players on a team. If your kid is not making the team or playing I doubt it has to due with a handful out of state players on each team. Baltimore schools some more than others have been doing this for a long time along with the holdbacks. Severn, St. Mary's and Spalding are catching up with the holdbacks not so much with the out of state players. Nonetheless, it is a trend across the board. LOSING certainly changes the narrative for those parents that can't handle that their kid is sitting on the bench and not playing. Send your kid to the boarding school if you think it's such an affair advantage. If a player or coach is not playing or losing it usually has to do with being out WORKED!! Most 8th grade AA-Elite players can get into any High School they want and choose where to go. Doesn't matter the geographic.They're all Private Schools! To pick a school and then complain the blues when kid gets cut, not playing, not being developed or just losing is
comical.
CHC is the only(MIAA) team in the last 20 years to have run like this. The above thread shows who has won year after year. Players are flocking to that program from all over the state and country. WINNING does that.
Which is why it is great for the entire league.It elevates the entire league. Playing CHC and beating them means so much more.It means the work put in has matched or exceeded CHC work. Wether it is getting more holdbacks, out of state players , best club players or just out Coaching them or beating them on the field with the personnel on the team. Either way soreness and bitterness are traits of losing.

Like other MIAA schools, Calvert Hall decided not to play St. Frances in football because of the disadvantage in size and skill and the way that St. Frances was recruiting football players was not in the spirit of MIAA competition.