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There are a ton of good seniors this year across the league. At all the schools from top to bottom.

How does it show?

Talent (maybe) spread out and watered down. You MIAA fans should start tracking DC teams. Tremendous talent also spread out, yet with dominating team (SJC) and teams that are also very good. Committed players to top tier colleges better too.

You are clueless on the 2022 class.

DC, Northern Virginia, and MoCo and PgCo always have to fight for relevance. What aggravates that region the most is we up north of you simply dont care and generally overlook your existence. Not because you dont matter, its because we simply dont care. DC might as well be another country. MIAA is passionate about the MIAA because it has tradition. Several generations of tradition. If you can, build your own traditions and stop worrying about what we do. You have good coaches, teams, and players. Its just a lousy, whiny, transient place - and that is coming from Baltimore!!!

2019s were a B class, 2020 were an A class, 2021 a C, and 2022 are an A, 2023 are a B.

There are a handful of exceptional defenders at 2022 and 2 of the beat attackman in years are in the same class. There are not any players in the next year or 3 that will touch the talent at 22.

It will be great to watch 2022 #6 Larkin (DEF @ LB) vs 2023 #1 Millon (McD) this season. Both play aggressively, to a fault. Larkin might be more intimidated if he wasn't 6'5" 230#. Millon might be more intimidated if he was less of a ball hog. Bank on an outstanding matchup there.

How did the teams look in the Howard, Urbana, & Broadneck scrimmages?

This is America and Americans don’t care about history. It’s all about the here and now. That’s all that matters. At end of the season, DC will have more teams than Baltimore in the top twenty in the country.

Now that’s funny but of course understandable coming from a probable 2022 dad. 2022 class is definitely the weakest in a long time. And I wouldn’t complain about it if I was you because if it wasn’t, most of your boys probably wouldn’t be going to some of the schools their going to. I will agree with you that the 2023 class isn’t strong either. 2024 class on the other hand looks solid from my limited viewing of them overall.

It will be a great regular season matchup.
Because in the playoffs, both teams choke.
McD often shows up small in big games. And Loyola has been a playoff disappointment under this coach.

Accurate. Loyola choked in last year's playoff game vs BL because the BL coaches made a few halftime adjustments, and Loyola did not pick up on them....at all. I think it was Loyola 6-2 at halftime and the final score was 10-7 BL.

Wow! Lacrosse aside, hard to argue with such an enlightened comment.

Why no forum on here to talk college lacrosse?

Not sure if this really matters in the big picture... Each year is a little different, so that may be true but again who cares. In the end the MDV area is so much bigger in population size, that the area really should be better-if they are not the real question is why not??

Several colleges have their own forum. Check out Rivals

LaxFan has taken over laxpower forums also.

Not much left to discuss until the league starts. Everyone is out of the gate and on their way. Still some great early season match ups with Culver, Hill and Lawrenceville in town. Then onto the 12 games that matter most. March 31 is almost here. It is really wide open this year with no clear front runner.

STM is the clear front runner.

Who did they play so far?

Looks it up. Not hard to find. You need to be spoon fed?

DC metro area population 6,324,629
Baltimore metro area population 2,325,00

This should end any debate. By the numbers DC area should dominate. It is amazing the Baltimore area schools have been able to do as well as they have in previous years vs the DC area schools.

Looks it up. Not hard to find. You need to be spoon fed?

Any MIAA history buffs on here that can recall a game against CH that the other team beat them like Friday? They have played some highly ranked teams through the years but don’t remember anyone beating them by that margin.

Not 8 goals, but both McDonogh and Spalding beat them by 6 goals last year.

STM will blow it midway- end of season.They will get out coached like every year when games really matter. If they lose to any AA county team this year it will be a complete failure of a season.

CH is shockingly inexperienced in the midfield - SJC has proven experience all over the field especially at midfield.

SJC is not going to lose this entire season. They are head and shoulders above everyone else in the WCAC, IAC, MIAA. It's not even close. Now next year will be very different but this year, I don't even think they'll lose to a PG school.

Saw SJC at Gilman play day and they subbed almost the entire team at halftime for both games they played. This is how you develop ALL your players and keep a tight locker room. MIaa coaches could learn something from this. Miaa does a horrible job developing players.It shows when a 40-50 man roster only plays 15 players in scrimmages and blow out games.

They'll lose. Book it.

Go to Severn.... Does the most with less and develops players!!!!!

Yeah "by the numbers" is important, but that's the wrong number.

The NYC-Long Island-West Chester area has roughly 20 million people and they consistently crank out *checks notes* about 3-4 superior teams, total. So maybe you are looking at the wrong number.

The number you're looking for is: What proportion of kids play? In Baltimore, a roughly 8 mile drive on 6 total (connected) streets will take you past McDonough, Beth Tfiloh, St. Pauls, Boys Latin, Gilman, Friends, Loyola and Calvert Hall. And take literally one street back over across town from Calvert Hall to St. Pauls.

The Towson-Baltimore-Howard County-Annapolis area at large has very high levels of youth participation, and has for 20 years. Almost every football and soccer player plays lax at least at the rec-club level. About 1/3 of baseball players all the way through middle school, also play club lax. On average, are these athletes better than the DC area? I'm sure they're not. But the funnel is huge, and I would definitely argue there are as many middle school club lax players (ie potential HS starters) from the smaller Baltimore-Annapolis-HoCo bubble, as there are from DC, PGCO, MOCO, Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudon.

Bottom feeders should go back to B conference

Blakefield and now Gilman being handled by IMG. Embarrassing

MIAA isn’t close to being what it used to be. Top to bottom best league in the country is nonsense. BL even had issues against Florida schools.

Not a Severn fan but why should they go back to the B conference? Because they finish in the middle of the pack every year and are unlikely to ever win a championship? That is the problem with most of the posters on this board. You think only undefeated teams and championship contenders should be worthy of playing in games in the A conference. Good luck with your three team conference.
Good for Severn... and MSJ, JC, STP, STM, Gilman (these days), Spalding (minus 21-22), and others for competing and developing at the highest level.

If you are talking 20 years ago you are correct. I grew up in Towson, and now live in Bethesda. I have seen the change, in large part to people that grew up playing lacrosse in the Baltimore area that have moved down here due to the plethora of job opportunities. The numbers participating in lacrosse in the Olney, Rockvile, Bethesda, Chevy Chase ,Potomac areas right now are enormous. The same goes for Fairfax and Loudon counties in Va, particularly in Alexandria, McClean, and Vienna.

Your assumptions on how many kids play multiple sports seems grossly exaggerated as I think about all of the kids in my own children's network of friends. The football comment especially seems off as less and less kids play that sport. I also have never witnessed 1/3 of baseball players playing lax all the way through middle school. Now back to lax... DC Metro has way more kids and that usually leads to more competition, which leads to better overall play-except in UA tourney in recent years... I have witnessed this for years in basketball. It just played out again this past weekend @ the Alhambra tourney. More DC area schools were invited and two of those schools played in the championship game again. One thing I know about lax on the island is the public schools have the highest % of kids playing vs. private schools and they are on age.

Are you for real? CH playing any kids that aren’t on a crazy good club team? Or are they playing a slew of freshmen? Come on, really?! With the size roster they have, don’t tell us they’re inexperienced. Please, they’re just bad. No excuses.