When playing an out of conference opponent it’s only a game if you’re confident in your team. Otherwise, it’s a scrimmage. And your best players weren’t 100%.
Or you've lost players to injury or have a lot of unknowns and are experimenting with line ups. Unless you're looking for the national championship, if you don't have a set line up, you're experimenting. Kind of like pre-season football. Ratings don't mean anything, its all about the Conference championship.
The new MIAA excuse. Just say the league isn’t what it used to be and move on. lost mentality.
Used to be the league would pride itself on being the best in the country. Now it’s we only care about the league play. The shift is simple. They aren’t the best in the country. Haven’t been for many years.
May not have the top team in the nation year in and year out, but is undoubtedly the top league every single year. There's simply no disputing that.
Yeah, it doesn't survive basic logic. There are certainly TEAMS in CT, NY, MA who choose to play tougher overall schedules than the MIAA-A slate. But the bulk of their schedules (like 2/3 of games) are out-of-conference.
The Leagues they play in (NY Catholic AAA and NY Section 7 Public for example) are, maybe, reminiscent of MIAA-C with 1-3 MIAA-A (or better) teams thrown in at the top of the heap per conference.
