CHC, MCD and BL have taken the recruiting from out of state or Canada to a new level never seen before in the MIAA. Big difference between recruiting from various parts of Maryland/PA to recutting from GA, TX or Canada etc… I just don’t see the other MIAA schools following their lead in the immediate future. It would.appear Gilman, St Paul’s and Loyola have the room and $ to board athletes but those schools appear to have other priorities.
Gilman has a player or 2 that previously lived in TX, but I think their families moved to the area.
MIAA should impose a residency requirement for the family. Other options are to waive the Varsity transfer rule. Another is to require the school to play a national schedule, since that would appear to be the type program they are operating.
1) a residency requirement for the family is interesting, but where - in MD? There are MIAA athletes that live with their families in DC, PA & VA.
2) The varsity transfer rule should be enforced for kids transfering in from both member and non-member schools, not scrapped.
3) The MIAA is never telling a member school like BL or McD that they can't play in the league - that's ridiculous. It happened in football because no one else in the league wanted to join the arms race. In lax, most of the A conference has been in some sort of arms race for decades and decades. The other schools will adapt and find a way to compete.
