It’s a fair and reasonable point that the expense of traveling so far to compete doesn’t grow the game, especially when that displaces local kids. But growing in Maryland isn’t the challenge of course, it’s growing it in the places from which the kids travel. They go home, get to talk up doing well in a hotbed, proselytize to good athlete friends to say hey this is an option for you, etc. That this obviously aligns with a program’s profit motive doesn’t make it not true (pun intended), it makes more likely to stick (pun also intended). | 
