I pulled my 29 off of True because of all the HOCO Fly-ins last spring.
100% lie!
Easy there Coach. Are you saying there were no out of town players ? LOL
Define out of HOCO town Spanky. Annapolis? Frederick? Los Angeles? Leesburg? Waldorf? Wilmington? Exactly how far from the field is out of bounds.
Air dropping into this conversation....for middle school ball, with zero college coaches watching, a team should be a team. Fly-ins/drop-ins for tournaments happen at literally every level of the game, but for a defined season/league, the roster should practice together. Most coaches would agree that's a key definition of a "middle school team." Practicing together at least weekly. That is a realistic standard for a "season."
Fly-in parents on BOTC will tell you that, yes absolutely they do a 4 hour round trip to practice 3x per week in the spring, plus a 5 hour round trip on game day for 7-8 weeks. That's either not true, or really sad. Kid will spend 120+ hours in the car in 8 weeks for 8 hours of max game time.
