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STM loss 4 starter by end of season. Not making excuses but take away any 4 starter from any team they would fad away also.

NAILED IT!!! Both on the football and lacrosse team. Zero accountability for behaviors at CH.

How many did BL lose?

Calvert Hall handles their behavior problems in-house.

It doesnt matter who should of won, who could of won. 1 team won. 10 lost. End of story. The team with the best players doesnt always win. That said, a win is a win and you cant take that away from the winning team. As for playing time, if you are good enough you will play. If you arent you wont. Same in college. No-one cares where you went to school or what conference. If you are better you play. Be big fast strong skilled and you have a shot- but still a long way to go to see the field.

Hardly. Son was a starter who got tired of the same lame players out on field while better players sat on bench. I guess you are one of those daddies .

Sure he was!! We all know who you son is and he’s lucky to see the field.

#truth

STM loss 4 starter by end of season. Not making excuses but take away any 4 starter from any team they would fad away also.


Hardly the case. 4 Starters? STM faded because of poor coaching period!

BL and every other team dealt with injuries and other obstacles but the well coached teams use the depth that every team has to get better as a season goes on.

I saw STM play 3 times in person last year including both CHC games. SM's offense was not balanced last year. In other words, if a team had enough good defenders, they could shut the SM offense down. I don't know their personnel well enough to know whether this was a schematic (only certain folks were allowed or encouraged to go to the cage or shoot) or personnel (secondary players were not good enough and the bench wasn't deep enough) related weakness. On the field coaching can alter bad or unbalanced schemes but can't miraculously make up a lack of talent and/or depth. The latter is a recruiting and development issue and is tougher at smaller schools like STM vs at a CHC.

The strength of the STM team was their poles. Their SSDMs were inconsistent and their goalie was decent. They upset CHC at an in season night game at home and lost to them in the playoffs. What I saw is CHC shut down their O in the second game while the D gave up 6 games in their win vs 8 in their loss. Knowing BL well, they had more depth on their roster (they did a great job of covering for the loss of their #1 cover defender) and did the best job of coaching in the Conference. Part of their competitive advantage was utilizing quality poles at shorty to shut down attackmen who didn't have great one on one games thereby freeing up poles to stop dangerous offensive middies. This League is tough folks. If you don't have offensive depth (6 real threats on the field at all times in settled O), good defenses (especially the second time around and after lots of film study) can shut down a 2-4 person focused offense pretty easily. If any of your 6 defensive personnel is weak, look for OCs to exploit them after studying the film. Coaches often use underclassmen or weaker middies as SSDMs. If an opposing team has six strong offensive players, not having top quality varsity athletes at every defensive position can come back to bite you. Coaching defense means getting 6 top quality athletes on the field, getting them matched up on personnel correctly, teaching them proper team D (defending the 2 man game, working through picks both on and off ball, sliding correcting, communicating, etc.) and scouting the opposition so that any one of the six defenders knows how to cover any particular offensive player.

Personally, I would rather have a stud athlete with ok stickwork at the SSDM position, than a weaker (athletically) underclassman with better stickwork. If you have 6 or 7 very good poles, its better to rotate your 6th and 7th pole through the SSDM position vs trying to shoe horn a less physical/athletic middie into the role.

Lastly, in my opinion, DCs should be mining the football, basketball and soccer rosters for physical kids with great footwork for the SSDM position. Likewise coaching staffs should cull the wrestling roster for future FOGOs.

The results of Loyola speak for themselves daddie. Your son will be lucky if he gets on the scout team this year.

They really do speak loudly.
Loyola had the most talented team, overall, in the league last year.
And they didn't get past the QF round.
One and done.

Are you guys sitting at your desks at your jobs or on the sofa in your sweats while the smoke barrels out your ears? Who is jumping up and down in front of their screens? Anyone yet? The image I have going on is hilarious.

STM coaching is at the Bottom of barrel. They shouldnt feel bad as several other MIAA teams are not much better. Loyola comes to mind last year and StP in last few years. Saving grace of MIAA is talent, not coaching

CH was a mess last year. Winning over Loyola was nothing to write home about. Loyola was me ball players with lackluster coaching .

👆🏻 Son cut and transferred

BL- Top of the League until proven otherwise. Swiss Cheese on paper but still the champs.

Spaulding- Second best and will need to find scoring, goaltending, fo, leadership, and some creativity (and stop fighting defenseless kids)

CHC- Will be everyones circled game per usual. They will be dangerous if healthy. Experienced and senior heavy. FO a ?

McDonogh- Can beat everyone in the league- including themselves- again. Have to manage players and fathers egos. Need scoring.

Loyola- Can they find depth to support a few shining (very bright) stars. The rest of the league is hoping there are no coaching adjustments.

St.Marys- They will be big athletes that can roll a few teams. Can they manage against top D's and O's.

Severn- Dont have anything to say. They are trying to become irrelevant.

Gilman- The sleeper. They will sleep through every game and get rolled.

St. Pauls- New staff same problems. Not enough talent.

St Joe and John Carroll- Better than a bye week.

Weak sauce. Come bold or don't come at all.

Mark it down now:


1) StP has all of it's former coaches on one staff together and the Predators pipeline up and running. Championship.
2) BL is always dangerous and have a great coaching staff. They regularly get more out of less and put their kids in position to succeed. Repeat not out of the question.
3) McD may be he most star-laden team in the league, but even with the best offensive player, they still need offensive help, goaltending and a fogo. The oatmeal of the MIAA. Nothing about this team REALLY scares anyone.
4) SPLD. Speaking of stars, not sure if this one will go supernova before the high level of parental funding and involvement could burn out next year. Questions about the future of the Hawks also cast shadow about the long term.
5) CH is good, but not the machine they were a few years ago. BK has shown that even though they have great depth, he still needs top horses to compete. Perhaps reading too many IL features on themselves.
6) LB still talented, just less than last year. How's that gonna work out?
7) MSJ should improve with another year in the new coach's system. It is a good culture change. Just not sure it's enough to win.
8) JC should improve with another year in the new coach's system. Growing the footprint in Hartford. Just not sure it's enough to win.
9) St M lack of ingenuity and creativity continues to be the anchor in Annapolis.
10) GIL hired one of the most promising young public school coaches in the state. We should know pretty quickly if it was a good call or the greyhounds will be looking again soon.
11) SEV has youth and excitement. Some good pieces. Just not sure it's enough to win.

JC- 0-10
St J- 1-9
Severn- 3-7
Gilman- 3-7
St Pauls- 4-6
St. M 5-5
LB- 6-4
BL- 7-3
Spaulding 7-3
McD 9-1
CHC 10-0

Severn will be vying for a spot in the top 6 and will compete with all teams including SM. SP is out as are Gilman, MSJ and JC. LB lost a lot on offense and in the cage and clearly based on the forum posters have serious culture and coaching issues. CHC, BL and MCD just re-load and will join a senior driven team at Spalding in the semis. Its a toss up as to who wins: it will come down to 1) coaching (who is prepared for anything and everything another team will throw at you the second time around, 2) goal tending: whose hot or not, and 3) face offs: possession is 9/10s of the matter. Last year was the same way. The lowest seeded team won the championship. Its about peaking at the right time especially as there is no home field advantage in the semis.

1-Spaldingers
2-CHC
3-McD
4-BL
5-SM
6-Severn
7-LB
8-StP
9-MSJ
10-Gilman
11-JC

No upsets in the opening rounds. Spaldingers lose to CHC in th Championship.

Talk about kooky. None us think about the images you have. Time for you to get checked out.

Severn has some younger talent for sure. Could push for top 6-7 Depends how their depth works out. Same for JC. They are starting to get kids from top clubs. I like the direction of MSJ under the new coach. Just not sure if that school is an easy sell. There are some good public programs on that side of town.

Lots of local kids at 5 Star over the weekend. Anyone hear of any particularly stood out?

Cottle's newest Top 205.

Here are the kids who made the All Star Team:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXE5jPFrDnF/

Doesn’t matter barley any college coaches watching. Crazy

The coaches were at the NHSLS three weeks ago.

Waste of time

So, you couldn't afford the tuition and airfare?

Or your kid wasn't recommended by his coach?

Coaching was ok .
Half the kids there recommended by their coach. Half the kids were drummed up late when most opted not to go because they would be back in Florida a week later for IMCLA.
Dont know if it was a waste but that depends on what the goal was.

Lots of MIAA representation on that all star team.
Even down in Florida, Maryland Privates separating themselves.

Can’t wait to see how this spring season shakes out. Love to see the preseason 2021 predictions vs the final results.

I think there will be even more movement in the standings this year.

Kids of Maryland coaches making the All-star team run by Maryland coaches should not surprise you.

Out of the 10 teams… one team that was “hand picked” had all but two defense and two middies make the all star team. You can take a guess on who the coach of that team was….

No clue. Who?

Yea do tell? Do tell?

Please tell.

This dude appears to be almost as salty about the all-star team as parents were about the U19 Team USA squad. YOu know, the one that was coached by NM and half of the kids chosen were headed to OSU...

Lemme guess, it has something to do with the Dingers and LS?

Spencer ford

The detest for anything SG is strong among the quarter zip old Baltimore programs

Don't know what's worse - the constant moaning about SG or the constant and unnecessary defense of same. Would attribute this nonsense to it being a slow period for lacrosse and comments thereon, but this guff goes on year-'round. Perhaps SG critics and defenders should look into needlepoint to occupy their time.

Why? Is LD hiring embroiderers?