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Way to earlier MIAA A ranking

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Way to earlier MIAA A ranking

BL
CH
McDonough
Spalding
Loyola
Severn
MSJ
JC
STM
Gilman

Only two teams in MIAA that are BOARDING KIDS.....MCD and BL

This comment smells of a groot sized SIP or her troll husband angry that their kids peak at fresh/soph

I just went to Inside lacrosse and there are 7 schools listed - no Mount St Marys. Washington, Salisbury, Stevenson, Vassar, Limestone, Canisus, Robert Morris, Wagner, Hobart, High Point or Penn

This is why you don't believe the haters on the internet. The kid from Upenn was on every all star team in the state.

I can confirm with college rosters that JC currently has kids at:

UPenn
MSM x2
UMBC
Canisius
Hobart
Wagner
Washington x2
Lynchburg
Salisbury

And there are probably more with the covid eligibility years.

I know some of their current kids are headed to:

Monmouth
Quinnipiac
UMBC
VMI
McDaniel
Susquehanna

Kid at Penn took 1 shot last year so his talent at JC did translate. Again JC is just not a legitimate pipeline. Next.

Kid at Penn took 1 shot last year so his talent at JC did translate. Again JC is just not a legitimate pipeline. Next.

Yup. Didn't play much for U Penn as a freshman in a covid year. Kid obviously [Censored].

Can't wait till your kid commits to Essex in May of his senior year.

😂

Kid at Penn took 1 shot last year so his talent at JC did translate. Again JC is just not a legitimate pipeline. Next.

All this JC talk is great. Can JC get its act together and keep most of the above average talent in Harford county? If they do, they can become respectable, and then the top talent will stay. They link up with a club (not much to choose from) and could turn it all around. The drive time will only be getting longer and longer into Baltimore county.

JC NEVER will compete in the A conference even if every kid from Harford county went there. They should drop to B conference like Gilman.

Now let’s talk about BL and how all heck will break out when their top ranked player realizes he’s no good and the coaches get their act together and bench him once and for all. He kills the team every time he touches the ball. Takes the wind completely out of everything.

JC NEVER will compete in the A conference even if every kid from Harford county went there. They should drop to B conference like Gilman.

Now let’s talk about BL and how all heck will break out when their top ranked player realizes he’s no good and the coaches get their act together and bench him once and for all. He kills the team every time he touches the ball. Takes the wind completely out of everything.

All this JC talk is great. Can JC get its act together and keep most of the above average talent in Harford county? If they do, they can become respectable, and then the top talent will stay. They link up with a club (not much to choose from) and could turn it all around. The drive time will only be getting longer and longer into Baltimore county.

We love the JC talk down here in AA Co.

They are doing a good job recruiting. All the Baltimore programs are getting squeezed for kids. It's not a coincidence that so many of them are resorting to out of state kids now that the good kids are staying at JC

We love the JC talk down here in AA Co.

They are doing a good job recruiting. All the Baltimore programs are getting squeezed for kids. It's not a coincidence that so many of them are resorting to out of state kids now that the good kids are staying at JC

JC folks like to simultaneously argue that the Harford County kids don't have the skills to make an impact at the "Big Schools" .... I think the usual quote is "they get lost on the bench." As if the boys have no role in that outcome whatsoever, they're just not that good and it's "decided" somehow?

AND (again, simultaneously....)

Keeping those same kids local at JC is going to transform those non-impact players into kids who can beat the "Big Schools." Logically, both of those things can't be true, at least most of the time.

To that point, I know the BOTC rallying cry is "But Pat Spencer" in terms of coaching/zero-to-hero/player development and senior year impact (and it's an OK example and a GREAT story), but also remember that Pat Spencer held back a year at St Marys (pre-K or K) and held back another year at BL (8th) so he was not a spring chicken in his senior year. Dude was seriously ready.

At the heart of the Pat Spencer argument is that kids develop by getting on the field and playing in games.

Every kid (no matter their level) had a better chance of getting on the field and contributing earlier, and therefore developing, at a program that has 80 kids rather than 130.

It just depends on your tolerance for winning in the conference.

Do you want to ride the pine for a "winner" or contribute to a team that's "building?"

I find much of this kind of funny, seeing as even the bottom half of the A league are still a top 15 teams in the state.

MIAA is overrated . Yes they have some really good teams as do other HS conferences like DC/NVA/Philly, NJ, LI, NY . Take the bottom half of MIAA and it would lose to most LI top 1/2/3/4th teams in better conferences.

Loyola has the best 26 class

MIAA is overrated . Yes they have some really good teams as do other HS conferences like DC/NVA/Philly, NJ, LI, NY . Take the bottom half of MIAA and it would lose to most LI top 1/2/3/4th teams in better conferences.

MIAA is overrated . Yes they have some really good teams as do other HS conferences like DC/NVA/Philly, NJ, LI, NY . Take the bottom half of MIAA and it would lose to most LI top 1/2/3/4th teams in better conferences.

What part of "league" don't you understand. Long Island has 175? 190? high schools and some play each other and most don't. Sure there are some teams that could beat the paint off of any MIAA team. There's a reason they don't get assembled in a league together........nobody outside the MIAA wants to take that heat, 2x per week for 6 weeks.

Nova: 1 team in the national top 50, zero in the top 25. So, I don't see a "better than the MIAA" league happening. Stop trying to make "elite nova lax" happen. It's not going to happen. Yeah I know, "Oh but so many elite Nova kids go to MD and DC schools." Cool. Why don't they go to VA schools?

In fact let's expand to all of VA...name a VHSL team that would be favored to beat anybody in MIAA-A except for Severn School. The 5x state champions at 5A (Robinson) sends like 1 kid to D1 every year. I am not sure they could beat John Carroll or Severn.

IAC: Top 2-3 teams are BETTER, most days, than the best MIAA teams. Conference as a whole? No. Nobody (in their right mind) claims it to be.

IAL (Philly): Malvern and Haverford are great programs. But Germantown and William Penn Charter? No. Again, Malvern and Hav play each other, max 3x per season (including being the annual odds-on favorite for the championship game before the season's first faceoff).

MAPL (PA-NJ): Seems like 2 teams per year crack the top 50. Better conference than the MIAA? No - like the MIAA goons, you'd be accused of factoring in the "legacy" of past greatness across these schools. In its best years, though, it's actually a passing argument that they might be as good or slightly better than the MIAA. And it's worth noting that in other sports (maybe like the IAC), the MAPL is better than the MIAA, and academics are top notch as well.

Ratings are put together by human beings so of course there is some error, and maybe even bias. But the reality is that *every* MIAA-A team could beat all but the best 2-3 teams in any other league in the country. And the guys putting together the rankings, they know that.

Hopefully you have your therapy dog next to while typing this, You sound triggered and upset. Dont want you in hospital over this.

The rating are done by MD people who only see MD teams most of time. Your reading comprehension has let you down, reread what I wrote . I stand by both sentences . MIAA is overrated, now please get your therapy dog out before answering.

That is the most [Censored] statement. If you take the bottom half of any conference in any sport and pit them against the top 4 teams in any other conference, they probably lose. Now, isn't your mother calling you to come eat your linguini and clam sauce?

Hopefully you have your therapy dog next to while typing this, You sound triggered and upset. Dont want you in hospital over this.

The rating are done by MD people who only see MD teams most of time. Your reading comprehension has let you down, reread what I wrote . I stand by both sentences . MIAA is overrated, now please get your therapy dog out before answering.

Loyola has the best 26 class

MIAA is overrated . Yes they have some really good teams as do other HS conferences like DC/NVA/Philly, NJ, LI, NY . Take the bottom half of MIAA and it would lose to most LI top 1/2/3/4th teams in better conferences.

What part of "league" don't you understand. Long Island has 175? 190? high schools and some play each other and most don't. Sure there are some teams that could beat the paint off of any MIAA team. There's a reason they don't get assembled in a league together........nobody outside the MIAA wants to take that heat, 2x per week for 6 weeks.

Nova: 1 team in the national top 50, zero in the top 25. So, I don't see a "better than the MIAA" league happening. Stop trying to make "elite nova lax" happen. It's not going to happen. Yeah I know, "Oh but so many elite Nova kids go to MD and DC schools." Cool. Why don't they go to VA schools?

In fact let's expand to all of VA...name a VHSL team that would be favored to beat anybody in MIAA-A except for Severn School. The 5x state champions at 5A (Robinson) sends like 1 kid to D1 every year. I am not sure they could beat John Carroll or Severn.

IAC: Top 2-3 teams are BETTER, most days, than the best MIAA teams. Conference as a whole? No. Nobody (in their right mind) claims it to be.

IAL (Philly): Malvern and Haverford are great programs. But Germantown and William Penn Charter? No. Again, Malvern and Hav play each other, max 3x per season (including being the annual odds-on favorite for the championship game before the season's first faceoff).

MAPL (PA-NJ): Seems like 2 teams per year crack the top 50. Better conference than the MIAA? No - like the MIAA goons, you'd be accused of factoring in the "legacy" of past greatness across these schools. In its best years, though, it's actually a passing argument that they might be as good or slightly better than the MIAA. And it's worth noting that in other sports (maybe like the IAC), the MAPL is better than the MIAA, and academics are top notch as well.

Ratings are put together by human beings so of course there is some error, and maybe even bias. But the reality is that *every* MIAA-A team could beat all but the best 2-3 teams in any other league in the country. And the guys putting together the rankings, they know that.

Hopefully you have your therapy dog next to while typing this, You sound triggered and upset. Dont want you in hospital over this.

The rating are done by MD people who only see MD teams most of time. Your reading comprehension has let you down, reread what I wrote . I stand by both sentences . MIAA is overrated, now please get your therapy dog out before answering.

That's a weird way to say, "Oh, I guess I had a bad take." Here's a better take, you don't need a therapy dog when the facts pretty smoothly demonstrate your opinion. By all means, list a stronger HS lax conference, since we're here and you have our attention, and it seemed so very important for you to bounce into a MD HS forum to tell us that the MIAA is overrated.

So which conference, top to bottom, is superior to the MIAA on a semi-regular basis?