For three straight seasons, the MIAA Division 1 championship game has featured the same foes and the same result: St. John’s Prep taking down fellow Catholic Conference rival Boston College High School.
Though the title games generated loads of interest and showed off high-level play, the pattern has many followers across Massachusetts, particularly the state’s public schools, frustrated.
The Catholic Conference is composed of six all-boys private schools, and has asserted dominance across the MIAA the last decade, winning four of the last five and five of the last 10 Division 1 titles.
And, while these programs are as well-coached, as disciplined and as hard-working as others across the state, coaches of the public school programs cannot help but notice the vast disparity in resources, funding and talent acquisition between the private institutions and themselves.
