Don’t make NAHL schedule? How many kids that played at THA last year are playing in the NAHL? You would think with having a daughter with a D1 full ride you would be able to see how low quality the hockey played at THA is. Again why go to MN and not play a team from MN? Can’t THA compete with even a bad MN team?
I have no problem with the legitimate questioning of THA hyperbole, but at least we should straighten out a few things. Their prep team is playing in the NAPHL. THA did play in an NAPHL tournament in the Prep School division, which is a new thing for the NAPHL this season. They are not going to play against AAA caliber teams unless they were to move to a higher division. Playing in a tournament no matter where it is, is not the same as going to a state and setting up scrimmages. You play who you draw, and there are only a few teams from Minny that play in the NAPHL.
With that said, any program has to start somewhere, and while the Prep division is new and undoubtably weaker than the AAA/AA divisions, THA did well at least in the tournament. In the next few years we will see whether players move onto NAHL teams from THA, but there is no debating that you can move from the NAHL to College hockey (Div1 & Div3).
Overall, I would have to say that THA has come a long way in a short amount of time, and if anything, are farther along at this point than I would have expected them to be. From an educational standpoint, I don't see much difference between what they are doing, and the gazillion people these days who home school their kids. THA is billed as a hockey academy, not a Prep school that happens to have hockey, so it's not like they are projecting themselves to be something that they aren't.