"while the Aeros have been a Top 5 team each of the past 5 years in the standings, they have not dominated the league points-wise to the same degree their D1 placement has, related to other perennial top teams"
While you suggested that is due to rolling the lines etc while other teams play the stars only, you an look at it a different way:
The Aeros attract the best overall incoming class of players every year (admittedly due to past success), so as a result they have the deepest set of high quality players at seasons start every year. However it takes more than a set of good players to win whne it counts. Scouts look at the skillset of each player, not whether a team wins. They come and watch the Aeros cause they have the highest number of players with a high skillset, so its worth their while.
As far as scouts coming to practices. That is usually part of the evaluation of particular player they are interested in. We have had scouts at our team practice for the same reason, and we are not part of the elite top 5.
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