This was Saturday morning, barely 10 minutes after the state championship soccer game at Willow Brook Park, the one with the regrettable result:

School of choice (Holy Cross) beats public school (Old Lyme) to win the Class S girls' championship.

A member of the CIAC soccer committee was on the field looking up some information for me on his phone. We were both looking at his phone when I saw a text he received: "Can't wait till they all start complaining about schools of choice again!"

And there it was. The process being mocked.

See this, all you coaches, athletic directors, principals and superintendents of Class S schools? You are being mocked. Feel OK about it? Or are you finally going to start doing your jobs and make your voices heard to CIAC officials?

Because I've got to say that I'm feeling a little lonely here. Seems that yours truly and his friend Jeff Jacobs at Hearst Connecticut Media are screaming about inequity louder and more frequently than school officials whose jobs are in part about ensuring equity for the children they serve.

I've written about schools of choice and their inherent competitive advantages for a while now. The CIAC defines schools of choice as those that enroll "more than 25 gender-specific students from out of district," otherwise known for the sake of argument as Catholic, magnet and charter schools.

Here is what I believe: Enrollment numbers alone should not determine state tournament divisions. It's the mechanism behind the way enrollments are formed, not the numbers themselves. A public high school and school of choice might have 300 boys apiece. But if the public high school's pool of potential players comes from one town and the school of choice draws from multiple towns, the school of choice has a competitive advantage.

This is most pronounced in Class S, where the ability of choice schools to draw from multiple towns all but drowns small public high schools, whose talent pools are already limited enough and confined to town borders.

Old Lyme had won four straight girls' soccer state championships before Saturday. Some choice school toadies think that's all the proof necessary to suggest small public schools can compete. Except that it's hardly the point, totally dwarfed by a more prevailing question: Why should they have to compete against schools playing by different rules?

This is about equity. A fair baseline. What is fair about little Old Lyme playing for the same trophy as Holy Cross, whose website trumpets the following:

"Holy Cross continues to serve families from more than 30 cities and towns. A large percentage of our students live in Greater Waterbury area, but some travel as far as Torrington, Newtown and Southington."

Sorry, folks. One school gets its kids from Mile Creek Road and Haywagon Drive. The other gets its kids from "Greater Waterbury, Torrington, Newtown and Southington."

That's playing by the same rules?

And yet here I am screaming about it more than the people most affected. Hmmm.

The CIAC allows this inequity mostly because the only criticism ever comes from two whack jobs in the media. Again: If administrators, coaches, other officials, parents and kids truly want equity, they need to start screaming. If they don't, nothing's going to change.

Because it doesn't have to. Choice school folks get to spew their gospel through false narratives. Example: I had a Twitter exchange for as long as I could stand it Saturday with East Catholic baseball coach Martin Fiori. He believes all schools in Connecticut are schools of choice. It's a familiar yarn.

Mr. Fiori wrote, essentially, that because a kid from Old Lyme can pay tuition and attend Waterford, that Waterford is a school of choice, too. The same "rule" applies everywhere. You can pay and attend any school you want. So why single out East Catholic, for example, as a "school of choice?"

I've heard dumber arguments in my life. I just can't think of any at the moment. I mean, the idea that a family in Old Lyme would pay taxes to the town to sustain public education and then willfully pay tuition to another town for more public education is absurd. But then, they already know that. This "we're all schools of choice" drivel makes for a good sound bite and an argument of convenience aimed at the segment of society who doesn't want to spend much time in thought. Like ever.

Schools of choice have their purpose. I don't believe they should occupy their own division. But I believe they do not belong competing in Class S in any sport under any circumstances.

And I'm not sure why this isn't patently obvious not merely to CIAC officials, but to administrators from Class S schools who are irresponsibly quiet.

You need to make your voices heard, folks. They are mocking you and your kids. They can dismiss me as a loon. But if enough of you speak up, circumstances will change.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro