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eagles--I think many share that sentiment. However, what works in metropolitan areas may not be fair to rural areas. Then you have cities or towns in the 40,000-70,000 range that may be experiencing declining demographics that may or may not have a strong private school in their region. Is the need ...

gahs--I think eagles was making the same points. Again. I think these socio-economic issues are as much a part of the problem as any athletic issue that may be considered.

Eagles--your points are well made. It is a fact that there are definite differences in the make-ups of the schools. It is these very differences, I believe, that are the core of the problem. A public school equal in size is at a disadvantage due to the lack of parental involvement in supporting the...

Perhaps you should think more in terms of the second sentence for the true powers. However, there are privates who have success to which I would say that the dedication of coaches, parents and athletes is superior to the publics in the same area.

I understand the deny enrollment position. In addition, I understand that there is more parental involvement due to their financial investment. Because of this, the larger privates have advantages that publics can never achieve. At the lower divisions, I think there is some justification to the &quo...

D4,5 & 6 will be affected more by the 4 year suggestion than others. There are many smaller schools who play in competitive leagues, in all sports, with larger schools who actually step down to play in the tournament. My point is that you can take each of these suggestions and point to schools w...

inappropriate activities go on all over the state. Utica's softball program was sanctioned for coaching participation during off-season workouts. Also, there have been sanctions against girls basketball teams and Upper Arlington was turned in a few years back for the same thing as the Utica softball...

That seems to be reasonable

ecce--do those numerous titles need to have been in this century or 20 years ago?

If you can't come up with something that is fair to all, why change? You are just moving the disparity to another location. You haven't dealt with the problem, you just want to hang it on someone else.