stayfocused posted:...Personally I think they should separate out the private schools who can recruit and the academies (IMG) from the public school rankings.
I think this is a common thought process and one that I have had on the surface in the past as well. The problem is, for so many areas, this would create a significant travel logistics issue as there are not an abundance of similarly competitive privates. So the privates would have to travel a great deal more and the pool of opponents for the publics gets further shrunk as well. I think the key is to try to keep them properly slotted from a competitive standpoint and ignore enrollment numbers. our particular area has done a fairly decent job with this in recent years with frequent realignment by sport.