I noticed in our area that a couple of conference announced today that they are realigning. Some of these conferences have been active since 1918. Members are leaving and joining and are essentially realigning based upon the 4 class system. That brings some new discussion to the board. I know that many of the Chicago schools won't have to worry about this since your HS are all around 2,000+. However it is a big deal with the middle and southern portions of the state.
Take us for instance. Our school pop is 1,300. (School IHSA enrollment says 1,332 but that is inaccurate as we lost many students from last year.) We play a good mix in our schedule. Now, with the change, we are going to have to think about who we play and what the consequences of that are at seed meeting time. NO ONE CARES WHO YOU PLAY AND ONLY FOCUS ON RECORD! In saying that, we'd need to think about scheduling more 3A schools since that is the class we'll be in. However, heres a problem, they won't schedule us. We've lost at least 5 or 6 of these schools off of our schedule in the last few years. We've replaced them with schools of 2,000+. Naturally we'd like to keep these bigger schools. I think several schools are going to have to re-evaluate their conferences and schedules with the change to 4 classes. THOUGHTS?
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