If this was actually approved what would be private schools incentive to even participate under the KSHSAA? I really do not know what it would be. Why subject the private schools to rules of an organization that would be forcing you to compete in a diluted competitive situation? It would seem to me there would be no reason for connection to the KSHSAA. It would be much like the grade school and middle school situation that we currently have in sports. For the Catholic private schools we have CYO competition that is completely separate from the public middle school competitions. I would think that is the same situation that would evolve.

I don't see the purpose of it in Kansas. It is too small of a state and the private schools have really not been that dominant in most sports. Aquinas has been pretty dominant in soccer for both boys and girls but really no more than SM Northwest has been in cross country or SM East in swimming or Hutchinson and Blue Valley in football. Bishop Carroll has been a dominant wrestling team but no more than Goddard.

Will Cokeley, one thing that you might like in such a new system would be if the private schools dropped out of the KSHSAA then we would no longer be subject to KSHSAA's restrictions.