If you use an insurance company similar to what USA Wrestling uses it would be about $35 per student/athlete or non-student/activity person per year. Catastrophic injury insurance - What does this cover now and up to how much per student athlete/or activity participant - about $1,000,000. Parents could opt out I imagine if they already have good coverage. Unless it were required by a new governing body. KSHSAA could potentially lose the revenue from gate fees and annual fees from the one proposed division. Although they would potentially have 1 more classification. It all boils down to how many fans each school brings to games and what those gate fees collected are and what percentage the KSHSAA keeps.

"cut off nose to spite face"
IMO - that is what the proposers are saying to the Private Schools - you should have your own division we do not want to compete against those schools. But the KSHSAA would like to help set up several tournaments with your volunteers and we will take 70 percent - how does that sound.

Using the most recent numbers available.

Currently, On average with a $4,000,000 budget divided by 300 schools = $13,333.33 on average each school helps the KSHSAA budget.

Some schools bring more fans than others so I just used averages.

So if there were fewer schools and families involved and they made more classifications to raise more money - I am having a tough time figuring out the motives here. The discussion is healthy - but could someone explain to me the benefit of diluting the competition.