This is a very complicated issue…I would like to point out the original post of this thread was a little misleading. I am not sure how it was presented to D4 at your meeting, but the Kids Executive Board does not have a unified position on this issue. If I had to guess, I would say that the opinions of those on the board vary on this issue at about a 50/50 ratio at best. If a vote would have been taken by the board (which it wasn't) I doubt there would have been enough support for this change to pass. Here are a few of the problems that I see with it;

1- Jr. High season conflicts

2- Some clubs have made a decision not to start their season until after football and the year-end Holiday’s…this would have a negative impact on those clubs.

3- Our Folkstyle State Tournament is the one time a year when everyone comes together to participate…ending the season and/or splitting up the Folkstyle State tournament would have a negative impact on the since of family we currantly share within USAWA-KS.

4- As our organization is now structured, the USAWA-KS tournament serves as the largest revenue producing part of our budget. Much of this revenue comes in the form of grants that pay it out because of the size of our group. If we split the season our group numbers will be smaller and this revenue stream will go away.

5- What we have now works, why not work on the edges to improve it instead of scrapping it and going to something else?

I am one board member that would need to have a lot more data before ever voting to make this drastic of a change!

Mark