Daniel and others, do not get caught up in the split state tournament discussion. It is a ruse! It is designed to take your eye off the fact that the main goal is to shorten the season. Now, we can argue what the true reason for shortening the season might be, if I understand smokey's post correctly, the new reason is to "increase participation numbers". So, that is four reasons including the ones I mentioned earlier, that exist for shortening the season. My question is this, if the reason for shortening the season is now "to increase participation", shouldn't we first determine that the cause of decreasing numbers is due to the length of the season???