Agreed 100%.
Of course if that happened it would result in probably at least 2-3 CCL school closures. And I know those conversations are happening at a couple of smaller CCL schools right now.
Glenbard North has caught lightening in a bottle 4 times, including making the state final with 6-3 (29th seed) and 5-4 (28th seed) regular season records.
Historically they are a 5-4 team, and 6-3 over the last 20 years.
I have said this before, but if the split were to occur, privates would only get 1 class. 10% of the schools are not going to get 25-33% of the playoffs. The smaller privates will just have to work harder to compete in the single private class.
Adding a second private class would just be...
There has been talk about creating club teams and bypassing high school sports period. PE knows they can undercut the cost of private schools, negotiate NIL, sell broadcast rights, and make money.
So it appears this is a company that puts together these games instead of the schools doing it themselves. Makes sense for the out of state team if they want to do something like this but don't want to do the heavy lifting on planning it. Unknown if a Time Share presentation is part of the...
Regardless of the number of classes, privates only get 1 class. 10% of the high schools in the state are not getting 25-33% of the playoffs.
The smaller privates will just have to work harder to compete in the single private class.
Maxpreps shows 72% of ESL plays were run plays. If the first 10 plays were passing, then Maxpreps says 90% of the remainder of the game were run plays for ESL.