Realignment
A couple of quick thoughts on realignment.
First off, at the 1A and 2A levels, I like the fact that the UIL has split both classes into two separate divisions at the season's outset.
This has been a long time coming, and it should eventually be used from 3A-5A.
There's some extra travel involved, but the new system will pump life into a multitude of programs which have been buried at the bottom of the enrollment game for decades.
Teams like Baird, Ranger, Cross Plains, Hawley, and many others, too numerous to mention, have just been given a level playing field.
Other schools, who have enjoyed playing the role of "bully on the block," will now be playing teams with a similar enrollment.
This is a terrific idea, which will bring a dash of parity in areas where it is desparately needed.
My second thought is on travel.
Though I like the new system and accept that increased mileage is a natural byproduct, I think it is borderline criminal that San Angelo Central is being shipped to the Panhandle again.
A 610-mile round trip for a district game is insane, and you can't tell me that that there isn't some way of shipping SA Central to its old digs in the little Southwest Conference.
Ridiculous.
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