1st of all, it is stupid that the OSHAA does not allow teams to voluntarily move up on their own. If for example, a D4 school wants to move up to D3 or D2 for whatever reason, why is the OSHAA stopping them? I cannot even begin to talk about how stupid that is. No team is going to move up if they do not believe they can compete at that level for the 2-year cycle.
Secondly, to my understanding, CB was implemented to prevent a school that had no boundaries in big metropolis areas from competing against small town/rural town schools. Think Hoban vs Ironton. There are real and legitimate reasons for this. In this thread Worm said there should be no CB, just get better. Worm is from traditionally one of the most talent rich areas not just in the state of Ohio but all of the USA. His school in that area, Warren G Hardin, may be down right now, but they are a good coach away from competing again. Him saying work harder because that is what his school needs to do, is myopic thinking. That is like saying Howard should just get better to beat WGH. There may be years where it happens, but most years Howard would be at too much of a disadvantage to even try no matter how hard they worked.
Then you had a Massillon fan say no D4 team should care about competing against Glenville because Anderson and Loveland were able to beat them for titles in the past. Both schools are D2, those schools are of enough size that by building a program they can handle that competition better than a smaller school, so I am not seeing the logic in that statement. Now before anyone accuses me of attacking Glenville, I have great respect for the Glenville program and Ginn/Ginn Academy. I think it is great they are providing help to kids who would not have the opportunities otherwise. But you are talking about a D4 program that has 10+ college D1 prospects and 3 of them are ranked as the top 50 players in Ohio. Those players will be replaced by other D1 college prospects. That is not organic for a D4 school, hell that is nor organic for the majority of D1 programs. You can't have schools pulling kids from an entire metro area of 1- 2 million against micropolitan areas of 60,000 at best as most are small/rural towns of 15,000. There is no getting better and working harder once a team is just loaded with talent and more importantly depth. I am sure these smaller schools are going to work hard and not complain and do what they have to do to try and win. Hell, Perkins and Canton South both just battled and have nothing to be ashamed of in effort and more importantly how they conducted themselves. Yet the outcome was what everyone expected. Schools like that may even pull one off every so often, but how is that fun in the long haul let alone fair?
3rd and final point is to the gentlemen who says you win you move up for 3 years. If you win again, you keep moving up. There is a reason why Boxing has referee stoppage and the corner throwing in the towel. No one wants to see people keep getting pounded needlessly. We have all seen games where the smaller program (D7/D6/D5/) beat the highly ranked bigger program (Top 10 D3/D2/D1). But to do that for a season is hard on any team's health. The smaller schools would not have the depth (the whole reason why we classify teams by size to begin with) to make a schedule hard enough to play a few classes up that would allow them to prepare for the playoffs. They would be too beat up week in week out playing D3/D2 teams. 1 game here and there? Sure! A season? No! Plus, teams like the MAC or Ironton, could you imagine the financial burden due to travel cost playing a D3/D2 schedule? The other option is to keep your same small school schedule and be totally shell shocked in the playoffs and not in position to make a run. I am sure the kids would not be scared of the competition, but the adults in the room need to think for them. Hence my boxing analogy.