The complainers about promotion and demotion and punishing winners is a straw man argument. So let me get this straight. Almost all the real state contenders in d-4 and above cheat and recruit their players whether they are open enrollment of private schools. They have all star teams from around their counties and basically the same 10% of schools fight it out for a state championship every year. So the rest of the 90% get to get their brains bashed in if they qualify for the playoffs and play the all star teams. So to spare the lower divisions who cheat less, just do promotion and demotion in top 4 divisions. Problem solved. top 15% go up and and down every year based on a 4 year average of wins. Let all the cheaters fight it out in top 2 divisions.
I find this odd because there is less parity and more blowouts in the small divisions. Ain’t that a problem too?