Not really a path I intended my question to go down. Public vs Private is not going away anytime soon, especially not this year.
If you are Madeira, who came as close as anyone to knocking off Cincinnati D1's best (OH) what is the challenge? Some games maybe, but mostly not. As for Columbus it "appears" that most of the "traditional" powerhouse schools are still in D1. Where in Cincinnati some of the "traditional" powers are now D2 or D3.
If the number of teams in a Division is the issue (formerly 200+) then why not go to even more divisions, not stopping at 5, if in fact football has 5-8, why not do the same for soccer, if it is about catching up?