I understand the 4th division conversation but I had a talk with previous person at OHSAA and OATCCC presented all the good of a 4th division but did not present anything about what could be bad about it. You have to present both sides and have something to help resolve the issues we are going to have with adding another division. These are just some things I have thought of that we need to help present a resolution for to help push this through.
1) officials to handle more districts. (we have lost 60-70 officials this year alone.) Yes we do not need as many as we have a lot of times but we do need more than we have for adding more meets. You cant have coaches be exchange zone judges at a district meet.
2) do we combine a couple districts to help with this by running 2 at same time at same site. Run d1-d2 at same site so that if a school is split between 2 divisions the coaches can be there for both. Then run the meet as D1 100h, d2 100h, d1 110h, d2 110h, d1 100m, d2 100m, etc. move a distance event (800m for example) to prelim day
3) do we have enough timing companies to handle all the extra meets with all the extra equipment needed for this level of competition. Yes there are some schools that have their own system and could run them but there are also schools that have a system and have no clue.
4) how do you split the divisions up? If splitting by the standard OHSAA policy of 25%-25%-25%-25% with the last division be some very small teams that may not even have enough athletes to fill most events and those meets be very small.
5) do you possibly just split division 1 up into 2 different ones.
6) Since you are adding another division we need to do away with the extra qualifiers as you may have to go to another state site and only have 8 lanes as we did in 2021.
7) state meet schedule move to 3 days to allow it to be an enjoyable day for all involved. extra cost for facility
8) I'm sure there is more
I didn't post this for everyone to argue with me but for people to try to find the good and bad and help resolve this before it gets done and then we find all these problems and have no resolution to them.