CCS Open ... and the rest

[colhenrylives]

It's a problem. Well, sort of. The CCS girls' basketball situation has long been the province of the private/parochial schools. That's a given in today's world. With the advent of the CCS Open Division, the bulk of the interest is there; the other divisions, 1 through 5, have been relegated to secondary status in a very big way. It's tough to drum up enthusiasm for 1 through 5 when the best units aren't involved. All the air has been sucked out of the room. Oddly, even if CCS did not have an Open Division, Division 1 would still be free of private/parochials on the female side based only on enrollment. It would be all publics as it is now. If CCS were to ditch the Open and go to an equity/program strength system, Division 1 would become, de facto, an Open Division again.

 

[ClayK]

So this is also the problem with the persistent proposal to have a public/private split in California as a whole -- then the public side becomes just a sideshow and no matter how good a public school might be in a particular year, the private winner just shrugs it away because obviously no public school can compete with a private school.

It sounds good on the surface, but the result is visible in CCS -- which is one reason why almost every state that had a public/private split at one point has gone back to one pool of teams.

 

[cmyxover]

It's tough. I see why / why not.
The open was created for a reason.