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Re: Confirmed New Districts for 2015?

Texas travel time is far longer than most other states.

El Paso to Houston is 10+ hours. If Houston hosted the state championship some teams would need to make that drive. Even if it was some place more central like Austin it would be 8+ hrs for them.

I want to go to districts as fast as possible but we would definitely have to do something to lessen the burden of travel for some of these teams.

Another issue is funding since Texas basically has regions with in it self and sponsors may want to keep their money closer to home instead of giving it to the entire state.

The last and probably biggest problem is our lack of team growth.
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2010 = 104 teams
2011 = 144 teams
2012 = 147 teams
2013 = 139 teams
2014 = 132 teams
Until we can start growing teams it's going to be hard to sustain districts, no matter how much work we put in. Districts may help by providing a true State Championship and having more play per team but it still won't be easy.
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