I assume this is about leveling the playing field, especially among privates vs. publics. That's a big issue in Tennessee, and I would assume Ohio as well. Tennessee has several private schools that have become football power houses and the public school fans don't like it. 

I agree with Delete Pending on this. 

Alan, I'm not viewing this as a "trophies for everyone" type plan.  I agree with you that the trend toward everyone getting a trophy is maddening and not healthy.  I don't think this rule promotes that, though. 

It sounds like a reasonable method of determining an adjusted "school enrollment" figure that takes into account private school recruiting outside their areas.   

You make some good points but first let's get the facts right.  VASJ competed at the D 3 level this year not D 4 and was one of the smallest D 3 schools in the state.  They had 122 boys for the official count.  This rule would not affect them in the least even if every boy on the team counted as a 2.  The only teams that this will affect are those that are just below the cut off for their division.   Additionally it does nothing for the disparity between the smallest D 1 schools and the largest.  If I'm a parent of a student and depending where we live, sending my child to one of these "powerhouses" might be their best educational option.  On the flip side, with these crazy contracts that teachers in the Cincinnati and Cleveland dioceses are being forced to sign, I couldn't with a clear conscious send my kid to those schools either (but that's another thread for another time).

It will be interesting to see how this plays out but my gut feeling is that it will change very little in terms of the teams that play for the state championships every year.

http://www.ohsaa.org/members/sptdivis13.htm

Lande that tells me something - either the school with that many open enrollment students is a very fine school or the schools that those students are coming from aren't so fine.  When you say 360, is that at the high school level or district wide?

I think most schools in the state have agreed for a long time that something needed to change but no one could come up with an idea that enough would agree to. I'm with Alan that I think this formula will have minimal impact. But the OHSAA has said it would be a good starting point and if it turns out true that hardly any teams move up or down, the formula can be modified. I personally was glad to see that it passed.