If you’re considering 16 in the biggest class, I would be curious to Know what the 16th largest private school in Illinois is. If it is a school if 800, we are fine. If it’s a school if 700, that can probably work but may be a stretch. Once you get into the 600s, it is quite a bit harder to justify putting them in a class with schools so much larger than them, especially if it is a school with no football culture.In something I typed in a different thread not that long ago I mentioned you didn’t necessarily have to have equal size brackets. If you aren’t taking everyone into the playoffs (as in you just qualify) maybe you only have a 16 team top bracket and 32 team middle bracket and a 24 team small bracket. Idk. As I said at the time I’d have to seen the exact enrollments of all private’s lines up from biggest to smallest to see how many teams fell into the 3 divisions at what would be reasonable cut off lines.
would love to see a list of IL private schools in order of enrollment. That could really help us visualize where a reasonable cutoff might be.