[OrangenowBlue]

Years ago, the regional runner-up did advance to the state tourney. That was in the days when not as many regions were fielding teams. If you did that, you'd have to fiddle with the format as it is too time constrained now. As another poster said, it's pretty bad when the best tournament is the LIT--VERY true.

Actually it is not the LIT. It is the PCSLIT(Private Catholic School Louisville Invitational Tournament). Most of the public schools in Louisville are not doing much better then the public schools in the rest of the state. It has been all private catholic schools so far and will continue to be for a long time. Club volleyball is easy to establish when you live in a large urban area with a large population. Every state champion has came from either Louisville or the Greater Cincinnati area. At the private schools, most of the players dedicate their life to volleyball year around. Most volleyball players at the public schools out in the state play multiple sports as most schools in Kentucky are rural and depend on their good female athletes to play multiple sports to be competitive. It has always been and will continue to be an urban Catholic sport in Kentucky. Until the public schools start catching up, which I do not see happening for a long time, my suggestion would be one of two choices. The first being that they continue to play the normal 16 regional tournaments. Then play a subsection to narrow it down to 8 teams. Then use the most reputable coaches poll and invite the top 8 ranked teams that were previously eliminated and add them with the 8 subsection winners and have a state tournament. The other option would be is to have a public school state tournament and a private school state tournament at the same time at the same facility. Have the two state championships on a Saturday night at the same place. Crown these schools as the public and private state champions The following day(probably Sunday), have a match between the two winners to have an overall state champion.