[killbilly usmc]

I actually will think it might cut down on travel for teams in some situations. If a district has to go way out west or east from their central location, getting another central district would end up cutting down on travel time for them that year at least.

Having districts 2 and 3 play each other cuts down on a lot of the travel for them, but kind of hurts 1 and 4. But, the distance between districts 4 and 5 isn't huge.

Someone is always going to have to travel, and that's never going to change. But, being able to occasionally cut down on annual travel while giving teams a new environment and new teams to play is enough for me to be on board.

Don't know the layout in the east, but in the far west you will never get a closer game in the early rounds of playoffs if you are in district 1. Mayfields 1st 3 playoff games last year was Hancock county, butler county, and Owensboro Catholic. If you pair mayfield with any other district besides district 2 the closest opponent would be in Louisville area, so when mayfield doesn't pair up with district 2 they will be playing teams that are farther like green county, glasgow, desales, Cal in the 1st 3 rounds there will never be a year when it gives a far west team closer games in the 1st 3 rounds, the only round it could happen would be semis if they played o cath instead of a Louisville team, but that would mean they had to travel further for 3 rounds just to get a closer opponent for 1 round. Not a good trade off at all out west as far as travel. If you get a 1 seed in your district not as big a deal, but any team like say Murray that has been The number 2 team in the district lately will be losing money on travel. The positive is not having to see the same teams every year in the early rounds, and new places to visit.