The coaches (including me at the time) voted to have the split with small/large school individuals. Obviously, our intent was to attempt to grow the sport not to dimenish it. I see both sides and agree with both sides, but if this change helps grow the sport we've accomplished our goal. If not, it can be scrapped with very little, if any, damage.
Those that know me know that I'm about as "old school" as they come and believe's in the theory that there is only one true champion, but as a coach at a small school without any surrounding support, I recognized that an attempt at something different was needed to help increase interest and/or participation.
This may or may not increase interest and/or participation, but an attempt needed to be made and this was the best option. Not sure that it will work, but we had to try something.
Let's give it a shot for a couple of years and see if it's done what we had hoped it would. If not, changing back to the previous structure or tweaking the current one may be the answer. Either way, like I said, I don't believe this change is going to "damage" anything.