What will the cost be?

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depends upon how it plays out....

 

if the TSSAA does what it did in '96, and basically washes its hands of the private schools, leaving them to search all over the country just to get a regular season schedule, then the movement will pick up steam to leave the TSSAA.  IT will take years though.  If you see a period like we saw in the early '00's, when basically the D2 teams couldn't get games with any D1 public schools, then what's the point of dealing with the TSSAA's arcane rules, Tuesday night state championship games, Saturday crack of dawn state championship basketball games, etc.  

 

if on the other hand, the TSSAA does the right thing, and keeps everyone together in the regular season, with games scheduled between both public and private, with separate post-seasons, then everything will be fine and everyone will have a fair outcome.  I think this is what will happen and it will be the smartest thing the TSSAA has done in a while...because they are in fact really worried about the private schools leaving, which of course, is their own fault for what they did over the previous 20 years.