Last week the Bristol Herald Courier ran a story about the potential of Grundy and the rest of the SWD dropping to Group A. Later in a thread about this on swvafootball.com, some of us were discussing what Region D might look like if Tazewell, Richlands, Graham, and Grundy dropped to Group A.

As most of you here know, Tazewell, Graham and Grundy are small enough to drop now but are basically hanging around in AA because of Richlands, who may be eligible to drop in two years. Marion has roughly the same enrollment as Richlands, but my thought is they would go to the Hogoheegee if they dropped.

One idea I floated is to redistrict Region D into four leagues--two for the larger half of schools, two for the smaller half. This would work out well for divisional play as only schools in the same division would compete against each other for district titles.

SOUTHWEST:
Grundy
Tazewell
Graham
Richlands
Honaker
Lebanon

LONESOME PINE (do away with Clinch Mountain):
Gate City
Powell Valley
Virginia High
Coeburn
JJ Kelly
Lee
John Battle

BLACK DIAMOND:
Council
Twin Valley
Hurley
Haysi
Clintwood
Pound
Ervinton

CUMBERLAND:
JI Burton
Appalachia
St. Paul
Twin Springs
Rye Cove
Castlewood
Thomas Walker

Of course, some schools would oppose this (no setup would please everyone) but it would alleviate the problem of smaller schools having to compete with larger ones. All the Division 2 schools would be together in two districts and likewise for Division 1 schools.