tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-675840884075304933.post4748171785038317929..comments2021-04-12T10:17:47.549-07:00Comments on Watchout Cross Country Rankings: Travel distance to NXN Regionals - a reason for rearranging the regional borders (tl;dr Summary) Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-675840884075304933.post-33334838007699777702013-11-09T09:35:19.510-08:002013-11-09T09:35:19.510-08:00Gotta stay with the state you're a part of. Bu...Gotta stay with the state you're a part of. But that brings up another good point - if there were to be 11 regions, this might be a way to go about it: Texas as it's own region (it pretty much is already), move Louisiana to the Southeast (Atlanta), and create a new regional in Kansas City for OK/AR/KS/MO/NE/IA, and move the current Heartland to Minneapolis for a more centralized ND/SD/MN/WI region. That would probably not be a benefit to the competitiveness of the national field, though... Heartland isn't a bad region, but it doesn't exactly have the depth needed to combine with the South (a much weaker region, especially sans Texas) for a third region, even throwing Missouri back into the mix. The tenth region, plus re-arranging the regions, wouldn't add many weaker teams to the field (probably 1 on each side per year, 2 in bad years)... splitting off Texas as an 11th would add 2 more weak teams (from the former South sans Texas) virtually every year, at the expense of National At-Large teams - not a good trade, but maybe some day it would be worth it? watchouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02838975063853852963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-675840884075304933.post-11517013476524867002013-11-09T05:56:54.915-08:002013-11-09T05:56:54.915-08:00My team is from El Paso TX. We have attended Nike...My team is from El Paso TX. We have attended Nike South for the past two years. Houston is a 13 hour drive for us, but Mesa Az. Is only a 6 hour drive. Its said that El Paso is so far away from the rest of Tx that we are more apart of NM than TX. Could just El Paso be part of the southwest region?elpasohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479189081341388189noreply@blogger.com