THere is another proposal on the board lumped together with D3 tennis and golf to use an AQ system just like football or basketball. Basically, if you win your conference, you get to go to regionals, or possibly nationals, and if not, you're done.
In other words, if you're the # 2 team in the country, but the #1 team is in your conference and you lose by even 1 point, that's it, your season is done, where as Middle of Nowhere State goes because they won their conference.
This applies to individuals as well as teams, as far as I know
I believe the logic behind this is that these are the last 3 team sports in D3 that don't use this system, and also, people want equal representation at a national meet.
Thoughts?...Also, if I screwed up on some of the info, please correct me.