DeMarco,
Flying teams around because of the super-regional refers to a modification of the current model. There are many who feel that to do some seeding of the super-regions before the meet would be the fairest method. This would be to prevent two of the weakest or two of the strongest regions showing up in the same super region.
One possible method (not at all the only way to go about it) would be to rank the regions into three categories:
strongest, middle, weakest.
Strong: Great Lakes, West, Mountains
Medium: Mid Atlantic, South East, Mid West
Weak: South, South Central, Northeast
Super Region One: Great Lakes, Mid West, South
Super Region Two: West, South East, South Central
Super Region Three: Mountains, Mid Atlantic, Northeast
Some people say, just use the top 40 schools as those that might fly, leaving everyone else to stay in their own geographical super region. Given that 1/3 of the schools will stay home, and another 1/3 will find that by chance they will fall in their own geographical super regional (for example, Great Lakes and South above), the actual number of school that would fly would be around 10-15. Given that over 100 schools fly to prenationals in search of at large points, it certainly can be seen that there will be a huge reduction in air travel with a super regional seeded format, as well as a fairer method of selection.