The Fox Chapel Area School District has proposed a new competitive balance plan for high school football in western Pennsylvania that would classify teams by roster size and winning records instead of by enrollment.

Fox Chapel athletic director Mike O'Brien has been pushing for a change to the competitive balance formula and the district's proposed plan that was recently sent to the WPIAL was released on Tuesday.

Under the proposed plan from Fox Chapel, football teams in the WPIAL would be broken down into seven different divisions based on "a team's current and past performances, roster numbers, and a program's current standing."

"We need to evolve," O'Brien said. "We need to meet these student-athletes and teams where they are and consider other factors when placing teams in categorie

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