All schools with no boundaries will be multiplied. There will be no waivers.

Class expansion has been one of those issues over the past decade that has repeatedly been brought to the forefront by member schools. However, until the membership was polled in the recent advisory referendum, there hadn't been the kind of support to warrant such an expansion.

I know a lot of people think it will water things down, but they said that when we went to two classes. I think this will do a lot to help balance out the competition.

No, it really isn't. People who believe we have made a mistake by expanding the classes believe we will generate less revenue with this.

People had their chance, had their opportunity to respond. At this point, our board is committed to going through with this expansion. Now, if somebody collected some data saying they want to look further into this expansion, it's something we'd look at.

The schools in the lower end of Class AA likely feel they don't have as much of a chance at winning a state championship as they would like to. Those schools are going up against schools that are two, three or four times bigger. We're looking to have competitive equity.

We're thrilled to be able to celebrate our boys basketball centennial by directly involving the fans, who have supported our tournament in great numbers throughout the years is a fun was to get folks interested in our rich history and set the table for a terrific celebration in 2007.

We had a tremendous bid from Northern and we also had a tremendous big from the University of Illinois. At the end of the day our board concluded that we would return to the U of I.

The expansion of classes was supported by our membership, and as I've said in the past, we're a membership-driven organization. Those who voted favored this move.

We have had a wonderful experience at the University of Illinois the last several years.