Travis, is it possible that there ARE Regional IT programs that are as serious as National programs? If you say yes, then I wonder why you are so persistant that some people may be arrogant? Why are you pressing so hard on something that you don't know about?

We don't have regional sterotypes. We know that a guy like Kip V. won't do ANYTHING different in his IT program if it went National. We also know that if it went National, and it raised the level of the cars in a region, it will have a significant affect.

The issue is prediciting the result of those outcomes at the National and Regional levels. I am confident that boths sides would be 'right' in various parts of the country. What the best thing for IT is - we won't know until it is tested.