As I have said before, two things won't be changed with the MPSSAA:
1. They will not force teams to play each other
2. They will not force teams to travel exceptionally far for the playoff's first two rounds
If they even begin to tinker with doing away with regions (which I believe they will not), then the MPSSAA will have to look at neutral sites for the playoffs given rule #2 above. I have heard this neutral site proposal from many people. With this you will get coaches complaining because they earned home field advantage in the regular season but don't get it. On top of that it's hard to set up neutral fields when you don't know who is playing who. If you set up say Frederick or Hagerstown as a neutral site for a playoff game, and for example FH has to travel there in the first round to play 4th seeded Northern...what good is that? Not only are FH and Northern upset for having to travel that far, but the MPSSAA goes broke paying for it. Even sectional alignments like in basketball give teams fits. I can state for a fact that Alco basketball is extremely upset they have to travel to Frederick or Hagerstown every year to play for the region crown. And the Southern girls basketball team is even more peeved about it.
If the MPSSAA does go to a sectional alignment in football like in other sports, they will have to force teams to play each other (see rule #1). Alco, FH, Hancock, Northern and Southern will all be forced to play each other in football. And there is no way that solution is going to get passed. Now I have used 1A West as examples here so everyone can see what I'm trying to say, but the logic applies to the whole state.
My take on overloaded regions is that at some point the state title goes through FH, Damascus and Wise in 2015. Whether you get them early or at M&T is irrelevant to a large degree in my eyes. You still have to play them to win it all. For those who cry about Alco and FH having to play back-to-back weekends I say if it bothers you that much then move the Homecoming game up. The rest of the state is not setting things up so Homecoming can take priority. That's so greedy to even think such a thing.
If the top 8 in each region make the playoffs then I see the "overloaded" region complaint as small potatoes. OK, so it stinks having to play Damascus in the 2nd round or whatever instead of the 4th round. If coaches start complaining about playing Damascus in the 2nd round instead of the 4th round, they are just reaching for complaining straws because their kids didn't make it far enough. BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO BEAT DAMASCUS AT SOME POINT.
Because you see, this is not about winning a state championship in today's participation trophy world. This is about just getting to the playoffs and then just getting a possible playoff win for the kids. For the majority of teams...winning a state title is the last thing they can envision.
Nobody is ever going to be totally happy with any solution.