Welcome to the UPA's College Restructuring Forum

Welcome to the UPA's college restructuring forum! As you may know the UPA is looking at making some significant changes to its college competitive structure. This restructuring is one of the components of the UPA's Strategic Plan. In December, 2008 the UPA gathered a committee of various stakeholders together to review data collected from several surveys conducted over the past 24 months and outline potential structures for the future of college Ultimate competition. These structures were narrowed down to two that we are seeking member feedback on: the Super-Regional structure and the Conference structure.

This forum seeks to gather qualitative feedback on these two plans. Through this feedback the UPA will propose additional details to the plans and develop a mechanism for quantitative feedback. If this feedback is positive, the UPA will develop a plan to transition to and implement the more widely accepted structure.

There are four main sections of this blog:
•Common Elements: These are major elements of the competition structure that both plans share
•Plan Feedback: Super-Regionals
•Plan Feedback: Conference Structure
•Plan(s) Comparison to existing college competitive structure

Once you've read through the plans on the UPA website, you can add your comments by heading over to the topics listed on the left side navigation bar or by simply scrolling down on the home page of the blog.

Before commenting, please feel free to re-read the parts of the plans related to the questions and any supporting documents as well as the discussion ground rules listed at the top left of the blog.

A moderator has been assigned to each major discussion topic to help keep the discussion active and on track. The moderator also has the right to remove posts that are in violation of the discussion ground rules. Obviously, the UPA would prefer to "police" the discussion as little as possible so please be respectful of your fellow posters, most of whom you could encounter on an Ultimate field.

The blog will be open for comments until March 31st at which point we will close it and use the comments to help develop the quantitative assessment.

If there are questions that you would like to see added please e-mail Kyle Weisbrod at kyle.weisbrod (at) upa.org. We can not guarantee that we would add your question as we would have to look at the feedback and data gathered so far. Additional questions may be added by the UPA if ongoing discussions warrant separating out new or specific topics.

If you have any comments about the usability of the site please e-mail kyle.weisbrod (at) upa.org