Sounds like the teams at the most disadvantage in the entire state by far is the metro teams no talent wants to play for. Because how is 80 percent of the teams in Dade and Broward scary bad? They get their talent plucked by the top 20 percent. And those teams don’t have to recruit. Players know who is good and who has coaches with the right connections to increase their chances to get to college. And if they are already D1 they know which teams have the best chance to win a title. They don’t need to recruit anymore.
The only thing I can think of that would make any sense to the issue with transfers is any team with 7 plus transfers in a offseason (random number. It can be 5-10 etc), that team automatically has to play in an open division bracket for the playoffs.
NFL and FBS college football is about how much money you want to invest. Bad teams in the NFL are bad because they won't spend the money on free agents and trade their best players for profit ( the late Hugh Culverhouse was tops at it, lol). FBS requires a financial commitment higher than FCS or Division 2 or 3. Plus college football allows for recruitment of talent. High school football doesn't, or at least isn't supposed to. But then we see threads, like the another one on this page where 25 players follow a coach across the city to another school. That's not right.
You get it. None of these schools in this new conference are in metropolitan areas were they can pick off talent from a neighboring school. These schools share a number of similarities in demographics and traditions. It's my hope that the conference expands to 10 or 12 members and a few more conferences like it form around the state.