i think pipelines would be cool, but i think it would result in even more entrenchment than the status quo, with fewer battles. which makes me a bit of a skeptic... i think it would have to be very carefully designed, pipelines in my opinion should favor smaller schools, but i think achieving that in the WIS landscape, is very difficult. to me, the nature of big schools is to recruit all over (in a grossly simplified view, i know they totally have areas too), while smaller schools can better tolerate taking the best from a certain area, even when its not as strong as usual. but in HD, with so many power schools having such small areas they recruit in, i'm not sure it would work like we would hope. if d1 recruiting was less localized, i would probably think this was really cool, but with such localized recruiting, im afraid of the consequences.