ISSA Schoolboy Football - New Structure for Manning Cup

As was expected the change in leadership at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is introducing a new way of thinking within the organization. Recently, in response to a number of problems during the Manning and daCosta Cup competitions due to scheduling and teams withdrawing from the competitions, ISSA has announced that next season will see the Manning Cup (for urban teams) being split into two divisions. There I suppose, will be a premier division and then a secondary division. It is anticipated that the top two teams of the secondary division will join the the top teams in the premier division in the 'playoffs' for the Manning Cup. This is supposed to reduce the number of mediocre teams in the Manning Cup and increase the quality of the competition. And right on cue there are the critics who are all over ISSA's new approach.
(As an aside ISSA has also planned to have more double headers next season as well. The thinking behind this according to the President is to give fans two games at the price of one - a bargain. More on this later).
To be honest criticism is fine by me, just ensure that it has some basis and is valid. These two elements I believe are missing from the criticisms of ISSA's new approach. The main criticism(s) that I hear coming through is that schoolboy football must not be segregated, all teams must play against each other and the weaker teams must take their 'wallopings' until they become good. These critics often refer to the number of teams who started out 'slowly' but now are good teams. Others tend to give the impression that schoolboy football is a 'fun thing' and must not be taken too seriously. Just let the lads have fun and whichever teams/school wants to play just let them play. These arguments to me are just ridiculous, but ISSA is to be blamed for their proliferation. WHY?
There are a number of reasons:

1. ISSA has failed to establish the link between its schoolboy competition and the national program. ISSA competitions are the best chance that Jamaica has for establishing elite development programs for it young and talented footballers, that will ultimately benefit the national program. Therefore it is essential to have the best talent compete against each other.
2. ISSA has failed for many years to establish any standards of quality for its competitions.
3. ISSA has failed to properly manage the resources it spends on schoolboy competitions.
4. ISSA has failed to galvanize its members around a common goal as it it relates to its schoolboy competitions.

Nevertheless ISSA is to be commended for its courage to make changes to the 'holy cow' that is schoolboy football. But should pay close attention to reasons for making their decisions and how they communicate those reasons to their stakeholders.