text: This is the thing about State Championships, sports excellence, memorable performances.  They have to be good and they have to be legitimate.  There are Champions we just don't remember because they weren't that good.  There are Champions we know about and actually were good, but they fade in our memories because they inspire no sense of legitimacy.  It happens in the pros, college, high school and pop warner.   It's a tenuous balance.  This whole issue is being worked quite expertly by both the media and local forces (statewide) that are finally getting sick and tired of the OIA's machinations.  For the first time ever, OIA crab in the bucket is resented, officially it seems, more than the ILH's supposed "recruiting".   The OIA approach is being maneuvered into a place where, if it ends up getting its way, its next State Champion (if any) will be considered maybe not that good AND illegitimate.  Astoundingly, the OIA is managing to make the ILH a perceived sympathetic figure.