Joe W,
Your idea of a dual meet is good, and would make an excellent starting point to examine interest levels. Probably the reason folks didn't chime in is that someone would have to organize the dual part of the meet, and if they chimed in they might be tapped to do it. It is far easier to talk the talk than walk the walk.

I have noticed, after reading the forums for a few years, that a lot of folks have good ideas for others folks to do. People will suggest a new idea, and ask that it be done. Well, the hard truth is that the person with the idea, if he really wants it done, is the person who has to drive it. Sometimes it is funny to see the reaction of a person who came up with a "great idea". He often expects people to jump on the bandwagon and organize it for him.

Maybe we need less builders, designers, and fliers and instead more folks with good ideas, and other folks to implement them!!!! LOL. There are proven paralells for that in the real world, we call them Congress and Bureaucracy.