This is a state where football is, judging from revenues, king.

Without a single football proposal on the table, administrators still had plenty to discuss, including a possible move of state-tournament basketball games to the neighbor islands.

Athletic directors met for day one of the Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association conference on Friday at the Ala Moana Hotel. The general assembly and committee meetings went smoothly, with a lengthy back-and-forth in Group 4, which is handling eight "concerns," or proposals.

Hawaii High School Athletic Association executive director Chris Chun initiated the proposal. The recommendation proposes a regional host for 12-team state championship sports.

"I’m kind of optimistic," Chun said on Friday night.

The changes would include spreading, as an example, the boys basketball tourney to two weekends, with games on Friday and Saturday nights. The first weekend would have host sites by the Big Island Interscholastic Federation, Maui Interscholastic League, Interscholastic League of Honolulu and Oahu Interscholastic Association.

League champions would have a bye in the first round (Friday) before hosting a quarterfinal game on Saturday. One argument in favor of this setup is that sites on Hawaii island have a history of drawing well for league championship games — from 2,000 to 4,000 spectators.

The same scenario in high school gyms on Oahu normally draws a few hundred fans in the first two rounds.

One of the arguments against a change is that a few teams may wind up traveling on each weekend to play in the state tourney.

But financial incentive would seem to be enough to entice administrators. The math favors those who might support the proposal. A crowd of 3,000 in the Hilo Civic compared to a gathering of 500 on Oahu should cover additional costs. But the notion of subsidized travel hasn’t come up. Yet.

"Only two Oahu teams would travel," Chun added.

Hawaii Baptist athletic director Deron Oshiro said the proposal went to straw vote and lost by a narrow margin. But the real vote is yet to come.

After the discussion in committee, leagues met late Friday night in caucuses. Athletic directors return to their committees this morning. Anything could still happen.

"A lot of people are open to the idea. There are a lot of questions about where the games would be and the effect on seeding," Oshiro said. "But Chris Chun said seeding wouldn’t be affected."

Costs would be lower with the elimination of consolation-play games.

"Instead of staying for a whole tournament (four days), they could leave the next day (after a loss)," Oshiro noted. "I think there’s value to consolation games and coming back after a hard loss."

Oshiro also noted that the proposal applies to Division I tournaments only. His school is in D-II.

"There’s probably going to be a longer discussion (today)," he said. "A lot of people are intrigued."

There’s also a possibility of doing the regionals on a limited, pilot-program basis, testing it out with one or two sports at first.

Historically, the ILH has shown more flexibility about postseason travel while the OIA has usually been averse to it. But if the ILH, BIIF, MIL and KIF vote in favor of this proposal — or an amended version of it — they would outnumber the public-school OIA, the state’s largest league.

First, though, the proposal would have to get out of committee today.