FRANKLIN — Whenever there’s too many cooks in the kitchen, chances are something will go wrong.

Be it in the back of a restaurant or the halls of 33 Forge Parkway, organized structure is always needed. That’s what the MIAA preached when its board of directors convened Wednesday.

During a meeting that took nearly two hours, the association recapped its fiscal year, and measures to prevent miscommunication between its primary channels from top to bottom.

For years, coaches, players and parents have grappled with the questions that come with exclusion and endowment games. Do they count? Why is my rating lower?

A key question to be answered: How can the MIAA work with its subcommittees on the topic?

“I think what we’re trying to do here, in all of our discussions and with those two topics, is to bring light to the situations that we experience and administer each and every day in the office,” said MIAA Associate Director Richard Pearson. “But who can help us manage the overall expectation of that? Should we bring it to the board? Should we bring it to a committee? How do we do that? So I think we were using those two examples as vehicles for how we function.”

As for the prospect of continuing with endowment and exclusion contests, the MIAA says it may look into changes moving forward.

“You heard on the fly that there were a total of five endowment games in the fall,” said MIAA Executive Director Bob Baldwin. “So, is there a need? I’m trying to learn understanding of the endowment game. What’s the endowment towards, where does it go to, what do we need it for, do we need it?

“Then the exclusion games. I know I come from the South Coast, where it was Durfee, New Bedford and Brockton. Nobody would play them because they’re so good, and they needed to have (them), or Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Well, with the new statewide tournament, people are playing people they’ve never played before. Is there a need? We’ll investigate.”

The board also focused heavily on its budgeted fiscal year expenditures and revenues. Following a successful period, the board opted to continue with its economic plan as constituted for the most part. Also mentioned was a slight increase in postseason dues for schools, which would be discussed further by the MIAA subcommittee.

One thing the MIAA and the majority of its board members agreed upon was the recent success of the fall statewide tournament. While the power rankings have consistently been a point of debate, their ability to foreshadow future events were proven once again by data. In the most extreme instance, 92% of higher-ranked seeds advanced during the early field hockey playoff matchups, while 78% of football seeds followed suit. At the association’s Super Bowls this past week, roughly 22,000-24,000 were in attendance.

“I think it’s been a great success,” Pearson said. “I think it’s been a great success for excitement. I think it’s been a great success for rivalries, new rivalries, old rivalries. I think it’s been a great success for students experiencing different venues, different places, different teams. I think in the overall, it’s been excellent, it’s been great.”

The next MIAA meeting is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 7, with a placeholder date of Jan. 10 should a problem arise.

“It was a full meeting,” Baldwin said. “We wanted it to be a working meeting. We’ve reorganized a little bit with our constitution, and the board of directors is the number one regulatory authority. We wanted to show them how they fit in the grand scheme. We used real-life experiences. I don’t know if we got any productivity out of it, but we certainly got direction with where to go with certain issues that come across our board.”