Original sentence: The creation of the new conference appears to finally settle an unstable situation that has existed in the NCIC since the departure of the Rochelle Hubs after winning nine consecutive NCIC football championships.When Rochelle became a founding member of the Western Sun, the NCIC began shifting members trying to keep together a conference that was built of schools with inordinately large population variances
Edited sentence: Rochelle became a founding member of the Western Sun, but found that they could not hang with the big schools on the football field.The NCIC began shifting members trying to keep together a conference that was built of schools with inordinately large population variances.The creation of the new conference appears to finally settle an unstable situation that has existed in the NCIC since the departure of the Rochelle Hubs after winning nine consecutive NCIC football championships against very weak competition