The opening for boys varsity basketball coach at Coeur d’Alene High has been posted. It is scheduled to close May 3, and school officials hope to conduct interviews the following week.

We’ve heard of a few people who have put their names in, but we’ll wait and see how the process plays out. It will be interesting to see if the question of parental impact on a program comes up at some point.

THE STATE football brackets for 3A, 1A Division I and 1A Division II for this fall were finalized at the Idaho High School Activities Association board meeting earlier this month in Boise.

In 3A, the Intermountain League will again play a full nine-game regular season, and the top two teams will advance to the state playoffs. The IML champ will host the winner of a play-in game between the District 3 (Snake River Valley Conference) runner-up and the District 4 runner-up. The IML runner-up will travel to the winner of a play-in game between the District 3 champ and the third-place team from District 4.

In 1A Division I, the winner between Lakeside and Wallace will host the District 2 runner-up in the quarterfinals. In 1A Division II, either Kootenai, Mullan or Clark Fork will host the District 3 champion.

FOR STATE wrestling in 2014, District 1-2 will get three berths in 5A and two in 4A. District 1 will get three in 3A, and District 1-2 will get four in 2A.

For state boys and girls basketball next year, District 1-2 will get two berths to state in 5A (no play-in) and the usual one in 4A, District 1 will get 1.5 berths in 3A (another play-in), District 1-2 will get one berth in 2A (no play-in this year for the district runner-up), District 1 will get a half-berth again in 1A Division I (play-in vs. District 2 third-place team again), and District 1 gets only a half-berth in 1A Division II (a state play-in vs. District 2 runner-up). In recent years, the District 1 champ between Kootenai, Clark Fork and Mullan advanced directly to state.

FUTURE STATE tournament sites for the 2013-14 school year have been approved. Not much coming to the North — all of the volleyball will be up here, with the 5A, 4A and 3A tournaments at Lake City, Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene, depending on who qualifies (teams can’t play state in their own gym), the 2A at Lakeland, the 1A Division I at Lewis-Clark State College and the 1A Division II at Lewiston High’s Booth Hall.

That’s it. All of softball is tentatively scheduled for District 3 — usually, the Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls area gets either the 5A and 4A, or the 3A tourney.

In 2014-15, state 4A soccer is tentatively set for Coeur d’Alene and Lake City. State golf is all in North Idaho, state 5A softball at Post Falls, and state 4A and 3A softball in Coeur d’Alene. All of those sites are tentative.

NOW FOR the key news — an estimated 115,075 mini-bottles of chocolate milk were distributed free to fans at state volleyball, basketball and wrestling tournaments, courtesy of the United Dairymen of Idaho.

The breakdown — 13,850 at the volleyball tournaments, 25,725 at girls basketball, 50,500 at boys basketball, and 25,000 at wrestling.

In addition to being a nice little treat from the United Dairymen of Idaho, chocolate milk does a nice job of washing down those mini-doughnuts at the Idaho Center during state basketball — or so I hear.

Mark Nelke is sports editor of The Press. He can be reached at 664-8176, Ext. 2019, or via email at mnelke@cdapress.com. Follow him on Twitter at CdAPressSports.