re: Louisiana High School Football will split Public/Private. **Edited with Yes/No**

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They just don't do that.

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well they should...

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When the privates take their money and leave the LHSAA, you'll see righteous anger.

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So that's what it amounts to? Kids have been threatening to take their balls and go home if they don't get their way since games were invented. Yet somehow the games always manage to go on.

If they feel that's it's in their best interest to form a separate association, then I'm sure that's what they'll do. But most of the stuff I've read and heard just sounds like bellyaching and reaching for leverage. (And heck, I like private schools. But if they want to be on their own then certainly, they should do that).

Personally I think the vast majority of the private schools were co existing just fine with the public and other privates. But it got to the point where pretty much all competition was choked out of one class each year leading to some pretty boring football. I've watched the LHSAA struggle for years to come up with a solution to it. Everything they tried failed. This may well fail too. (I think it's much too broad a tool - surgery with a chainsaw or some analogy like that). But looks like they got some attention across classes this time around.

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would not the private be tainted too?

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Not in the same way. Would it be diminished? Sure. But the privates are being forced out by the publics. So from that standpoint, the public school are conceding that they can't compete, so their trophy would be cheapened moreso than the private only trophy.

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Same as for most the games in Lafourche.

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The public schools needing private schools thing is primarily a New Orleans-Baton Rouge thing.

I know inner-city schools in Shreveport and Lake Charles don't draw flies either, but they lean more on suburban public schools like the Bossier City schools or Sulphur to give them big gates and money.

In Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the only CITY options for a home gate are Catholic schools or Parkview, Curtis, etc.

But, as has been pointed out before, New Orleans and Baton Rouge represent a large chunk of the state's population, so those publics losing that money would have a great impact, even if they are not feeling it at South LaFourche or West Monroe.

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With the emergence of travel baseball, has a private school recruited an entire team already?

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one did for basketball and it kinda blew up on them...

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o that's what it amounts to? Kids have been threatening to take their balls and go home if they don't get their way since games were invented.

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basically that's what most of the non selects voted for.... banishing them to two classes.

False. Privates, especially in urban areas, bring in gates much, much larger than the publics. There will be a complete hissy fit of epic proportions if the selects ask to be placed in a "selects-only" district
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i'll agree with that, the urban public schools. however they will never be relevant anyways. most probably shouldn't even exist.

and if they did have good players, they are already committed to some other private school. and not just privates, Monroe pulled James from Wossman, their best player in school history.

but almost every town is going to put butts in the seat no matter what.

It is not the same everywhere believe me

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i get this from the privates: 1) they fund publics from gate money 2) they run better programs 3) develop players 4) the public championships won't count

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Private schools: the sugar daddies of high school football.