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

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Remember how you said public schools can't do the things that private schools do with their player development systems? As this story illustrates, that's utter nonsense:

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The issue is, a lot of public schools don't want to invest (and not necessarily monetarily) in what it takes to be good at something. They want mediocre effort to be rewarded in the same way excellence is rewarded.

It's not just football or athletics, it's everything a lot of our public schools do. The emphasis is doing enough to meet a minimal standard, as opposed to thriving to be the best.

But at schools that "get it," public or private, excellence is achieved. It just so happens that, in a lot of cases, people who are interested in achieving excellence has found they need to achieve it at a private school because the local public schools systemically don't allow it to happen.

In terms of football, you have to have enough coaches. You have to have multiple sub-varsity teams that are getting quality reps at practice and quality game time. You have to have more than one or two coaches at the middle schools and the middle schoolers need to be learning the game in a way where it's not being taught at a remedial level during freshman football. You have to have facilities.

Etc., etc.

And the public schools are perfectly capable of having all this. Many don't and instead they blame the private schools for having it.

The problem is, Winnfield can do all this but still not win because EBR schools can't get their act together, so anybody in BR who has ambition for their kids' athletic future will probably send their kids to private school, most of which play in 1A, 2A or 3A against mostly small town, public schools.

That's the only part that isn't fair in this whole deal.

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