Ron Brocato- NOLA Catholic school principals are against leaving the LHSAA

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There have been grumblings of a mutiny by principals of select schools to leave the LHSAA and form a new association. And although that occurrence would have public school principals from around the state high-fiving each other, there is no logistical plan to make this knee-jerk response work. And Catholic school principals from the New Orleans area are dead set against leaving the LHSAA.

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they're the ones who can go on the best away from crappy public schools...

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The second possible strategy Henderson asked the School Relation Committee to study a plan that would increase a school's enrollment by using a multiplier based on, but not limited to, the number of students below the ninth grade, out of zone athletes, out of parish athletes and financial aid. The multiplier would affect all schools equally and every school, regardless of whether it is considered a "select" or "non-select," would pass through the same filter.

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this is the best option to me... it can help avoid any more of a split than we currently have

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The high school football state finals have been predictable for decades. And because the same teams win most of the five classes every year, the state championship games have simply become a coronation ceremony.

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well yeah, don't you want the best teams winning?

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I have nothing against West Monroe, Neville, Notre Dame, Karr, John Curtis, Evangel or Ouachita Christian They have built great football programs over time. They have made themselves into dynasties. But the general public is tired of seeing the same teams win, year after year.

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he puts Karr in this category with their one title in 20 years... if teams were that unhappy with dominance, they'd beat those teams at the top. i would think more schools would want to emulate the programs at the top schools. large public, small public, small private, large private, there are success stories at all types of schools.

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He suggested three strategies to consider. One, which copies the newly-adopted Indiaia High School Athletic Association's Team Sports Reclassification – Tournament Success Factor, appears to be the most workable of the three. However, I believe it would need to be tweaked to properly accommodate Louisiana high school sports. Under the plan, schools are subject to reclassification on a sport-by-sport basis, dependent on the school's tournament series success during the previous reclassification period. A school earns assigned point values for the final level of the tournament (or playoff) series the school achieves during the previous classification period as follows: 1 point for a Sectional championship, 2 points for a Regional championship, 3 points for a Semifinal round win and 4 points for a state championship in its class. If a school in any enrollment class (below the highest class) achieves a series success point value of six (6) points or greater in a specific sport during the previous reclassification period, such school shall move up to the next available larger enrollment class for the next reclassification period. The rule, which can be downloaded here includes five other variables. A similar plan would be functional in Louisiana. But under its five-round playoff system, points values would increase from 1 for a Bi-district playoff win to 5 for a state championship victory. The total point value for a school to be moved to a higher class would increase to 7. For instance, if School A makes it through three rounds of playoff competition in its first reclassification year, then wins a state championship in its second, that school would accrue 3-plus-5 points for a total of 8 and would move up in class for the next two years. Of course schools in Class 5A could not move up. I would like to amend this further by moving a school whose team (in any sport) continues to score more than 7 playoff value points over consecutive reclassification periods continue to move up (in that sport) to an even higher class.

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it's the Chalmette in me talking but what about moving schools down who have no success?