re: LHSAA Preseason polls and week 1... Games start tonight

Would you care if/when a St Amant kid decides to go to Catholic and he doesn’t play football or any sport? Or is it just limited to sports? I’m genuinely interested in your thoughts here because we’ve had this conversation on here many times.

I was referring to your response to this, saying it was hogwash:

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This is the argument I hear from people that are against giving children the opportunity to go to the best possible high school via state vouchers and the like.

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LSU316 says he feels it is mostly driven by sports. Meaning, you’re only against giving kids opportunities to go to schools outside of their zone if they play sports.

I was seeing if you had an argument to that, or if it was just hogwash.

I’m past split vs non-split. It is what it is. If your school currently isn’t competing against select schools in playoffs and it’s not going to change, do you still care when catholic pulls a football kid from St Amant?

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LSU316 says he feels it is mostly driven by sports. Meaning, you’re only against giving kids opportunities to go to schools outside of their zone if they play sports.

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I’ll give it to y’all, yes, me and everyone else in this state cares more about sports, than academics or integrity, and creating productive members of society. It’s well known that football means more than almost anything else down here. We certainly have our priorities wrong down here. But when sports is the one area where people take advantage of being able to recruit for academic purposes, then yes, it should apply only to people who play sports. Or there should be tougher restrictions to being able to go wherever you want. I don’t want to take away vouchers and stuff like that.

The argument is hogwash though because you guys are wanting to say that I don’t care about academics, and that the people pushing for the split are motivated by sports and sports alone. When in reality, it’s the select schools who are motivated by sports, and use academics as an excuse to be able to go outside their communities, parishes, zones, and whatever else just to win some games. And at the same time, cry about how wrong the non selects are, for not wanting to compete for championships against selects. It’s hypocritical and wrong, and until selects admit that to themselves, the split will remain. And btw, I am also against the Dutchtown’s, West Monroe’s, Barbe’s, and Many’s of the state, who do the same thing, or have a history of doing it.

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I’m past split vs non-split. It is what it is. If your school currently isn’t competing against select schools in playoffs and it’s not going to change, do you still care when catholic pulls a football kid from St Amant?

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Not as much, because they can’t compete for the same things that we compete for anymore, but it’s still unethical to do the things that Gabe Fertitta was doing under his watch. It challenges the integrity of the schools, state, sport, and the LHSAA. I think there should be tougher rules for being able to go to private schools outside your zone, or especially outside the parish you reside in, especially for sports. It sucks but thanks to the Gabe Fertitta’s of the state, you gotta do what’s gotta be done.

Ok your first two paragraphs…agree to disagree. Onward.

But tell me more about this unethical behavior. You don’t know as much as you think you know. If it was so unethical how Gabe ran his program, how were zero players ruled ineligible and there was no postseason ban or anything like that? As much as you’d like to think “well it’s because it’s catholic high”, I can assure you that’s not how it worked.

The LHSAA had near nothing and It may surprise you but Eddie Bonine hates catholic high. It’s amazing how nothing has come out after the “penalty” was imposed.

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West Monroe have facilities and staffs that rival the best privates in the state

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what private has facilities like that?

So, if the split holds, the new alignment places 52 teams in division II. It says only 16 teams will make the playoffs with exception of div IV..
Think this stays in place too?

West Monroe 17
Sterlington 7 half

21 to 7 Chalmette leads Hannan at the half

CHS and GC both scored quickly on their opening drives. 7-7 midway through Q1