re: Which Louisiana high school has produced the most top level athletes?

Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:07 am to Popths

Posted by LSUfan4444

Member since Mar 2004

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Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:07 am to Popths

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Lots have come from St Charles Parish. Hahnville and Destrehan.

One thing that skews the numbers in and around NOLA / Jeff parish is the Catholic League and of course John Curtis.

The Westbank has done WORK for decades but for a couple decades now alot of those athletes started crossing the river instead of going to Shaw like they did in the 80s and 90s.

St Aug has done so well because it has it's market that won'e be skewed by just results on the field or a bad coaching hire. They've been consistently going after the same kind of kid with the same basic approach to athletic (and academic) development for 50+ years.

Kids deciding between Rummel, Shaw, Jesuit and Brother Martin aren't usually like kids deciding between St Aug and any other school.

St Aug kids are frequently St Aug kids at birth and for life.

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Posted by 777Tiger

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Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:18 am to LSUfan4444

Louisiana is a rich environment for athletes, in my neighborhood a guy down the street from where I grew up is an NFL HoF qb, the qb before him signed with LSU, the one after with Arkansas, his little brother played a couple of years in the NFL, from the same school was Robert Parish, Mike Rose, and Johnny Booty, and those were just qbs(except for Rose and Parish,) lots of other position players played college/pro, other sports too, there was a guy down the street that also played for the Cincinnati Reds, growing up in that environment we just thought that's the way it was everywhere, used to work with Pat Mason, he signed with LSU and ended up playing at SLU, about half of my football team in hs played some level of college football

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