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

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Right, my point was simply there are more kids on ND team from cp...than he realized. But they would be at nd anyway

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Yeah, I figured you got it. But the argument about "out-of-zone" private school kids gets harped on a lot, but it's a BS argument, so I just felt compelled to post against the rubbish.

Let me give an example.

St. Louis Catholic is in the Washington-Marion district, but it's 4 blocks from the LaGrange/W-M district boundary and 3-4 miles from Washington-Marion...so you mean to tell me the kid that walks to school to St. Louis from 5 blocks away in the LaGrange zone is "recruited" from outside their "zone?" But the kid who takes a bus from next door to Washington-Marion to go to SL is OK because he's "in district?"

That's a bogus argument.

To me, it's less ethical if a kid who lives across the street from St. Louis, but attends public school his whole life, decides to go to St. Louis for high school strictly because he's a good athlete. The kid that busses across town to go to a private school because he's been going to Catholic schools his whole life should not offend a soul.

Yeah, Notre Dame has players from Church Point and Rayne. So what?

Just has to be said.