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

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How would you qualify this?

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In Tennessee, schools that gave need-based financial aid were separated from the rest of their association, much like the proposed split here.

I think that would be your criteria and maybe a second criteria would be merit-based scholarships past a certain percentage of your school enrollment.

Basically, if you are a metro school with a large percentage of your students receiving need-based financial aid, then you get a huge bump in class and might be a school with 400-500 students playing 4A or 5A, if I were calling the shots. If you are a rural private that gives no need-based financial aid, you'd stand a good chance at staying in your same class.

Big difference between an urban private school that gives financial aid and is surrounded by 500k people within a reasonable commute and a rural school with maybe 30k or fewer people within 20-30 miles that gives no, or little, need-based aid (like a Sacred Heart-VP, for example).

The biggest goal I'd have would be getting the 2A and 1A metro privates out of the same class as your rural public schools. U-High can almost accidentally recruit talent that Winnfield can never accumulate at their school. All it takes is for a football version of Collis to have a stud kid with a couple of buddies. Add in an LSU coach's kid that can play and just like that you've got 4-5 kids who are once-in-a-generation player at most 2A schools.

That really isn't fair.

That's why the approach should be to factor in the urban population of the school and mix it in with how widespread financial aid is and whether that aid is based on merit or need.

The goal would be to get your urban schools all in the higher classes except in rare cases where an urban private is small and gives no financial aid or, at least, no need-based aid.

What if the school gives only merit-based aid? Then there should still be a multiplier, but only a slight one, I'd say.