re: What is your view on the new LHSAA playoff system?

To put schools that recruit, i.e. private/catholic schools in the same division as the public schools that supposedly can't recruit is just plain stupid. All it accomplishes is that the private schools win more championships.

Case in point, our oldest daughter played high school softball and "ONE" year they had a really good team. They lost to the eventual state champion that was a private school by two runs twice in the playoffs. The private school went on to ten-run everybody else they played. Their headmaster admitted to me that they recruited and had essentially an all-star team. What that did was prevent a public school who played what they had in their district from winning a championship that rarely comes their way.

Putting public/private teams in the playoffs together is just fundamentally chickenshite.