re: New to Louisiana High school football

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If anybody is interested in giving me a rundown on LHSAA football it'd be appreciated.

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Basically, in short, the LHSAA was founded in 1916. North Louisiana public schools quickly found a way to stretch the limits of the rules and won many early championships. South Louisiana, which is Catholic instead of Baptist, had some private Catholic schools that eventually started beating the North Louisiana schools, evening things out and leading to some public vs. private school tensions. Next, John Curtis Christian School and Evangel Christian Academy, two non-denomintional Christian schools, then tipped the scales in the private schools' favor and were essentially accused of setting up college-mill programs with alleged recruiting-like tactics, pseudo-athletic scholarships, etc. The public school majority recently basically retaliated and just voted a whole new set of playoffs for the private schools to compete in, so there are now 9 state champions instead of 5. Everyone gets a trophy, etc. [/thread]