re: Can someone explain to me the LHSAA split?

Many of the private schools in greater New Orleans have declining enrollment, but in the metro area, the attendance numbers for football absolutely favor the privates. I live near East Jefferson Stadium, and can anecdotally tell you, that there are not many folks at many football games except when Archbishop Rummel plays against one of their larger Catholic League rivals.

The trend in the rest of the state is the opposite, or so I have read on this board, the publics around the rest of the state outdraw the privates.

According to people who seem to know things, the privates and their supporters are already sick of the situation, they are not even an effective minority in the LHSAA. The publics call all the shots, and there are not enough private schools to really affect the vote.

Additionally, however, it seems that there is no resolve or consensus among the privates that would even facilitate their leaving the LHSAA, and they disagree on too many issues to even convincingly threaten to leave. Of course the LHSAA wants their metro New Orleans and Baton Rouge attendance monies, but any threat to leave? They can't get together and agree to basic, common ideas.

Many of the privates simply do not want to be the ones to "destroy" the LHSAA, either, or so it seems. Many still think that they can put Humpty Dumpty back together again if they say the right words, promote ideas that would alleviate tensions or what-have-you. The publics just vote down most proposals IF the executive commettee even allows them onto the meeting agenda for discussion and voting.