re: Rank Louisiana Cities - Recruiting

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River Parishes- Laplace, Reserve, Donaldsonville, Houma, Thibodaux

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RIVER PARISHES are:
St Charles: Hahnville / Destrehan
St John: East & West St John / St Charles Catholic / Riverside
St James: St James / Lutcher

Houma and Thibodaux are BAYOU PARISHES. And Donaldsonville while on the river AND the bayou doesn’t really fit in either of those groups.

The Alexandria area may not produce much football talent , but the Peabody warriors basketball team has won their class repeatedly, putting tons of kids on college basketball scholarships. LSU is not a favorite team apparently to the coach , but they have a helluva record. Also Aaron Epps played in the same district as Peabody. i bet they have won their class championship 20 times in the last 25 years.

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The Alexandria area may not produce much football talent , but the Peabody warriors basketball team has won their class repeatedly, putting tons of kids on college basketball scholarships. LSU is not a favorite team apparently to the coach , but they have a helluva record. Also Aaron Epps played in the same district as Peabody. i bet they have won their class championship 20 times in the last 25 years.

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Warhorses, but yea, Alexandria is full of a lot of athletic talent, just don't the same looks as the big cities.

Peabody has put out basketball talent for years, and it's not the Coach Smith doesn't like LSU. LSU does not recruit LSU kids like they actually want them. That was the case with Markel Brown, who ended up at Oklahoma St. Marcus Simmons got more looks from Brady than Markel ever did really did. But just this year, Peabody and ASH won 4A and 5A respectively in basketball.

But also the few kids Alexandria does put out in football, LSU really don't push for. Just a few: Nic Harris, Chris Brown-ASH, both went to Oklahoma, Blair Phillips-Bolton went to Oregon, Jalen Richard-Peabody ended up at Southern Miss, everybody fell off of him when he got hurt his Senior Year, but he is currently playing for the Raiders, Shaan Washington-Texas A&M. They did get Guillory this year. Again, not the overwhelming amounts of talent that come out of the other areas, but they should get more kids than they do in several sports from that area.

Sadly, its not just LSU though. The real failure is on the instate FCS and lower schools that should maximize on the overwhelming amount of talent for their levels in that area, that hardly come up there.

lot of lazy, corrupt White people in st Tammany.

Fify

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CENLA may be the state's least successful areas when it comes to its teams' lack of success in the state playoffs.
This includes the immediate Alexandria area, not Winnfield and Leesville.

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True but doesn't mean there aren't players. We always have dynamic skill players, but the problem is skilled lineman of size. As a whole, its a weak spot for the area. There is one here and there like Guillory, Cody Ford but its hard to compete when you cant slug it out in the trenches. Between that and the fact the talent us spread too thin at too many schools, especially in the Alexandria metro. Its gonna always be that way.