re: 2026 Louisiana HS Baseball Season

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Again, not from that area so don't know the inside story. you asked for someone and I gave you a kid I knew did that.
On the outside looking in it seemed like recruiting but knowing the inside story now makes sense to me.

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yea in that case anything but recruiting.

but the rule is...if you are going to a private school, you can switch to the public school you are zoned for at anytime and be eligible immediately.

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I wish in AP we didn't have 5-5A schools within a 10 mile radius. Our kids here play together growing up but have to be split for HS. lots of talent going to different schools.

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for sure an issue.

so in LC area....really you have 3 5a schools and 3 3-A schools you would send your kids too if you are white. thats Barbe, Sulphur, SH, Iowa, Westlake, SLC. then you have grandlake and dequincy but in actual lake charles.....really only have 3 choices, move over the parish line and send to grand lake and play little school ball or you pay private for SLC or you send your kid to barbe if you want a public school

in many cases parents may live in sulphur or westlake or out of Barbes zone and they may out of zone starting in middle school or earlier because they want their kid at barbe.

SLC is a better school overall but barbe has one of the best AP and gifted programs in the state. And parents are not going to send their kids to washington marion or lagrange or lake charles college prep, not happening unless you hate your kid.


but yea i dont understand why the AP didnt just build a new huge school and combine all of them. at least they should have done that with EA, STA and Praireville and made one big bad arse school like texas does.

If they were to combine prairieville and St Amant that team would be legit a year or 2 from now. Both have really good your players.
Dutchtown will feel the affects from the new school after this year. They will have probably 8 Sr's in the starting lineup. Top 4 pitchers are Srs....going to be rebuilding for sure but not much talent in the younger classes so going to be a struggle for a while.

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On the Lake Charles area , everyone gets on Barbe for recruiting (they do). But Sam is recruiting just as hard , several of those 28 kids are not from their area.

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barbe isnt really recruiting but yea sam is. 2 kids from jennings that still live in jennings. multiple kids from south lake charles going there over barbe because of some stupid class they have that allows them to go. Lacassines best player suddenly moved in.

barbe has had people move in. Zaylon moved in starting 7th grade or maybe 6th. the Talon Sweat kid moved in from texas over the summer randomly, Im pretty sure his dad got trasnferred in as they were in a good school in texas. Littleton literally moved from sulphur to LC. Thats going to happen, people move for school districts all the time.

What you dont see is usually is barbe taking kids from other high schools. The SLC kid mentioned...he lived in Barbes Zone for 10+ years and left SLC for other reasons and you dont transfer from playing middle infield to go be the right fielder at Barbe . But Barbe never really takes kids from other high schools. I think there was a live oak kid that moved last year or something but someone on here said something like the dad and coach got into it or something like that.

You have a lot of kids that decide in 6th or 7th that they want to go to Barbe and they out of zone for middle school.

and i dont even care about sam houston. Happy those kids arent wasting away not being developed and they get to play with the freinds they grew up playing with. Aint like sam houston is saying...hey come here and we have a 500k house waiting on you. All they are offering is a chance to compete. same with west monroe, barbe etc. Even the catholic schools....even if they give a scholarship, they are just evening the playing field.

if people dont want kids to leave their schools, provide a better product. get the community to invest in facilities, get better coaches, pay for the education for the coach, pay for a complete weightroom and things like driveline programming. pay for hit trax and trackman to be installed. pay for indoor facilities etc

i dunno, im just of the opinion of....how about we dont let the state and random strangers deciding what is best for each family.

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Or maybe he coached some of those kids....

about good bit of kids referenced in this thread were coach by me or my son.

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well according to this thread you must be a weirdo too and thats red flags for you knowing them. how dare you......


at least according to a bunch of MSB fricks who dont have kids

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i do find it funny they are calling me weird yet we have national rankings by perfect game for the 2030 class. but how dare i mention who the good kids are in the 2031 class....red flags

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Agreed.

From 9-13 we always went to the super NITs in Houston, Southaven, etc…

Fun to watch and see some of these kids… really puts in perspective what level your team/kid/etc is…. There are some freaks out their!

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yea when you got 12 year olds walking on the mound and pumping 82-85 from 50'.....yea puts things in perspective quickly the houston 1000, southaven, beast of the east , wwba, etc are different levels for sure. Love playing in those.

Really those tournaments at 13u majors is really about like most HS JV. and 14u majors in the big tournaments like that is really like varsity baseball outside the best of the best.


and i mean to the ones making fun of me, calling me weird...they do realize that the 2031 kids are attending PBR showcases starting this year right? They are 13 and no longer considered youth baseball.

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I wish in AP we didn't have 5-5A schools within a 10 mile radius. Our kids here play together growing up but have to be split for HS. lots of talent going to different schools.

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I've always wondered why more systems did not combine resources and build one giant school more like the Texas HS model. The river makes that tougher to do in certain places, but for East AP it would be easy to have two very large HS's. I'll assume D'Ville would remain on the west bank.

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Reading how people think it is weird to know about other good kids around the state is laughable

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yea you can tell they never had kids that played or they only play on local travel teams that dont play teams from all over.

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If your kid plays any type of competitive sport, you are going to know who are the studs and who are on the verge of being a really good ball player if you just go to your kids games. Also, if your kid does lessons, they tell you about all the good kids that come through the gym.

It is actually exciting to see the group of kids my son played with over the years now starting their post-high school baseball careers in college. Some have gone the D-1 football route (Blaine Bradford and Bryson Martinez), some have gone to D-1 schools, some that you thought would be D-1 locks are actually playing JUCO, D-2 or D-3. I personally still follow the kids that are still in high school that have the most potential for the next level. The youngest are Sophomores this year. So in about 3 years, I will probably never worry about competitive baseball again.

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exactly. and i have become friends with a lot of the parents. like i mentioned, if you go play out of state at the big tournaments you hang out with those same parents because your kid is playing with them. at the top level almost all the parents know each other at least enough to shake hands and know the kids names. and as they get older you see them more and more and the circle kind of gets smaller as kids are weeded out.


the dumbasses act like im up there at the baseball fields with no kids playing stalking 5 and 6 year olds. they dont even realize that 2030 kids have national rankings out already(14u- 8th graders) and that the 2031 kids (13u-7th graders) started PBR showcases this spring and have the big national showcase this summer before the national rankings come out next year. the really good kids are trying to position themselves to get picked for the junior future games and other post season tournaments that put them on the radar to make the national HS teams that develop and pump out D1 prospects year after year.

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the dumbasses act like im up there at the baseball fields with no kids playing stalking 5 and 6 year olds.

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You've went through way too much effort to justify your discussions.

Those that made you feel obligated to do that are not worth the effort and honestly won't understand. It's better when you narrow it down and dismiss the ignorance.

It's like dudes that go into a thread about deals at garage sales so they can tell people they buy junk. Mental masturbation.

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they dont even realize that 2030 kids have national rankings out already(14u- 8th graders) and that the 2031 kids (13u-7th graders) started PBR showcases this spring and have the big national showcase this summer before the national rankings come out next year. the really good kids are trying to position themselves to get picked for the junior future games

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To be fair, a lot of this is a money grab and is kind of irrelevant in the big picture. A lot of the best players in those age groups are early bloomers and turn out to be average players in high school, and the opposite is true for the late bloomers.

I agree that it's fun to track players as they grow up, but I find there are generally more surprises than sure bets.

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To be fair, a lot of this is a money grab and is kind of irrelevant in the big picture

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can be, but you understand that they get recruited in 3 seasons after that, 14/15/&16. and you do those things to try and get in certain tournaments like futures or on teams that play things like the elite, wwba, npi etc so you can get in front of scouts as most kids will not be getting scouted at there HS games and if they do will mainly only be local schools.

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A lot of the best players in those age groups are early bloomers and turn out to be average players in high school, and the opposite is true for the late bloomers.

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this is not really true and some myth that continue to exist. all you have to do is go look at the select fest going back the first year which was Dylan Crews 14u year and look and see how many of those went big time D1.

usually the best 12u kid is the best 16u kid in the state. not always but usually or they atleast remain towards the top.

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I agree that it's fun to track players as they grow up, but I find there are generally more surprises than sure bets.

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agree...alot of that is due to differences in personality and work ethic and what they value.