Another LHSAA vote coming Wednesday

I disagree, there are fixes if they would be willing to work together to find a solution. Unfortunately we have too many principals/coaches who only want whats best for them and/or an easy state title and trip to the Dome.

Combine that with a horrible Commissioner and you get they dysfunctional association we have now.

I personally like the plan where you add a multiplier for schools where more than a certain percentage of students are from outside of the attendance zone.

actually - there will likely not be a quorum therefore what was voted on in Jan will stand..

if by some chance there is a quorum - any vote to change anything will be vociferously challenged.

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Unfortunately we have too many principals/coaches who only want whats best for them and/or an easy state title and trip to the Dome.

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If you don't look out for your own interests, nobody else will. They are representing who they are supposed to represent.

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If you don't look out for your own interests, nobody else will. They are representing who they are supposed to represent.

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I wish our politicians did this also.

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Combine that with a horrible Commissioner and you get they dysfunctional association we have now.

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I am pretty sure this acrimony predates Eddie Bonine's hiring.

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I personally like the plan where you add a multiplier for schools where more than a certain percentage of students are from outside of the attendance zone.

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I think there is a multi-part solution here.

1) Combine to, at most, 5 classes for all sports. 2A-5A play football, 1A does not. Get rid of the different setups for volleyball, soccer, etc.

2) Allow any school that wants to play up, to do so, but they must do so in all sports.

3) Remove all freshman eligibility restrictions. All freshmen are eligible to play immediately.

4) Have a hard ban on all transfers to schools within 50 miles that occur starting with the second day of freshman year. You transfer schools, you sit out for 12 months. No exceptions.

5) Private co-ed schools have a 2x multiplier. Private single-sex schools have a 3x multiplier. Public schools that are not open admission have a 1.5x multiplier.

6) Annual dues will increase by $1,000 per school per year, with all money used to pay for investigators and investigative costs of cheating.

7) If the cheating is intentional, the school is suspended immediately from all sports, until they repay 100 percent of the costs of the investigation, and agree to a 1-season postseason ban for the sports involved.

I was thinking that choupiquesushi, but there is simply too much at stake... private and catholic schools know this is the last chance for them, and split schools will show up to defend the split they fought so hard for...

Now it being in BR on a weekday, advantage select schools.

problem with investigations is that the LHSAA only takes complaints from principals who despite their rhetoric rarely turn in their counterparts...


I believe the only 3 schools sanctioned for recruiting in the past 25 years - all turned THEMSELVES IN.......


and they need to make the rules apply to over zealous parents and those associated with a program accountable.... hard but that's really where the work gets done - by those recruiting... and for the millionth time systematic hold backs is way more effective than recruiting.

5 of the last 7 football POYs have been hold backs....

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Sponrships being dropped, host sites saying they can't accommodate the increased amount of championships, etc. If you support this split, you basically just want to see the privates leave.

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I think everyone realizes that those sponsors would jump at the private school league if it formed. The publics are only damaging themselves for the sake of a few extra titles under the pretense that they don't have the means to compete with the privates. Go check out some of the threads on sportsline, tons of public school folks admitting that they have special ways to get kids into the school, so it isn't a private issue, it's a scapegoat issue.