Baton Rouge area HS football

Every announcement I have seen is that games with teams from AP, LP, the North Shore, the River Parishes, the Bayou Parishes, and the New Orleans area is canceled. Some of the BR schools are looking for new opponents to try to still play a game.

Uhigh playing at Central now since Rummel can't play.

I’m chilling in Destin, no LHSAA thread until I get home

Here are the games canceled this week

COVID Related
Jena/Rayville (RHS forfeits)
Basile/Lake Arthur (BHS forfeits)
Broadmoor/Covington (BHS forfeits)
Sacred Heart/Ville Platte (VPHS forfeits)
Port Barre/Church Point (PBHS forfeits)

Hurricane Related
Madison Prep/Karr
University/Rummel
Jesuit/Woodlawn-BR
STM/Brother Martin
Denham Springs/Mandeville
White Castle/Southern Lab
Gueydan/Thrive Academy
Highland Baptist/Houma Christian
Ascension Episcopal/South Lafourche
Glen Oaks/Grace King
Tara/Hammond
Mamou/Covenant Christian
Thibodaux/Lutcher
Vandebilt Catholic/E.D. White
John Curtis/Central Lafourche
Hamilton Christian/St. Thomas Aquinas
Episcopal/St. Michael
Central-BR/Mentorship Academy
Lake Charles Prep/Plaquemine
Zachary/East Ascension
East Feliciana/West Feliciana
North Central/Belaire
Albany/Independence
St. Paul's/L.B. Landry
Ascension Catholic/Sci Academy
Salmen/Amite
Destrehan/Bonnabel
St. Amant/G.W. Carver
Livingston/East Jefferson
Eleanor McMain/Frederick Douglass
North Pike (MS)/De La Salle
Sophie B. Wright/Collegiate BR
Jefferson Rise/Cohen
Lakeshore/Fontainebleau
Springfield/Haynes Academy
John F. Kennedy/L.W. Higgins
West Jefferson/Holy Cross
Kentwood/Istrouma
St. Helena/Jewel Sumner
East St. John/John Ehret
Loranger/Live Oak
Newman/Lusher Charter
Franklin/MLK
Berwick/Morgan City
Country Day/Northlake Christian
Dutchtown/Northshore
West St. Mary/Patterson
Pearl River/Pope John Paul II
Kenner Discovery/Riverdale
Northeast/Rosenwald
Belle Chasse/South Plaquemines
McDonogh 35/St. Augustine
Archbishop Shaw/St. Charles
Terrebonne/St. James
Ben Franklin/St. Martin's
Riverside Academy/Thomas Jefferson
Ponchatoula/Walker
Navarre (FL)/Warren Easton
Hahnville/West St. John
Chalmette/Archbishop Hannan

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Rosenwald

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A new school in Algiers

Brusly at Port Allen

Hanson Memorial at St. John (Green Devil Stadium – Plaquemine High)

University Lab at Central

Dunham and Parkview will play but not at Parkview as scheduled.

Zachary at West Feliciana

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I’m interested to see what St Amant does.

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Because they can't attend school in Ascension this week there won't be in games involving AP teams.
St. Amant's non-district schedule is a head scratcher. They've got a veteran coach with tremendous numbers yet they play a putrid schedule, almost like rent-a-wins to have as many home games at The Pit rather than travel and play somebody like they did in year's past with Lutcher. That was a good series.

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They've got a veteran coach with tremendous numbers yet they play a putrid schedule, almost like rent-a-wins to have as many home games at The Pit

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They charged $96 for a season ticket for 8 home games… $12 a game. If I was their fan I’d be pissed

Chalmette charged $32 for 5 home games (well now 4)

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when and where?

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If Parkview gets power at PBS, Friday at 7; If no power, at PBS, Saturday morning at 9.

STM will host Madison Prep on Friday.

I hate that they stopped scheduling Lutcher. I think St Amant and Lutcher should play every single year. It’s always one of the better football games in the area every single year. I loved that we brought the rivalry back while I was in high school but I hate that they took it away again.

That’s always been how Oliver schedules. Like I understand whenever he first got here, he took over a program who had back to back 0-10 or 1-9 seasons I believe. So in order to build the program up, you gotta win a lot of games on paper. Once 2013 hit, they should have started scheduling tougher non district games but they kept the same non district formula as before, rent a wind, except they added Lutcher to the rotation. What sucked about the rent a wins is, we did that with Warren Easton 4 seasons in a row, from 2011-2014, and we never beat them once. The 2012 game got canceled because of Isaac, but we paid those guys every single year to come to our place, so we wouldn’t have to go over there, and they’d beat us every time.

If it were up to me, I’d have one rent a win game, and that’s your homecoming game, Lutcher every year, rotate between one of the 3 big river parish schools every 2 years, a 4-5A school not in LP, and an LP school. I know there’s more to it then just that but I think we need to play bigger games, especially if we want the program to get to the next level. It’s like we can’t ever get past a certain point as a program.

This year, we would have had 8 home games at The Pit, and 7 next year, and all of them minus the district games, are rent a wins. Now, a big reason for that could be because some videoboard company, leased out one of their videoboards for us to use for the next 5 years, at a very discounted price or something like that. Part of the deal is that we have to show a certain number of sponsors that the videoboard company wants shown over the next 5 years, so they may have scheduled like that so that they can get all of their sponsors in on the videoboard during the season.

Now, a lot of what I just said is speculation, but I do know we made some deal with a videoboard company in order to get one at a discounted price. I don’t know all of the details with the videoboard, and I don’t really understand how APSB allowed St Amant to get one, whenever the other 3 public schools aren’t getting one. APSB has always been about all of the 4 public schools having the same exact resources as each other. Glenn Dorsey tried to pay for EA to get turf several years back, and the school board shot it down, because the other 3 schools wouldn’t have had turf, and it would have been an “advantage” to EA. No one is supposed to have an advantage in resources and facilities. All the other stuff I said is just my opinion on maybe why the schedule is the way it is. We usually have an average non district schedule, but whenever our schedule came out for this season, I was very disappointed because that’s as weak of a schedule that I’ve ever seen from us.

I’m sure there are some St Amant people on here who have a lot better connections then I do, and maybe they can fill in on the videoboard thing, and if that has anything to do with the weak schedule.