re: Can somebody explain to me this LHSAA thing to me?

Played public many moons ago. Football played mainly publics since district was big and Destrehan and Lutcher were non district rival games. Baseball we always played Rummel, Shaw, Jesuit, and East Jeff outside of district (EJ won state during this time frame). Now at Hahnville they play several catholic league schools in baseball every year; how it should be.

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The publics are better than the privates in Texas

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For the most part. It's because big cities like Allen for example have 5-6 middle schools and only 1 high school.
Public schools in DISD (Dallas) mostly suck at sports (other than Skyline)

The main issue I have is this. Private Schools can maintain their size because they can control their enrollment. A 2A private can maintain its 2A status because it can turn away students. Public Schools don't have that luxury. They have to admit a student that lives in their district. Secondly small rural schools have a hard time competing against these small privates that are located in places like the northshore in sites like hammond, covington,and slidell. The talent pool is far richer in a city than in a small rural community. Lastly. I equate this problem to the problems Travel ball have done to local rec leagues. These parents think their kid is special and to good to play rec and go in search of a travel team. Over time these same parents "stack" a travel team in an effort to dominate the competition. The better talent gets concentrated to one team. Private Schools do the same thing. I know first hand. My son has been "recruited" and we choose to stay at our local public school because it's a great school academically. Private school folks complain about participation trophies. But public schools argument is that privates "stack" their teams in an effort to constantly beat up on the publics and without adhering to a residency zone. Private Schools will continue to bring in talent from neighboring towns, thus making the public schools weaker. Call it what you will but it's an advantage. So if public and private have to abide by 2 different sets of rules I dont see why the privates care about competing with teams that abide by the same rules that all privates do. Let the schools that are forced to adhere to the residency zoning compete against other schools that adhere to that same rule. And same for privates.

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Wossman is public.

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So are we...

They won't have what they do this year. We will. Honestly, I don't think they can beat us this year unless we were to play them in Monroe. That's the only way and since they will win district, they'll probably be the 3 seed instead of 4. Because both our and UHigh districts suck, I see us staying where we are in the power rankings as 1 and 2.

But those are the only 3 teams that can be looked at in the 3A title run this year and Wossman is a distant 3rd, and 1 and 2 are about what and what though.