re: Can someone explain to me the LHSAA split?

Excellent post RedPop

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According to people who seem to know things, the privates and their supporters are already sick of the situation, they are not even an effective minority in the LHSAA. The publics call all the shots, and there are not enough private schools to really affect the vote.

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100% true, and the publics know it which further divides them the way they treat "privates".

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Additionally, however, it seems that there is no resolve or consensus among the privates that would even facilitate their leaving the LHSAA,

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There is a consensus on how they would do it, and it would be ugly and brutal. But again you are correct there is not enough resolve because honestly the optics would be terrible especially right now.

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but any threat to leave? They can't get together and agree to basic, common ideas.

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Like I said I do not think there is any threat right now, but once all sports split and the time frame of about 5-7 years I could see a major threat and it coming from my next point from community schools.

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Many of the privates simply do not want to be the ones to "destroy" the LHSAA, either, or so it seems.

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Yep, I think the split will happen when what I call "community schools" that are publics choose to go select because they know it is better for their schools and their athletes. When the privates can get enough of these types to side with them fully the big split will happen. Another issue is that apparently only per state association is recognized, like was under the MHSAA/MAIS way, there was never a "split" it has always just been this way since segregation. So like the optics this could be very bad and the state would have to step in, which would make it worse because you then have the brain trust that is the state legislature trying to work together.

Basically private schools had an advantage over public schools because anyone could go to their schools out of their zone. For example: here in BR, Parkview Baptist can go and put a billboard in the ghetto in North BR with the billboard saying things like come to Parkview, great education, great athletics, great opportunities to be looked at by College coaches and things like that. It will attract talented athletes to leave the poor, ghetto public schools and go to a successful private school where they have a better chance at being able to succeed in life because of their athletic abilities. They have an opportunity to improve their lives by getting out of the ghetto.

We probably would have never heard of Derius Guice if he didn’t end up transferring to Catholic instead of staying at McKinley. For one, not many college scouts want to go to a game at McKinkey High School and two he would have probably ended up, like a bunch of students who go to McKinley their entire lives, living the street and thug life and would probably be in jail or possibly even dead.

Basically the private schools could advertise for people to come to their schools which is called “recruiting” and the public schools couldn’t do that. They just had to rely on the kids that lived in their zones as the future of that schools athletic programs. The public schools just felt like they were at a disadvantage and that it wasn’t fair that they had to compete with private schools once the postseason came around.

Now, there are public schools in Louisiana that recruit and recruit quite often and get away with it. Most of the top dog public football programs in this state recruit. I may be wrong but I think the majority of the people who voted for the split were smaller public schools who did things the right way and didn’t recruit. They just don’t have good athletes that live in their zones so it was hard for them to have successful athletic programs when they competed against teams who could basically go out and get whoever they wanted.

Now I’m a public school guy, grew up in one of the best public schools in Louisiana but I am very against the split. I think the split sucks and they need to bring things back to the way they use to be.

It’s the worst. The only thing worse is the Archdiocese of New Orleans not letting the private schools pull out and start their own association.

Start a new association, then start inviting public schools. Leave Many and Winfield in the LHSAA so they can play each other for a championship every year.

Top 10 in 5A without the split:
1. West Monroe
2. John Curtis
3. Destrehan
4. Catholic
5. Acadiana
6. Rummel
7. Ehret
8. East Ascension
9. Zachary
10. Terrebonne

Nice top 10 there. Instead of that, the 3 select schools in the top 10 play in a 12 team bracket against people they already play. Boy is that fun

Why does Rummel, HC, Bro Mart, Jesuit, Shaw, Aug, Catholic, Byrd, Scotlandville, St. Paul, and McKinley have to suffer?

They’re legitimate schools, not factories. They get stuck with shitty postseason play because of Evangel and Curtis. None of the above mentioned schools are like Evangel and Curtis

I do not think you get how a "private" school operates

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people were moving into their zones to put their kid in said recruited school

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Stop being shitty schools then.

I don’t see Northshore schools not in Slidell losing many kids. Those are good schools. Enough to where a parent doesn’t say frick that, I’d rather pay 10k a year so my child isn’t sent to a dogshit school.

Principle led the charge

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Friends of mine were telling me for years how they control enrollment to match the lesd dominant class and would drop or rise on it.

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fairly easy to do between 1A and 2A... The cutoff has been in the same general area for years

It was 57-0.