re: Catholic High sanctioned by LHSAA for recruiting

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Do people not understand this? It’s not hard.

It’s necessary because it allows all high schools to compete on a level field and it holds the entire “high school athletics” thing together.

What you are talking about is college recruiting essentially.

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There isn’t a level playing field to begin with. School districts aren’t the same size to begin with. If you’re in an overcrowded school with shitty facilities, you have to go there?

Gtfo. There are probably hundreds of kids who could’ve gotten scholarships at the next level had they played for better programs in the last 5 years. Extrapolate that for the last 35 when private schools really made a football push. (Like when Catholic hired Weiner).
And that’s just in the BR metro area.

I don’t give a frick about the LHSAA, kids reaching their max at any school that can help them is a more noble cause.

But it’s fine to disagree. Some people like the government to dictate people’s lives for them.

That just isn’t in me.

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There are probably hundreds of kids who could’ve gotten scholarships at the next level had they played for better programs in the last 5 years

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If a kid has the measurables - the guys that need to find them for the next level - FIND them it's that simple. THey could care less if they are at Catholic or podunk high.

Even more so now with all of the 7/7, skills camps and widely shared hudl and other video sources.

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I don’t give a frick about the LHSAA, kids reaching their max at any school that can help them is a more noble cause.

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Yeah no shite Sherlock.
And I’d like to end world hunger and have world peace and have every orphan in the world adopted.

It doesn’t change the fact that you have to have structure or the whole thing collapses into chaos where the schools with money and funding get to dictate to everyone else and the little schools get completely left behind.

This isn’t JUST about your coveted star athletes you seem to slobber on about.

It also includes the TENS OF THOUSANDS of other athletes in LA that will never play past high school who are absolutely necessary for the entire thing to exist.

Let’s just let those kids get their heads beat in by the super recruit teams every year. I mean who gives a shite about them? WE HAVE TO HELP MY QB REACH HIS MAX!! it’s a noble cause people.
This is exactly why every pro league in the US has a draft.
Parity is essential or it’s all farce and it falls apart.

You either play within the rules or take your ball and go start your own association. That’s an option. Why does it gain no traction?

Because it would go over about as well as all those soccer teams trying to form a Super League. That’s why.

This isn’t about government. You can go do whatever you want. Don’t forget. All these schools signed up to this voluntarily.

Btw. To be fair I am not against professional leagues running academies for kids. It’s what they do in Europe for soccer.

But if you are gonna have high school sports funnel to college, you have to have rules or it falls apart.

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It also includes the TENS OF THOUSANDS of other athletes in LA that will never play past high school who are absolutely necessary for the entire thing to exist.

Let’s just let those kids get their heads beat in by the super recruit teams every year. I mean who gives a shite about them? WE HAVE TO HELP MY QB REACH HIS MAX!! it’s a noble cause people.
This is exactly why every pro league in the US has a draft.
Parity is essential or it’s all farce and it falls apart.

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this is a lot of well meaning bullshite

the "fairness" issue isn't illegal recruiting in Louisiana, it is the disparity between rural vs urban education.

Specifically most of the population is concentrated in the urban areas and city schools with smaller enrollments are most likely private schools that pull from dense areas. As long as the urban areas have shitty public schools this will continue to be the case.

Most of the parishes in the rural areas have smaller community schools with their traditional attendance zones where kids go to the town school.

there has not been "parity" in LHSAA athletics since the public school systems in the urban centers started going to shite in the 80s.

Pushing JCCS and Evangel into 2A was the death blow to the old guard of the LHSAA and gave the wokaristas the evidence they needed to blow up the Association for "fairness."

splitting the playoffs may have given more rural teams opportunities to win hollow championships but it doesn't solve the "parity" issue you are talking about.

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Take your ball and go form your association.

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It would work in South LA.

The problem is for them, the LHSAA has enough of a critical mass of public schools that no one would really miss them.

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It would work in South LA.

The problem is for them, the LHSAA has enough of a critical mass of public schools that no one would really miss them.

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Won’t work or it would have happened…… even in south La.

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Disagree. The Catholic League + St Paul’s + Catholic + privates and Catholics from Laffy, BR, Northshore, the Bayou, and NOLA could easily make it work if all they wanted to play was each other

The problem is half of the state would feel left out because the travel isn’t realistic

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And they would have to play each other only


Reason 12 it hasn’t happened

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It would work in South LA.

The problem is for them, the LHSAA has enough of a critical mass of public schools that no one would really miss them.

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no it wont because the 3A level schools are the problem in addition to all the other reasons spoken about here over and over

3A privates are too big for the small schools, too small for the big schools

this thread is a prime example of people that come into HS sports as a player or a parent, haven't a clue what the rest of us have been seeing or dealing with for the past 30 years and sees everything as fair/unfair relative to their narrow viewpoint without looking at the whole state. That includes both sides of the argument

the issues in the LHSAA are very complex and nuanced and people on both sides of all of the myriad of issues are too dug in to compromise. The split is probably built to last

So Eddie Bonines kid was cut from Catholic baseball, transferred, and was immediately eligible. Interesting

Any of our insider sleuths want to comment?

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Scone going off on LHSAA and Eddie B. Love it! I

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never mind his school didn't follow the rules..