re: Evangel Christian academy LA

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Curtis played the 5A schools that would play them.

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record vs Catholic league and top publics was pretty stout 1985 through 2013 - Beat eventual state champ ehret in 85 and only 1 loss to a catholic league team shaw 97 until 2013. and yes many 5a schools avoided them like the plague.

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berlin 99,98,97 rawls, 2000. JD booty 2001, 2002 pretty sure 03/04 was longtime eca people but i could be wrong.

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you are right, I cant remember.
might have just been rumors, those kr.com days were pretty wild with evangel, WM, Neville fans going at each other

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I remember Evangel had a QB transfer in from OK or East Texas during that era but I cant remember who it was

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Geoff Nixon blatantly relocated from Dallas (after already transferring schools 3 times) to play at Evangel. The LSHAA told evangel to get fricked and denied him eligibility. I don’t think he ever ended up playing anywhere.

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i am not defending Curtis in any way

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I didn’t mean to imply you were.

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but like it or not, that was JT’s justification.

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I know it was. And 1) we all know it’s bullshite, but 2) it’s even bigger bullshite to blame it on the girls’ softball team. It’s insulting to the literal girls’ softball players/teams, but more insulting that he thought anybody was stupid enough to buy it.

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That being said, Curtis played the 5A schools that would play them.

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I don’t doubt that. I watched West Monroe handle them in a “classic” game (J. Haudi or something?) in the Dome one year, but it was a regular season game and didn’t prevent Curtis from winning the 4A Championship. Just playing that game probably helped them
secure the #1 seed in 4A.

I don’t know how power rankings work—I know it’s changed a bunch—but would it behoove a 5A team to play a 4A Curtis? I don’t really follow high school football these days, but when I was in the 90s-early aughts, there were maybe 4-5 5A teams (?) in a given year that would/could beat Curtis. Even if they beat Curtis in a regular season game and that wound up being the only regular season game Curtis lost, would that help/hurt their power ranking?

So yeah, I’m sure a lot of 5A teams did dodge Curtis. 1, most would lose. 2, the ones that could actually compete could potentially be hurt with a win, and would almost certainly lose twice in a loss (loss on the field and power points by losing to a team in a lower class). So, I’m sure there were some teams that dodged them because they were scared of getting embarrassed. And others who avoided them because there was nothing in it for them.