re: High School Football: Your Alma Mater

Kaplan High, Louisiana.

We stunk when I was in school, 1980-84

My junior year we were awful….we had not scored in the first 5 games. And then had to play Tuerlings, who had not allowed a point. The media was all over it. We lost 35-0. Winless that year.

Now Kaplan is always in the playoffs, but never gets past state semifinals.

We are a girls softball and girls basketball school—3 or 4 state titles

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3.) Rummel vs Evangel in 2001 - This playoff game was fricking wild. Even though Rummel got waxed by like 35+ that was THE largest crowd I have ever seen at a HS game. Evangel had JD Booty and no one was beating them. Both sides of Yenni were packed like sardines and the fences were full all along the side.

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I was at that game... Booty took the snap out of the shotgun like 14 yards deep from center. It was almost like he was going to punt... Rummel had a stout defense but they weren't coming close to him that deep in the backfield...

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i don't know... that's a long trip and Evangel was and is really a borderline 1A-2A sized school... i saw their playoff game against Holy Cross (a 54-0 Evangel W, still the only 5A playoff game ever at Bobby Nuss) played at our stadium and they didn't bring that many

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There were many neutral fans at that game just for good football...

I remember seeing a bunch of other Catholic league school kids there besides Rummel fans.

I think the 2012 Rummel/Barbe state championship game in the Dome was the largest crowd I've seen at a HS game. The Rummel side was packed in the Plaza and the Lodge from endzone to endzone.

That shotgun they used to do was wild

Not really. My alma mater (Kimball HS in Dallas) was in transition when I was there, it's now majority black and among the better boys basketball programs in the state.

Interestingly we won the first two girls soccer state titles when the UIL added the sport. We wouldn't be anywhere near that now.

Acadiana HS, Lafayette, La

I was on the first state title team in 2006 while also going to the finals in 05,07. Since then they have won 5 more titles and became the most dominant Louisiana 5A program of the 21st century

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1 state title … could be a lot more but for the last 50 years Neville has ignored recruiting rules and school zoning regulations or created new ones … to take all the good football players

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Oliver Lawerence went to Neville but lived in Carroll's school district and this came straight from him to me in person.

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Comeaux HS, Lafayette, LA

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Should be renamed to Kyle Kipps HS, IMO.

My home is butt-up against Yenni. That was the largest crowd in the 27 years we live there. My buddy and I jumped the backyard fence and stood in the north end zone for a while. Booty was smooth with great footwork.

I was a 165 pound pulling guard and LB at Farmerville in the mid-70's. Moved there in 10th grade. We were in the same 2A district with Homer and Haynesville back then . Those two always finished first and second back then. We had winning seasons but didn't make the playoffs.

My senior year they moved us into 3A in a district with Wossman, Winnsboro, Richwood, Rayville. We finished 3-7.

The class behind me went 1-9 their senior year. Coach Joe Spatafora turned the program around. They won state in 2A in

Lived in Kosciusko, MS through my freshman year. The Whippets were great at football back then. Played in the Choctaw Conference with Louisville, Neshoba Central, Starkville, Eupora, Philadelphia, Ackerman & more. If those teams sound familiar, it's because it's the same district Marcus Dupree played in!

The year I was a freshman, our 7th grade, 8th grade 9th grade and varsity teams all went undefeated in the regular season. My 9th grade team had the only blemish on the record, a 10-10 tie. My class went on to win some kind of championship under Coach Ricky Black after I had moved away. Coach Black was the 7th grade coach when I was a freshman.

https://www.ahsfhs.org Kosciusko 1977