re: LHSAA Legislative Meeting Eddie Refuses to show up

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Everything about your opinion sucks. Learn from what happened to colleges. When you start battling for kids money gets involved then it gets dirty.

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so schools shouldnt have to compete and the rights to the kids athletic abilities are owned by the people in that district?

im ok with it being a 1 time thing. But if a kid starts at a school, hates it, and wants to switch....he shouldnt be forced to stay or have to sit a year

at your work...if you took a new job and absolutely hated it, should you not be able to work for a year if you wanted to switch companies?

nobody is paying HS kids to move in this state. so stupid. even if its a private school offering free tuition....all that is doing is leveling the playing field in terms of what the parent pays. If the public school is better academically, athletically, has good facilities and good coaching...kids wont leave the public school unless they are just miserable.

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This is high school athletics. Amateur sports. We have completely lost the plot when high school sports becomes "who can recruit the best players".

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I don’t think any level is allowed to be amateur any longer…

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This is high school athletics. Amateur sports.

We have completely lost the plot when high school sports becomes "who can recruit the best players".

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i didnt say anything about recruiting. I said kids should be able to choose which school they attend.

If my kid wants to go to a school who has a much better AP program while also playing sports, he should be able to.

but going back to your point, why shouldnt we encourage schools to provide a better product to get kids to come there?

so we just allow them to put crap product on the field and in the class room and make kids stay or rig the zone so kids have to go to certain schools?

take sports out of it, are you saying schools shouldnt compete and strive to get better when it comes to academics and programs offered? if so, what is the incentive? Your solution is why 90% of LA public schools are terrible. there is zero incentive to get better because they know they will not lose their job as teachers or admin and they know they will have students because the state forces kids to go there.

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Recruiting has been part of High School athletics since the beginning. I was recruited by our rival high school PRINCIPAL. And that was in 1977.

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late to the party my man

Go in 8th grade problem solved

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Wrong, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Choose the school for the great AP program, that's your prerogative. But you will sit out a season from varsity sports for it. Congrats, you chose academics over athletics. That's good parenting.

Or, if your sole purpose in life is to shop your kid around to the best athletic program, pack your stuff up and move into the zone. That's allowed.

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good job missing the whole point of how about we not punish the parent for being a good parent and the kid for choosing the school that fits him better


and im not the one that is wrong here. you are the one acting like a damn commie where you own the rights to the kids athletic abilities just because they live in some imaginary line. Instead how about let the schools compete, but you wont, because that would require people being held accountable.

you seem to want to keep the same ole same ole not hold anyone accountable and force them to compete and get better. same old status quo

I think they can, correct?

I know of multiple basketball players in LP to move -1. A select school, and 2. An in parish public school - and they are both eligible, and playing.

Also a baseball/football player to Central
And a baseball player to Catholic.

All playing and eligible.

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I think they can, correct?

I know of multiple basketball players in LP to move -1. A select school, and 2. An in parish public school - and they are both eligible, and playing.

Also a baseball/football player to Central
And a baseball player to Catholic.

All playing and eligible.

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no they cant

so lets say a kid from the AP, goes to public school through 8th, wants to go to catholic, he can play freshman or JV ball but not varsity


you either have to live in the district or go to a feeder school in 8th grade. only ways and even private schools have what are considered districts but they are small.

only pertains to varsity though. everyone is eligible for freshman/jv teams.

to really know for sure, you have to get a principle to request a ruling but there are always people scheming around the rules

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But I agree- who cares. If parents can provide transportation, then so be it.

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people care because they have this weird thing were they feel like they own the kids athletic ability and parents do not want to do whats right for the kid, more what they feel like is right for their school

i.e. they want to help themselves and the school they like by forcing kids to do as they say. its control. Its the fear of being left behind and the thought process of "how dare he leave, he must think he is better than us"

you see it in LSU recruiting with the dumbasses with the sub IQ saying...."good luck living in LA after college" every time a kid decides to leave the state. Same people will run to the OT and bash LA, many of the same ones left in search of better opportunity for themselves. but even worse is when they hope and pray a kid gets hurt or fails

same mentality. always worried about what someone else is doing