re: LHSAA meetings....looks like more trouble on the horizon.

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Please show me this 70 point victory

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Probably referring to the first round of the playoffs, the first year all the schools got moved down. Can't remember if it was 2004 or 2005.

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If you don't think baseball players have moved into the district to play for the Barbes and Zacharys

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I know if I was getting transferred to the Lake Charles area and my kid was good in Baseball, I'd look for a home in Barbe's attendance zone. Same if I got transferred to the Monroe area and he was a football player, I'd be looking in the West Monroe zone. Now if the schools in the area are not good academically I'd be looking at private schools. Some parents do move just so their kids can play ball for a certain school, as long as they actually move I don't have a problem.

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Curtis has never scored 70...

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Was answering a question concerning Evangel

Alot of schools are already preparing for this in case it happens. I know that quite a few public schools will choose to play in the private school classification if given the option. Karr, West Monroe, Neville, St. James, Scotlandville, East St. John and Lutcher have all stated they plan to jump to the private/magnet school side. The public schools will also have a hard time getting sponsorships for their championships.

I never said JC scored 70. I know why they dominate and there is no doubt those kids prepare themselves and WANT to win.

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Widest margin of victory ever was 60-0 in 1978...

Not true

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so which one was it?

I said 70. It was obviously incorrect. It was used more as a figure of speech than an obvious researched fact. I'm sorry I wasn't literal.

But it's still hypocrisy. They're willing to play in a shitty 3A district and blow out ED White and Plaquemine and win it all. But they won't play in the Catholic School League because their baseball and basketball team would get their arse kicked? Cry me a river.

A public/private split will create unintended consequences that the public school fans may not be considering. If the LHSAA thinks they can dictate terms to the private schools and the private schools wont start their own association then they are hopelessly deluded. Why belong to an association that stigmatizes you?

If the LPHSAA is created here are some things to chew on:

2 different Associations, 2 different governing bodies, 2 different sets of rules, 2 different agendas

#1 Officials
if the privates split, rest assured they will take the best officials from the local association with them. Ref associations are based on private contractor status and are free to work for whomever they want. So offer five bucks a game more than the publics, better work environments and the opportunity to cull the Ref ranks of the garbage officials that only care about money and BOOM you have created a HAVES vs HAVE NOTS in those who officiate the games. ADVANTAGE PRIVATES

#2 Recruiting of Athletes
If there are no common rules and governing body overseeing application of student aid, inducements and illegal contact of HS age students what is to prevent the local private schools from raiding the local public school rosters and attempting to steal kids away? ADVANTAGE PRIVATES

#3 Sponsorship of programs and events
If the local "money" set has concentrated themselves in the private schools, and the best athletes and best coaches are concentrated at the athletic factories in the private school league and then what do you think will happen to the sponsorships of public school league events? All you will have wanting to sponsor the public school league will be people connected to the players. ADVANTAGE PRIVATES

#4 Competitive balance
If the best programs are all concentrated into one league then what good is winning the championship of a watered down league? ADVANTAGE PRIVATES

#5 Scheduling and gate issues
I have heard the proposal that publics and privates could play in the regular season (and share their gate money to the publics) but then each would play for their own championships. What benefit does that scenario present for the private school? The only one I can think of is it would give a up close look at the athletes in the public school for the private school coaches to recruit. Other than that why would the private schools want to prop up the local public schools with gate money? As soon as the public school loses one kid HS age to a private school they recently played they wont ever play again. ADVANTAGE PRIVATES

Split the association into public and private groups and it will create a Sun Belt vs SEC type of environment for HS athletics in the state.

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In baseball and hoops.. they are not gonna dominate 3a...

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baseball, no.
basketball, maybe.

They do the same things they do in basketball now that they do in football. Curtis is loaded with underclassmen in basketball. Just got a top player from Riverside to transfer there.