re: LHSAA: The Definition of 'Select' Schools Just Got A Lot More Broad

The point is now those schools are feeling what most private schools have been saying since this shite started.

“It’s not fair that we get put into select. We don’t ……insert whatever here.”

Yeah well neither do the vast majority of privates. Yet they got tossed out as if they were all the same.

Bottom line is, there is no way to make it “fair” for everyone. So what, life is like that. Sack up and play ball.

This will be good for the select brackets… a lot of fans tend to ignore them early on in the playoffs

Now that the numbers are more equal, no one will forget they exist any longer

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Well we’re growing again, there’s flight from NOLA, and now we get the kids from Violet too

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Chalmations and Violations

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Bottom line is, there is no way to make it “fair” for everyone. So what, life is like that. Sack up and play ball.

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There is a way to get a lot closer to being fair but no one has the stones the propose it as a solution to bring the private and public back together. Tell the privates they have to open up their books and prove they aren't giving scholarships to kids to play sports. Would it fix the issue of schools like Catholic High, John Curtis and others completely probably not but it would put slow it down.

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Could you explain in more detail how the LHSAA would go about this.

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Yes, who is paying the tuition for the student.

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So teaching teenagers about competition and the simple fact of life that the world is not fair is bad, got it.

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So you think schools such Catholic High cheating in athletics and winning championships is a good way to teach kids that life isn't fair?

Before you Catholic homers start bitching I am only using them as a example because they are the most recent high profile school to get busted breaking rules.

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Chalmations and Violations

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I heard a rumor from Orleans Parish that might shake the LHSAA

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Yes, who is paying the tuition for the student.

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So first off I did not go to CHS-BR, did not even go to high school in Louisiana. But I do know for schools such as Catholic that would be pointless as the donors/alumni donate to a general fund for athletes and non-athletes alike. Btw I do know for a fact there are way more kids on some sort of "scholarship" at CHS that do not play a sport than do. Being a private school nobody cares who is paying for the tuition.

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So you think schools such Catholic High cheating in athletics and winning championships is a good way to teach kids that life isn't fair?

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Short answer, yes.

Longer answer, I looked into what you speak of as I was not familiar with it, I would not consider what CHS did to be some morally reprehensible cheating scandal. The "cheating" you are referring to did not take away from the integrity of the sport. It was not like they played ineligible players, or did some kind of on the field scheme to gain a competitive advantage. As this board has said its not like anything that public schools do not do.

Again my only issue and having family that still lives in Louisiana with younger extended family that are now coming up in high school sports, some are at public and private schools, they seem to all agree and I would say 99% of high school kids want to compete in the same playoffs.

I don’t know if I’m at liberty to say it… but Orleans charters may all leave the LHSAA and just play for a city championship

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ote: I heard a rumor from Orleans Parish that might shake the LHSAA

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When they see the complexity of doing that….. they won’t

It won’t “shake” the lhsaa.

Karr is a magnet but not a charter.