re: LHSAA's select/nonselect balance shifts again, playoff structure pending

Butthurt North LA small schools

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Well yeah, whenever you’re allowed to get whoever the hell you want, you should be pretty good.

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Dutchtown is currently actively recruiting a kid who goes to my kids private school.

Privates can't get whoever the hell they want. In some cases they offer better opportunities. Competition is a hell of a thing.

I do hope the brackets are no more than 20-24 teams though. No need for blowouts.

I was going to say pretty much the same thing but nicer. Looks like I don’t need to say it now.

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Everyone, and I mean everyone, got tired o db JC and Evangel blatantly cheating and recruiting and winning their divisions more likely than not.

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how is it cheating?

look i went to public school, we were the best public 3a in the state my senior year and i would have a ring if it wasnt for private but this is the dumbest thought process i have ever seen.

first off....they arent paying the kids to come there, all they are doing is AT MAX offering a free education......oh you know...same thing the public schools are doing.

so they arent recruiting, they are just leveling the playing field.

guess what..if you school, program, facilities, training, coaching and history of getting kids into college was as good as the private he wouldnt be leaving.

the ones bitching about cheating would be much better served by putting the same energy on improving their own school and program.


oh and frick MANY, they are the worst. Get to pull from enrollment as big as Sulphur, but get to play non select 2A ball. bunch of pussies!!

The split is not great but it addressed an issue that 100% had to be looked at and should have been addressed when the LHSAA was first created. Public and private schools operate under different sets of rules. Now maybe the answer is to allow public schools to play kids for anywhere as long as they attend the school. I’m all about choice. But the people who throw out schools like Many as some gotcha are so short sighted, even with many’s Sabine parish advantage it doesn’t come close to the built in Advantage allowed to all private schools whether they take advantage of it or not. And the split isn’t about recruiting it is about which students can attend you school and be eligible which is where the disparity is in the rules. You put a private school on the same site as many and they could have players from the surrounding 4 parishes which we see with a lot schools. The answer isn’t t to go back to the terrible pre split stays quo where half the schools in the state play with 1 arm tied behind their back. It is end the split by fixing the initial issue. The poster who said we use to settle it on the field is so laughably ignorant by the way. Yeah settled it on the field with 2 separate set of rules.

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The split was an overreaction to private schools recruiting and winning period. The problem is public schools recruit too. The bigger issue is getting a kid that transfers to your school "eligible" to play and if you know somebody in the LHSAA you have a better chance of getting that kid cleared. Typical Louisiana corruption. Put everybody back together and come up with harsher punishments for the coaches that recruit. Don't punish the kid or the school. Punish the adult that broke the rule.

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or here is an idea...allow full school choice and kids just play where they go to school and stop making decisions based on athletics.

let the kids go where they want and let the schools compete!!

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The poster who said we use to settle it on the field

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We did. I personally saw John Curtis lose in the Dome to a nonselect school. They had advantages, not guaranteed championships

But some would never be happy until Curtis had a down year with no athletes and a 2-8 record or something

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7 4a and 5A schools that were tired of losing to two certain schools. and created the "play in class" butt hurt from big boys too.....

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And to add insult to injury having to split playoff gate money and sell concessions with/to a 1A and 2A size crowd.

I’d like to add recruiting is not just kids going from public to private a friend of mines kid was recruited from one of the 5A Catholic league teams to SCC. He was a freshman qb and the starter was a sophomore. Everyone realized he likely wouldn’t play until his senior year.

SCC offered him nothing but the chance to compete and a more favorable depth chart. They happily paid tuition at each school.

The Catholic league school would have loved to keep him. They didn’t get everyone they wanted.