re: Louisiana High School Football will split Public/Private. **Edited with Yes/No**

I went to private school and was recruited. The coach came to me in the 8th grade and offered me an Atari game system. I should have held out for a bicycle

This split will end all of the recruiting

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This is going to have negative consequences for the very schools that voted for it and they'll have nobody to blame but themselves.

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I think the privates give themselves too much credit about how important they are, and what kind of negative effects this will have on the publics. We'll see.

We'll see. I think the privates overestimate the size of the dick they think they're swinging. Most of the state isn't BR and NO and doesn't care about them.

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What would be your strategy then? And one which would hold up in court should a school sue you. You can't say they have to play a certain division. You would lose very easily.

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My solution:

1. Go back to allow teams to play up
2. Define privates two ways: By population access within a 30 mile radius of the school and by whether they give financial aid to ANY athlete.

a. Come up with a forumla that is added to the private school enrollment: The greater the population access within 30 miles of campus, the more that is added to the enrollment. So Curtis, with about 750k people within 30 minutes of campus, would see its LHSAA enrollent jump to, say, 4A. There would be a similar effect for Evangel.
b. If a private school gives financial aid, that would automatically give it a bump of at least one class. So Curtis would, say, be bumped up two classes by the population access factor, then to 5A because it gives financial aid. Same with Evangel, Many other metro privates would get caught in this.

A school like Dunham would bump up based on population access, but may be limited to 3A because it probably would cease to give financial aid even if it does give it now.

This combination of rules would get all of the metro-area private schools out of the lowest classes, where the one-school, rural towns have a hard time competing. The only private schools left in the smallest classes are ones that don't have access to large populations (your Notre Damee, Opelousas Catholic, St. Ed, etc.) and can demonstrate they don't give financial aid.

If you're Winnfield and you can't beat Opelousas Catholic if OC can prove it doesn't give financial aid, then shame on you Winnfield.

3. Come up with a similar formula for select public schools that draw certain percentages of students from outside of the school zone, similar to the forumla used now. Bump Karr to 5A if half the students come from the other side of the Crescent City Connection, basically.

4. Once you determine what classes the privates and select publics fall, then re-divide the classes (with the privates and select publics locked into their assigned classes). In other words, let's say Zachary has 1,100 students and is the smallest 5A when you rank all the schools strictly by enrollment. Then you start adjusting private schools and select publics and lock them in and then recount it based on everybody else's enrollment. Now, Zachary probably drops to 4A. This keeps the classes even.

5. Increase dues and use the money to increase the investigative branch of the LHSAA to make sure privates aren't lying about their financial aid, select schools aren't fudging their out-of-district numbers, etc.

There you go. Relatively simple solution that is MUCH better than the bullshyte they just passed.

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Right because the other two largest cities don't have any good private school programs. Evangel, and Calvery baptist of Shreveport say hello! And STM , teurlings and notre dame and several others in the Lafayette area say hello!

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But most of the butthurt is coming from BR and NO

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Coursey Corridor

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Interesting plan. Too bad nobody was willing to hash something like this out beforehand.

If you were a public school head coach/ principal in NO you might be a little pissed by the straight up theft of your kids. NO might have the best case on the public school side. Fellows, it's just time they split.

The most interesting question is would the privates allow JC into a new association. That's a fascinating question. A little hypocritical of the catholic league school though, no?

Here is the question.

Is this going to decrease or increase the recruiting of kids in Louisiana?

This is some bullshite.

you also have to think how many kids got scholarships that wouldn't have got them had they gone to a public school...