Louisiana's Football Playoffs

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I saw a 4-6 Mandeville High team made the playoffs. Is this a result of removing private schools from the bracket?

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Mandeville is 4-5, and just beat St Pauls to get themselves in the playoffs. They're a solid team that started slow because their head coach quit right before the season started.

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Is this a result of removing private schools from the bracket?

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Yes, it is. High school playoffs (especially football) in Louisiana are nothing more than participation events now. The #1 seed in 1A has a bye in Rd 1 because South Cameron said they didn't want to participate in the playoffs.

There has been at least 1 year where an 0-10 team made the playoffs (may have also been South Cameron). It's a complete joke now.

Do they serve beer in the superdome for the championship weekend?

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Is this a result of removing private schools from the bracket?

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Yes, they split the playoffs but not the actual districts. As a result you get some districts with 1 or 2 privates in the larger classes and districts with 1 or 2 publics in some lower classes. So in order to get a representative from each district in the playoffs, they take teams with losing records in the playoffs. Additionally, there may not be enough teams with winning records to fill the brackets for the same reasons, lower classes private heavy, upper public heavy.

It has always been theoretically possible since the districts do not use a tiebreaker format to determine district champs and the district is determined solely on district record. So with 7 teams in your district, you could go 4-2 in district, lose all your out of district games, tie another team at 4-2 in district and be co-district champ at 4-6, potentially tied with an 8-2 team and knocking out a marginal 6-4 team (even one that may have beaten your team).

absurd we now have 10 different "state champions" or whatever.

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absurd we now have 10 different "state champions" or whatever.

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9.....but it's still absurd.

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And to the high school kids competing, it means something. They're not as jaded as we adults, they just want to play football.

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So what you're saying is, we've taught our kids to accept the "take your ball and go home" mentality when the other guys are better and you can't beat them?

The kids didn't make the decision to split the championships. I agree with that, 100%. And I know they are just glad to be out there playing, no matter the circumstances. But I don't see how any of them could not look back in 10 years and see how watered down the system is now. Does that make the championship mean less? No.

The real nonsense of it all is the number of championships won by public schools vs private schools was pretty even before the split, at least at the higher levels.

The split should have only affected the smaller schools.

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But I don't see how any of them could not look back in 10 years and see how watered down the system is now.

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they will, and will also look at what happened before the split to understand why it was done

5A has 51 teams... 32 get in... low seed is 4-6
4A has 49 teams... 32 get in... low seed is 5-5
3A has 50 teams... 32 get in... low seed is 3-7
2A has 42 teams... 32 get in... low seed is 2-8
1A has 32 teams... all 32 get in... 31 seed is 1-9, 32 seed is 0-9 and declined to play

DI has 13 teams... all get in... low seed is 0-10
DII has 16 teams... all 16 get in... but three teams decided not to play... so the 13 seed is 3-7 (teams not playing are 3-7, 3-6, and 0-10)
DIII has 14 teams... all 14 got in but the 14 seed (1-8) isn't playing... 13 seed is 2-8
DIV has 26 teams... 16 get in... low seed is 3-7

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But I don't see how any of them could not look back in 10 years and see how watered down the system is now.

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they will, and will also look at what happened before the split to understand why it was done

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Will they? And will they all agree? There are 2 names that show up a lot. Evangel and John Curtis. Here are the select state champs from 2000 until the the year before the split. 2013 was the firs year of the split

5A 4 in 13 years 3 of those were Evangel
2001 Evangel Christian
2002 Evangel Christian
2004 Evangel Christian
2012 Rummel

4A 5 in 13 years 3 were John Curtis
2001 John Curtis
2002 John Curtis
2003 Redemptorist
2004 John Curtis
2012 Edna Karr

3A 9 in 13 years 5 were Parkview
2000 Notre Dame
2001 Parkview Baptist
2002 Redemptorist
2005 Redemptorist
2007 Parkview Baptist
2009 Notre Dame
2010 Parkview Baptist
2011 St. Charles
2012 Parkview Baptist

2A 9 in 13 years 6 were John Curtis, 2 were Evangel
2000 Ouachita Christian
2005 John Curtis
2006 John Curtis
2007 John Curtis
2008 John Curtis
2009 Evangel Christian
2010 Evangel Christian
2011 John Curtis
2012 John Curtis

1A 6 in 13 years 2 were John Curtis
2003 Vermilion Catholic
2004 Dunham
2005 Evangel Christian
2006 Evangel Christian
2011 Ouachita Christian
2012 Ouachita Christian


33 of 65 were won by select schools. 32 by non select

Of the 33 wins, 9 by John Curtis, 7 By Evangel. Almost half by 2 schools. And only 2A and 3A were majority select. 1A was nearly split with 6 select/7 non select.

Personally, I think the split is kinda dumb.