re: Quick Recap of LA HS divisional revamp

Why are people crying for the medium sized "select" schools having to play with the big "select" schools. John Curtis and Evangel have shown that the advantages of a "select" school allow them the chance to have a grat football team at a school with about 140 boys.

U High was an average 2A football team, then they hired a new coach, opened up admissions to a few kids that wouldn't have gotten in school there before, and now they have major division 1 recruits running all over the field. It's no secret to how to win.

Exactly, they labeled it as select as a way to get rid of more teams that are consistently competing for titles. Must be nice for 4-A to off Karr, who has played for the state title 3 years in a row.

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The Supreme Court has already ruled that it is a private organization and the legis cant do dick

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You're right on the first point, wrong on the second.

The Legislatute can prohibit all Louisiana public schools from being members of the LHSAA. In fact, that's what the first bill will look like.

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U-high is a public school, but not just anybody can go there. They get to select their kids, and they are letting some pretty impressive athletes in U-High right now. I agree with you about the Winnfield principal. The whole situation was about two schools and she and other public school principals threw all "select" schools under the bus. Louisiana is not like Texas, the problem should have been delt with in some other fashion.

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The problem is that there is a misconception that there is a problem. Go look at the data, something Dr. Griffin failed to do.

This is what happens when people with ovaries get involved with football.

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The problem is that there is a misconception that there is a problem. Go look at the data, something Dr. Griffin failed to do.

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Dr Griffin was too busy writing her soundbites about her 145lb guard in 2011 that had to go up against a 300lb D1 recruit, while ignoring the multiple D1 recruits on her own 2011 team. She didn't have time to look into facts.

ETA: It's funny that Winnfield had a 145lb OL while they had a 6'2" 225lb WR/DE. I bet she never felt bad for anyone that lined up across from MJ Patterson.

I'm still shocked that the principals voted to approve the playoff split this year, on such short notice, WITHOUT HAVING A CLUE AS TO HOW THIS WILL BE APPLIED. Nobody even has a guess as to how this will be accomplished.

If the LHSAA doesn't close the district loopholes for the non-selects this will be the most hypocritical decision ever.

I mean hell lets just take a team like Franklinton for example. When I was there nobody from Bogalusa went to Franklinton High, but when Franklinton High gets a little steam in football and Bogalusa is going downhill you have several guys from Bogalusa "moving in with" relatives that live in Franklinton and all of a sudden they are playing football at FHS.

This is bullshite.....all the damn non-selects complain about recruiting at the select level. What they don't realize is that most select schools that they are worried about don't have to recruit. I guarantee you more great football players just show up at the doors of JC and Evangel because those are the schools that get their guys noticed by the recruiting services and D1 colleges.

They had guys playing football at Franklinton when I was there that could have played at SLU, UL, or maybe even Tulane but did the coaches reach out to any recruiting services or did we ever see any recruiters at practice....hell no.

The bottom line is if you are going to talk about the problem that caused the split being recruiting at the select level then you need to talk about the district loopholes at the non-select level as well.

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This is bullshite.....all the damn non-selects complain about recruiting at the select level

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Ironic considering the last few recruiting violations were committed by non-selects.

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If that is how every non-select coach feels....then shite I say it would probably be better for selects to just split now and start the painful process of coming up with something that will work for just them and then let the non-selects kill sports at 35-45% of their brethen schools.

ETA I'd love to see what Winnfield's principal is talking about when they are having to have bucket brigades go around town at traffic lights trying to get them some change to gas up the buses to get them to the game that night in Jonesboro.

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Winfield football will be fine. As Moscona said, community schools will be okay without the private school money in football and basketball. It will kill the smaller sports in those schools.

But urban public schools will be financially crushed if the privates split. They could easily lose all athletics.

The new association by the privates would be open to all - publics included. Obviously, there are some serious organizational and management issues with the LHSAA that the new association would seek to rectify. But it would not be exclusive or discriminatory.