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Too many championships is like too many bowl games. Maybe watered down some, but more games is a good thing. Having the same three or four teams win three of the classes every year was not good for La. high school sports.Originally Posted by StrayDawg
So having seven championships and the same 7-8 schools winning each year is going to be an improvement?
There were two ways to fix this using just 6 classes instead of one.
Option A- take the 32 biggest schools or take 25 or so of the biggest schools plus a few privates that want to move up and have a 32 team, 4 district 6A. Then take the 200 or so other teams and divide them evenly among 1A-5A. So you have Acadia a, west Monroe, ouachita, Byrd, Curtis, and evangel all playing for the same title.
Option B- take the 240 or 250 or whatever it is and spread them out over 6 classes. This makes it more like 40 something teams in each class instead of 50 something. This again makes that top level more for the really giant teams. The best part about this option is travel. You take 5A and 6A and combine them during the regular season. So Ruston, West Monroe, Ouachita, Neville are in the same district. You can have tighter districts because you have 90 teams between 5A and 6A. Then you split them back apart for the playoffs. So if a 3A team like Ray ville is in a district with a bunch of 4A teams they got power point bumps for playing up in class. So it may be tougher regular season but they get to play a lot of closer schools in monroe and they get a higher power ranking for the 3A playoffs.
Just my opinion here: Athletic programs at several of the public "non-select" schools will go in the crapper over the next 5 years. Their jealousy of Evangel, Calvary, etc. is going to be a terrible thing for their own programs.
Do the transfer rules change any? If a kid moves from a "non-select" school to a "select" school, how does that affect his eligibility?
I wanna ax a stipit question. Why couldnt they just put the select schools on one side of a bracket and the nonselects on the other? That way the selects fight each other for the right to b in the championship game as do the nonselects.
Then we know who the top dogs are without the selects knockin off the nonselects until championship game
Seven football championships in Louisiana for just about 40 more schools than Texas has for two championships in 5A alone...ridiculous. Especially mandating 32-team brackets when there will be only around 25 schools available for the Class A non-select bracket. With this there should at most be six championships and preferably five (four non-select classes and two select divisions, or three and two).
If a student transfers from a non-select school to a select school outside the non-select attendance zone after attending the non-select school, that is definitely a one-year transfer ineligibility for varsity athletics. I think with the new rules, those transfers would be eligible for JV athletics.
Last edited by RealityCheck; 01-25-2013 at 08:37 PM.
Apparently the principal at Winnfield HS initiated this proposal. She said it was unfair and hurtful that her kids never had a real chance at winning a state championship. Okay....
Then I heard another principal citing a school that had only one win last year and missed the playoffs, but under this new proposal, well looky-there! they get in too!
I am so glad Rummel won a state championship while it was still REAL! I mean, EVERY 5A school in the state had a shot, private and public.
Of course, the select side of this equation might be super-tough now. I hope so. But, I don't like this proposal. And of course, now many are saying basketball and baseball need to be set up the same way. After all, those poor little public schools need help there too. Right?
The pussification of America has come to Louisiana....
This stinks for Loyola.....a private school that is not a football factory. Talk about no chance, ever!!
I agree with dawg80, the pussification as reached the bayou state.
I do want to add that I think this proposal is unnecessary. IMO, this is a major slap in the face of some superb programs, who just happened to be public schools. In 5A, had things been left alone, the top 3 BIG TIME chalks in 2013 would have been Barbe, West Monroe, and Mandeville....all public schools.
I watched Rummel struggle with Quachita and just barely escape with a win. Now....some say public schools can't compete? Really? As someone else mentioned, tell that to Haynesville, Oak Grove, Neville, Kentwood, etc.....
This is a sad day for Louisiana high school sports.
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After reading the news reports, I guess a chart of the eligibles would explain the breakdown a little better for me.
The Lafayette paper says: "Select schools include all non-public, charter, university lab and magnet schools as well as dual-curriculum schools that include at least 25 percent of their enrollment as select admission students who do not live in the designated attendance zone. According to the proposition, a non-select school is a public school with a set attendance zone, while select schools is a public or non-public school that has an admission policy to select the students who attend the school.
Couple of questions:
--What does dual-curriculum mean?
--How does West Monroe qualify as a "select" school since they and West Ouachita split the attendance zones in western Ouachita Parish?
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Dual-curriculum means the school has a neighborhood students and a magnet students
I have to agree with idea that the legislature isn't going to let this happen. Who is the biggest enemy of the public schools who would be considered "Non-Select" under this format? That would be Bobby Jindal. Who could have a few of his leaders in the state legislature easily round up the votes to kill this. Why that would be Bobby Jindal. And he could make it happen without leaving his fingerprints anywhere to be found.
So you think the legislature will put pressure on the LHSAA members to vote differently?
I'm trying to imagine the conversation Mike Walsworth or Jay Morris would have with the area public school folks to get that done.
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