Originally Posted by
The Historian
Keep in mind, Byrd plays in the Select playoffs with the private schools, as more than 25% of their total enrollment comes from outside of their school district.
But....one of the controversies in Louisiana has been the fact other public schools have rosters full of players from outside their school districts but because the total enrollment of the school doesn't exceed the 25% threshold they play Non-Select in the playoffs with the rest of the public schools.
That applies to schools like Acadiana and Alexandria Senior High at the 5A level and Edna Karr and Carencro at the 4A level.
Acadiana and Carencro are in Lafayette Parish and are both "academy" schools where any student in the parish can attend.
ASH pulls from all of Rapides Parish and has drastically improved in football over the past 5 years. Karr is also a magnet school that pulls from the west bank in Orleans Parish and has been a power for the past decade.
Many other public school leaders around the state believe that if those school's rosters exceed the 25% threshold they should be playing the Select schools in the playoffs.
All that said, it appears Catholic High created and maintained a recruiting system specific to football players that broke the rules to a point to where its administration didn't want to publicly challenge the penalties.