North vermilion would be class B
- Select/Non-Select will stay. Too many non-select have advantages such as using the Catholic Diocese scholarships on athletes. Or having a fun parents pay into to get athletes on scholarship.
- Should have gone to 4 classes at the start. However, that was before charter schools began popping up on every corner. Now itās back to around 62 schools per class which is close to what it was before.
- That wouldnāt work for high school athletics. Not allowed to play up per sport. Reason LCA is still 2A is because they donāt think their softball & baseball programs can compete in higher class like football & basketball.
- Bad 3A, 4A, 5A schools would end up playing bad 2A, 1A schools and unfortunately thatās where major injuries start. Many small schools were forfeiting games late in the season because they didnāt have enough healthy players. One fix for that would starting 8 man football for those schools.
Pro/Rel doesnāt have to be for every sport.
If schools have advantages others dont, those schools will congregate together over time through promotion.
By natural selection, schools will end up competing against schools with similar levels of resources.
Orange Lutheran (2-8) beats the #4 team in the nation to advance to CIF semifinals
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This is how it was in Missouri when I went to high school. Private schools had a multiplier number which usually moved up the school to the higher division
wtf is an orange Lutheran? Our president?
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Nah thatās Donica Lewinsky.
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No chance of relegation.
Schools all over the state get promoted and relegated every time we reclassify. It happens all of the time. Iām merely suggesting that this reclassification be done based on competitiveness rather than student population.
Each sport individually or football decides for the entire school?
Should be 16 teams, not 24. No BYES.
Hear me out. Go back to 1A-5A with normal districts. Butā¦
Have only ONE open select league. Any school, public or private, can opt in or out of the league on a 3 year rotation. Schools like Acadiana, Edna Karr, Catholic BR, West Monroe, Evangel, ASH, JC, LCA etc all in the same bracket. The best in the state playing the best in the state. Let the smaller schools do their own thing, but have all the powerhouses back under ONE umbrella, like it should be.
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How many do you think would actually opt in? Lets say Karr opts in 1st. In that scenario unless they are forced to, I see no one else opting in.
There are rumors out there that Karr is currently try to figure out a way to start playing a national schedule. They are just on a different level than any other school in the state.
Karr currently has a 48-7 record over the past 5 years. 4 of the 7 losses came in 2022.
Itās just wishful thinking. I say 4A and 5A should combine and play a full 32 team playoff, no public/private split.
Iām a fan of NO SPLIT over the split. 9 state champions in a state this small is ridiculous. If itās going to remain this way though, there should only be 16 teams per bracket, and no BYEs.
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I do like where you are going with it. Nothing will ever be āfairā. Top schools in the state, mainly 4A & 5A, will need to be forced into a āSuper Divisionā.
Dont know how they do it but it will likely need to be monetized to help bring back to a level playing field inside that āSuper Divisionā. I say that only because there will be disparity between the top couple schools and lower couple schools in that said āSuper Divisionā.
Maybe 2 schools in the major cities become āacademiesā. Somehow, I think you would want 8 teams battling it out for the top school in the state.
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Yes it does, because it is slop. It is a huge pile of rotting garbage. EVERYBODY wants to squeeze every penny they can out of this scam, and EVERYBODY wants their pet peeve addressed.
NOBODY in this process is looking out for what is best for the children of this state. Not even their parents. Itās so freakin sad, but doesnāt surprise me. We are a state owned and run by the worst class of people on the planet.
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A handful of schools ruined it for everyone. If they would have just punished LCA , Curtis and Calivry we wouldnāt be in this mess.
A good bit of those appeals are for travel reasons. Jefferson Parish schools want their teams to stay in the same district together because itās easier with them sharing stadiums. Haynes wants to move to a district with 3 other Jefferson parish schools. Northlake Christian wans to be in a north shore district (10-2A) instead of the south shore district (11-2A). A few others are for volleyball and soccer districts for travel purposes.