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Post by Tarheel on Feb 17, 2015 11:11:54 GMT -6
I'm all for the BR district.
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Post by chelsea007 on Feb 17, 2015 11:11:53 GMT -6
Don't worry Ray, the LHSAA is on top of things in soccer. Thank God you are spotting their numerous errors.
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Post by rlb2024 on Feb 17, 2015 11:22:08 GMT -6
Another MIA--where is THOMAS JEFFERSON??? They are there -- listed as Jefferson, Thomas in Division II District 6 . . .
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Post by kevin on Feb 17, 2015 12:25:59 GMT -6
Anyone have a girls' list? Most of the all-girl schools are fairly natural 1-for-1 swaps with some of the boys' schools, but it'd be nice to see it written out.
DI seems pretty good if the plan was to make all the districts 6-8 teams. HL Bourgeois and Thibodaux are pretty isolated, so they're bound to be a somewhat awkward fit in whatever district they're in. Destrehan and Hahnville could easily be put with them for a four-team district, but if you want to make the district bigger than that, you have to pull in Ascension Parish or the Jefferson Parish schools (especially the West Bank ones).
I like an 8-team metro New Orleans district on the boys' side, but the girls' side would be filled with huge mismatches. I'd much rather see MCA/DHS/ACHS by themselves in a girls' Catholic league. The public school girls' teams in that district are nowhere near their level. I'll be interested to see how that shakes out.
I have no idea what's going on with the DII/DIII/DIV New Orleans-area districts. Baffling. Holy Cross and DLS in separate divisions? Lusher having to travel to Franklinton? Orleans/Jefferson DIV schools in 3 different districts?
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Post by beauchenecoach on Feb 17, 2015 12:42:06 GMT -6
Correct me if I am wrong, but the legislation that was passed was for eight districts, not seven. Am I wrong? That's been there forever and it's guidelines. But there could have been 8 in d3 for sure. How does lusher leave NOLA and go to Northshore teams and morgan City leave bayou and travel to lake Charles? Could have made a dostrict with Vandy, EDW, MC, and Lutcher. Left lusher with NOLA teams. d2 was done perfect in my opinion ams nothing out of ordinary. d3 having erath not with the other vermillion parish schools was nuts, while, Notre dame, which is closest to Lake Charles then all others wasn't in that St Louis district. Those two should be swapped. The Morgan city move is by far the most baffling!
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Post by nolapelota on Feb 17, 2015 12:43:36 GMT -6
Something I've never understood is: Who makes up the soccer districting? A committee? An individual? Soccer districting has never made sense to me. However, these are almost decent, except for the New Orleans area. And there it just complete falls apart.
Is districting farmed out to an ad hoc committee of principles or something?
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Post by retired_thibodaux_coach on Feb 17, 2015 12:43:58 GMT -6
Anyone have a girls' list? Most of the all-girl schools are fairly natural 1-for-1 swaps with some of the boys' schools, but it'd be nice to see it written out. DI seems pretty good if the plan was to make all the districts 6-8 teams. HL Bourgeois and Thibodaux are pretty isolated, so they're bound to be a somewhat awkward fit in whatever district they're in. Destrehan and Hahnville could easily be put with them for a four-team district, but if you want to make the district bigger than that, you have to pull in Ascension Parish or the Jefferson Parish schools (especially the West Bank ones). I like an 8-team metro New Orleans district on the boys' side, but the girls' side would be filled with huge mismatches. I'd much rather see MCA/DHS/ACHS by themselves in a girls' Catholic league. The public school girls' teams in that district are nowhere near their level. I'll be interested to see how that shakes out. I have no idea what's going on with the DII/DIII/DIV New Orleans-area districts. Baffling. Holy Cross and DLS in separate divisions? Lusher having to travel to Franklinton? Orleans/Jefferson DIV schools in 3 different districts? You are correct about Thibodaux and HLB being isolated, especially since all our local teams and rivals dropped to D2. Personally I'm Not too big on having to go play acension parish teams but gotta do what we gotta do. Our program is growing so the competition will be good but if this is the district we are in, we will def take a hit. I was hoping for a smaller districts. Interesting districting if this is what is to pass.
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Post by beauchenecoach on Feb 17, 2015 12:44:59 GMT -6
Something I've never understood is: Who makes up the soccer districting? A committee? An individual? Soccer districting has never made sense to me. However, these are almost decent, except for the New Orleans area. And there it just complete falls apart. Is districting farmed out to an ad hoc committee of principles or something? The interim director made them... Probably with some advice from others in office. I'm sure we have some principals protest and some slight changes made out of common sense.
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Post by loveofthegame11 on Feb 17, 2015 12:48:57 GMT -6
Anyone have a girls' list? Most of the all-girl schools are fairly natural 1-for-1 swaps with some of the boys' schools, but it'd be nice to see it written out. DI seems pretty good if the plan was to make all the districts 6-8 teams. HL Bourgeois and Thibodaux are pretty isolated, so they're bound to be a somewhat awkward fit in whatever district they're in. Destrehan and Hahnville could easily be put with them for a four-team district, but if you want to make the district bigger than that, you have to pull in Ascension Parish or the Jefferson Parish schools (especially the West Bank ones). I like an 8-team metro New Orleans district on the boys' side, but the girls' side would be filled with huge mismatches. I'd much rather see MCA/DHS/ACHS by themselves in a girls' Catholic league. The public school girls' teams in that district are nowhere near their level. I'll be interested to see how that shakes out. I have no idea what's going on with the DII/DIII/DIV New Orleans-area districts. Baffling. Holy Cross and DLS in separate divisions? Lusher having to travel to Franklinton? Orleans/Jefferson DIV schools in 3 different districts? Chapelle will be in D2 I believe. It will be interesting as to what they do with the 2 bayou schools and DHS & HHS. But with this being preliminary districts we will probably see a lot of changes.
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Post by retired_thibodaux_coach on Feb 17, 2015 12:49:15 GMT -6
In DI-Biggest surprise has to be in DI with the move of the Ascension Parish teams into the Bayou area district---I dont think anyone saw that coming. In DII-Seems Shreve will be in DII after all I do have some issues with the inclusion of Union and St Martinville in these districts as it is my understanding they havent played yet at any level--can someone give me more info. Also, San Houston didnt field a team this year, so how are they included? In DIII- St Louis effectively has to drive past Kaplan, Notre Dame, North Vermillion and Abbeville to get to Morgan City..scratching my head on that one. The metro New Orleans districts listed here are just, well, stupid. Not sure who came up with the idea for Lusher and JS Clark to go to the Northshore. Cant see Clark travelling to Franklinton. Also arent Sacred heart and Ursuline all girls schools? Who was responsible for putting them on this list? Seems like it would make a WHOLE lot more sense to move Morgan City in with Lutcher, Vandebilt and ED White, and then bring Lusher in with Clark, Belle Chasse, NOM&M, and International? In D IV- seems to have a few issues and surprises--Red River in with the Alexandria teams, Catholic-PC stays in metro BTR were the surprises. In The metro New Orleans districts listed here are just, well, stupid--PART DEAUX--Fisher, Ecole Classique, and Ridgewood didnt field teams this year, so why are they going to be included? Why have St Charles and Riverside drive right past Country Day, St Martins, Lutheran, Haynes and Patrick taylor to play Newman? Wouldnt it be a ton smarter to just take Newman, and put them in a District with St Martins, Lutheran, Country Day, Haynes, and Patrick Taylor? AND WHERE IN THE HECK IS ARCHBISHOP SHAW? THEY ARE NO WHERE ON THIS PLAN.. I'm def with you on D1 bayou, ascension parish, and river district surprise. It's a pretty good competition district. But from my stand point (Thibodaux coach) our program is mostly inexperience players and a growing program. So it should be interesting for us. Lol
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Post by beauchenecoach on Feb 17, 2015 12:58:59 GMT -6
St. Martinville will have at least 10-12 club players that I know of. They don't need to play JV for a couple of years and can play Varsiry immediately. That was their decision and the right one in their case.
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Post by warrior16 on Feb 17, 2015 13:17:54 GMT -6
Who made this? D-II is alright, but some of the other things on here are silly, to say the least. New Orleans is a mess, and they've got St. Louis traveling three hours to Morgan City for a district game when there are much closer teams not in their district.
Hopefully these will be changed a bit.
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Post by coachray40 on Feb 17, 2015 13:31:01 GMT -6
Another MIA--where is THOMAS JEFFERSON??? They are there -- listed as Jefferson, Thomas in Division II District 6 . . . Thank goodness..I have put in a call to LHSAA and they are very relieved the school split has been avoided! There might have been chaos.....oh wait, we still have the REST of this districting farce..er.plan...
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Post by coachray40 on Feb 17, 2015 13:35:30 GMT -6
According to the email from LHSAA any objections or concerns about this plan have to be submitted to BJ Guzzardo and Jimmy Anderson by 4:00 PM on Feb 23. After that dis be da law!
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Post by beauchenecoach on Feb 17, 2015 13:37:30 GMT -6
Link to our website article which has the actual released pages that were emailed to principals that included both genders. Note that these are preliminary and teams not happy need to get their principals to get with others to come up with counter proposal ASAP and send in to Lhsaa asap! laprepsoccer.net/wp/new-preliminary-soccer-districts-released/
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Post by coachray40 on Feb 17, 2015 13:41:25 GMT -6
St. Martinville will have at least 10-12 club players that I know of. They don't need to play JV a couple of years. I based my earlier statement on a quote you made earlier that you were not hearing good things about Cecilia and St Martinville, though you only gave reasons for the Cecilia issues. Im still not a big fan of placing teams into districts before they actually field a team for a year. We dont want teams for 1-3 years, we want long lasting programs. Hopefully St Martinville will be okay and I hope the best for them.
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Post by loJic on Feb 17, 2015 14:04:12 GMT -6
Awful across the board.
3-4 team districts are all that is needed with power ratings
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Post by bhsrams on Feb 17, 2015 14:31:35 GMT -6
Did anyone else notice the cutoff numbers changed? The email last week said one thing and now the latest email has different numbers. They've changed as follows:
DI was 1346 and now it's 1340 and above DII was 885-1345 and now it's 802-1339 DIII was 401-884 and now it's 449-801 DIV was 400 and below and now it's 448 and below
I realize this doen't impact everyone but it will some. For instance, our enrollment number being used is 849 (according to our principal). This would move us from DIII up to DII but the latest email has us still with DIII. There is a mistake somewhere unless there is something else I'm not taking into consideration.
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Post by kevin on Feb 17, 2015 14:37:17 GMT -6
Awful across the board. 3-4 team districts are all that is needed with power ratings So that teams can play six games and make the playoffs? So that a bunch more automatic bids can make a 24-team field? I would hope that most of these 6-8 team districts will only play each other once, but as long as that's the case I don't see the harm in most of the districts being 6-8 teams. Travel may be worse for some, but in a 7-team district that plays a single round-robin, you're only traveling for three district matches. Also, guaranteeing that teams play a slightly broader mix of opponents should make it less likely for power rating flukes to occur.
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Post by retired_thibodaux_coach on Feb 17, 2015 14:40:30 GMT -6
Awful across the board. 3-4 team districts are all that is needed with power ratings Completely agree. 3-4 teams in a district, even if you play two rounds, that is still 10-12 games outside of district to work on a teams power rating, not even counting tournaments.
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