Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

0Icky0: Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

Once church has three high school football teams?

MyNameIsMofuga: 0Icky0: Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

Once church has three high school football teams?

Saint Sandusky?

Bet the 'roid distributor in that parrish is sitting pretty.

0Icky0: Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

Yup. Subby, Parrish is the Louisiana equivalent of a county. Do you have any idea how many state titles have been won by teams from, for example, Dallas County? And those are Texas titles.

I see I'm not the only one at odds with that headline. Small towns don't have 4A schools, much less 5A, and certainly not both.

Also, is the link wrong? It takes me to the results of one game. The piece on all 3 is a different article.

0Icky0: Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

Isn't a "Parrish" a Boston basketball player?

/lovin' how everyone else is repeating the double-r error
//grumpy this morning

The picture in the link is pretty goofy.

PabloHosehead: 0Icky0: Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

Isn't a "Parrish" a Boston basketball player?

/lovin' how everyone else is repeating the double-r error
//grumpy this morning

No, he's only got 1 r also.

/call them counties like every one else damnit

And I bet they broke every rule in the book to win them. High school football is more crooked than college ball.

I live in Monroe, LA, so it's cool to see this here.

Monroe is a small town by many standards, but it might be more accurate to call it a small city. All three of these schools are within ten-fifteen minutes of each other.

AlgertMan: And I bet they broke every rule in the book to win them. High school football is more crooked than college ball.

Sorry to burst your bubble but high school football is not like Varsity Blues.

I live in Muskegon county here in Michigan. The population for the whole county is about 170,000. In 2008, four high schools won football state championships. One was in Division 2, one in Division 5, one in Division 6 and one in Division 8. The four schools went a combined 55-1 with the one loss courtesy of one of the undefeated teams. I was at the state finals on Friday of Thanksgiving weekend and watched 3 of the teams win. It was surreal watching half of the championships being claimed by a county boasting 2% of the population.

Kyle Butler: They stole their uniforms from the LSU Tigers and their helmets from the Chicago Bears

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Steal from the best.

ZoltecRules: AlgertMan: And I bet they broke every rule in the book to win them. High school football is more crooked than college ball.

Sorry to burst your bubble but high school football is not like Varsity Blues.

Yep, in real high school football, most of the players aren't pushing 30.

But did any of the players score 4 tuchdowns in one game like that kid at Polk High?

O.K. To clear some confusion. Monroe/West Monroe isn't the smallest town in the world and technicly two towns (the twin cities), but impressive none the less. Thanks for the good comments. However all three schools are within 12 miles of each other. Good football here!

Man, that's gonna be a lot of bitter alcoholic gas station attendants for one county.

ZoltecRules: AlgertMan: And I bet they broke every rule in the book to win them. High school football is more crooked than college ball.

Sorry to burst your bubble but high school football is not like Varsity Blues.

Umm I guess you don't live in Texas?



/TMYK

I bet I hail from the smallest town in this thread. Canton, Kansas, population 748 (though to be fair we were up around 900 when I was growing up).

/Hot AND Cold water towers, biatches
//and yes it is as bad as it seemed on the Colbert Report

Approves

If your town has a 5A school, it's not a small town.

My "small town" of 40,000 (LOL) has 2 5A schools and a 3A school

BTW, being 15 minutes from each other in a drive is common in Louisiana. I live in Iberia Parish and the parish has 5 public high schools. 2 in New Iberia (Around 40k), about ~8 minutes northish of the city is the town of Loreauville with a high school that goes between 1A and 2A. About 15 minutes west of New Iberia is the town of Delcambre with their own high school, which moves between 1A an 2A. About 10 minutes east of New Iberia is the town of Jeanerette with its own 2A High School.

Then there is the big Catholic School, with a 3A sports program, 2 class C religious schools (Episcopal and Assembly Christian), and a baptist high school which has started playing some low level football.

The point of this drivel, I guess, is that in Louisiana schools haven't consolidated well. Each tiny municipality has to get their own school.

BTW, here are school sports classifications in Louisiana and how many schools play sports in those classifications.
5A-pop. over 1102 (63 schools)
4A- pop. b/t 647-1101 (61 schools)
3A- pop. b/t 419-646 (58 schools)
2A- pop. b/t 241-418 (67 schools)
1A- pop. Class B- non football schools with pop. b/t 89-240 (42 schools)
Class C- non football schools with pop.

Wait... West Monroe is in Louisiana?
I thought it was in Ar-Kansas.

JWNevin: I live in Monroe, LA, so it's cool to see this here.

Monroe is a small town by many standards, but it might be more accurate to call it a small city. All three of these schools are within ten-fifteen minutes of each other.

If somebody from Boston tries to pronounce Monroe properly their face goes into vapor lock.

eas81: Umm I guess you don't live in Texas?

Nope, rural Illinois. Most i ever got away with was a warning for speeding.

0Icky0: Subby doesn't know what a Parrish is.

As long as it isn't Parrish Hilton.

ZoltecRules: eas81: Umm I guess you don't live in Texas?

Nope, rural Illinois. Most i ever got away with was a warning for speeding.

Football in the south is mighty popular.

Louisiana has, really, 3 power teams. West Monroe in 5A, Evangel (Shreveport) in 2A, and John Curtis (New Orleans) in 2A. West Monroe is public and Evangel and John Curtis are private schools. The two privates can, conceivably, "recruit" players. As far as I have heard about WM, the school liked to hold back kids in middle school so their high school teams would play with players one year older than the norm across all grades.

I wouldn't say, though, that Louisiana football, on the whole, is "dirty". There's not enough consistency in winning with enough teams to say something like that. 3 programs out of ~300 programs doesn't indicate an epidemic.

I'm probably missing out naming Calvary Baptist in 2A as a power school. That, though, is a funny story because Calvary Baptist's program is, essentially, a FU to Evangel by their former head coach, who was leading his own congregation of followers which some of the leaders at Evangel did not like. When push came to shove the coach left Evangel and made Calvary Baptist into a power.

/former radio color commentator for HS football in Iberia parish.

The only place that is more of a shiathole than Monroe is West Monroe. Smells like crap because of a paper mill and produces some of the most terrible excuses for people I have ever met. Plus ULM sucks.

/LATECH
//St. Tammany Parish FTW!

albert71292: Personally, I wish West Monroe would go on a huge LOSING streak. The past several years, ALL the local news ever talks about is that schools football team. I get tired of hearing about it!

That would require that their football kids get through middle school on time.

Babwa Wawa: How does your town justify three high schools? Was there some sort of population bust, or an anticipated boom?

The 3A school could be private.

Babwa Wawa: dcducote: My "small town" of 40,000 (LOL) has 2 5A schools and a 3A school

Your town has one too many high schools, probably two too many. Our town of 30k could probably deal with two HS, but recently they voted to expand the current HS.

How does your town justify three high schools? Was there some sort of population bust, or an anticipated boom?

The 3A is a private Catholic school. Now, the reason why there are two 5A schools:
Well, until around 1998 the city had 2 schools, 1 for just Freshman and the other for the final 3 grades. Before that, the freshman high used to be the old "separate but equal" segregated black high school. So, the late 90s comes around and the parish school board feels that the senior high population (grades 10-12) was getting too big. Its population was ~1800 at that time. So in 1998 the school board made the freshman high into a 4 year school and, thus, two 5A schools of ~1100 students was born. Both schools have been 5A since the two school inception with the Catholic high being around a 2A or 3A program for the past 30 years.

So, not an anticipated boom or unexpected bust. Totally planned out.