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Well they put us in the Catholic League that a lot of us didn’t really want to be in… we appealed at the LHSAA twice but were denied both times. it does seem frustrating that we are where we are in our situation and this isn’t really an option, though I understand it would probably be a “forever” decision

We’re Chalmette, not John Curtis why you think I made this thread

I know Oak Grove beat Neville earlier this season, and Neville is in the nonselect semifinals, but the Catholic League teams are on another level. Karr is top 10 nationally ranked and Curtis and St. Aug maybe should be too, and they’re all in the select semifinals. Then you got Rummel, Brother Martin, Jesuit, and our rival Holy Cross… they’ve all had success recently too. Warren Easton had one of the best programs in the state for a decade and then went 0-14 in two years in the Catholic League so they wanted out. We’ve had winning seasons for a decade straight, made playoffs in all those years until this one, won 4 playoff games in the last five years, and still don’t want any of the Catholic League. Coaches don’t want it and our principal was at the meeting trying to put us in another district. We’d want to be in the Northshore district but it appears the LHSAA won’t make that move now that they have 8 teams.

I guess so, that’s Karr, Curtis, and St. Aug. they’d boat race anybody lol, LA or MS

Yeah I know it seems like sacrilege and yall can tell me I’m dumb but as a Chalmette, LA Owls fan I’m not liking the district the LHSAA might put us in for the 2026 and 2027 football seasons… we’re a non-select public school that might be going to the New Orleans Catholic League to face teams like nationally ranked Edna Karr, John Curtis, and St. Augustine. All of them are select Catholic and Christian schools that are known to recruit. We’ll know after the third reclassification meeting next week when all districts are finalized. Would MHSAA let us in if we applied? We’d be in 7A-4 to play MS Coast teams, a few of whom we’ve played before, and the travel would be all Interstate, not any longer than the worst travel in LA 5A.

Ancient bump, but Collins is now the head coach at Pearl River in Louisiana, where we call them “Chalmette North” because they tend to get coaches who have been with us first… you can make a case that he was the greatest head coach in the history of St Bernard Parish for what he did at two different schools… but he was a job-hopper. He left after my senior year, one of the greatest years in school history, for Tupelo after interviewing for Neville the year before. We were lucky to get both of his sons to come through, and his oldest was all-State twice. I liked him, and he raised good kids. EDIT- we found a game against a Louisiana team

Question for MS teams Did anyone over about 500 kids have a bye week on the October 13th week? That would be week 7 in LA but week 8 in MS Preferably we're looking for a larger South MS school who wants to play in the New Orleans suburbs