Biggest upset ever in LA High School football


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I don't think Peyton Manning ever won a state championship. During his time in High school Haynesville (near the Arkansas border) coached by legendary Alton "Red" Franklin was winning multiple championships.

Suge...

I don't think your former O-line coach is offensive coordinator anymore. I think Dan Shows hired Steve Ensminger away from Central High (BR) where he was head coach to become WM's offensive coordinator. You know your isht is serious when you can hire a team's head coach from his alma mater to be your offensive coordinator.

During Bradie James senior year, I went to see them play Catholic High (BR) in the playoffs. West Monroe had 45 seniors on the roster. I was mentioning that to a WM fan and he told me that half of them were 19 years old. That's a juco playing high school ball.
 
GSUpe, read gooddoctors last post. A lot of what he says, is the reason NO Public schools don't have success. There's no weight facilities, no stadiums, and some schools have to be bused to a place to practice.

The reason your small community schools have success, is because all the talent live in the same community, and a great part of them have been playing together, and going to the same schools all of their lives.

I look at the situation John McDonogh, John McDonogh 35, & Joseph S. Clark had before Clark burned down. You had 3 high schools in a 2 mile radius of each other along Esplanande avenue. How successful do you think those schools were dividing talent among those 3? Not to mention, St. Aug was basically right around the corner from John Mc, and when you throw in Kennedy taking students from John Mc, & Clark because those kids out of the St. Bernard could go to either school.

As for Higgins (which you could've left off this list), Ehret, & West Jeff, what have they won? None of them have played for a state title in the past 15 years, or even the semi-finals, so what's the point?

NOPS are competitive, but like the westbank schools you named, they haven't won squat, jack, nothing.......... In the early 80's, Ehret, and West Jeff was a classic match-up, with both of them being dominant teams throughout the state, until Shaw came along, and started stealing their players, the way W. Monroe is doing now up north.

Bruh, believe me when I tell you, the kids in New Orleans can play some football, it's evidenced by the players in the league from the area, but on a state scale, we couldn't, & they can't compete, because of the limited resources (facilities, & coaches) NOPS are faced with.

If you had one school Uptown, one school Downtown, one on the Lakefront, one in Algiers, and one in the East, I'm more than sure, one of those schools would be playing in the state championship every year. Unfortunately, that's not the case, you have a lot of schools in New Orleans, with mulitple districts, on different levels. With Jefferson Parish only having ONE district between their public schools, numbers alone won't allow this comparison to be fair .

Bigg, I'm pretty sure Newman won state with Peyton as a junior.

NICE
 



G.W. Carver beating West Monroe is huge!! West Monroe has one of the finest training facilities in high school football period. They even have a 1/4 size astro-turf practice field. If y'all remember, they even had a "red-shirt" system in place where parents, in colusion with school officials, would have promising 9th graders to miss 21 days from school so they would have to repeat the next year and have a chance to grow and develop. The courts finally ruled against their system.
 
STILL WORK TO DO

I,m not going to prolong this discussion, but until someone can tell me of a bigger upset in the history of LA football this one is one of the biggest.

Last year O.P Walker did upset John Curtis, but John Curtis wasn't ranked #1 in the state.

The times Picayune did published an article on 10/2. It can be found at NOLALIVE: sport archives.

www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/sportstory/carvr02.html
 
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