Roscoe

division 3 bracket is a joke. the two top teams are St Charles and UHigh and they will play each other in their second game.

There is no world in which Newman should be seeded higher than either.

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How was the pizza? The best you ever had? Horrible? Somewhere in the middle?

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I tried Prince Street Pizza earlier this week. I had the Spicy Spring square. It was fine. It had a nice crispy crunch to it, but I didn’t find anything particularly spicy about it.

My daughter had the Prince Perfection, with marinara and mozzarella, along with a regular cheese slice. She really liked her slices.

I ate my one slice and stopped. Didn’t really feel the need to order anything else. If I were still in college or a young adult, I could definitely see myself putting away several slices after a night out.

But at this point in my life, eating this pizza reminded me a little of eating Cane’s. It fills you up, but afterward you just feel full and lethargic.

Overall, decent pizza, but nothing special about it. I tried it once, and I probably won’t be going back.

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Was this pretty good? I heard we were getting one in Baton Rouge.

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This is being reported in today’s Baton Rouge Business report. Full acress to the article is for subscribers only. So not sure of any other details.

how was the play not reviewed for targetting ?

Who is the judge in the 19th JDC who issued yesterday’s ruling?

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Looks like UHigh just added a 3 star junior RB from Lafayette Christian. The Instagram post says that makes five 3 star players on the roster. But I think it’s actually 7 now.

Anyone know if they are still planning to open a BR location?

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a lot of them are way bigger schools though

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That’s fair, and depth absolutely favors the bigger schools. But size alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

U-High has shown for years that it can play with those programs. Just look at their results v Catholic High in recent years.

The 2019 team was a small-school team that had 7-9 Division I signees, including a few SEC and ACC players, and you could make a case they were the best team in the state that year.

This year’s team isn’t loaded like that one, but they still have Knox Kiffin, another three-star in Emmanuel Moses, the LSU RB coach’s sonar WR, a highly regarded OL transfer from Mississippi, and a roster that’s been playing together since elementary and middle school because it’s a K-12 school. (Dunham does the same.)

Yes, the larger schools generally have more depth. No doubt. But when you have a college-level QB, college-level skill players, good coaching, and continuity, I don’t think being a smaller school automatically drops you to No. 30.

That’s really all I was saying.

Rivals released its 2026 preseason Louisiana high school football rankings. The top of the rankings looks about like most people would expect, with Edna Karr, St. Aug, and Catholic-BR in the top three spots.

What surprised me was seeing U-High at No. 30 and Dunham at No. 31.

I understand that both schools compete in smaller divisions and may not face the same week-to-week schedule as many of the Division I programs. But at some point, the results on the field and the actual talent on the roster should matter.

U-High won a state championship in 2021 and has reached the semifinals three times since then. The 2024 team probably would have won State in 2024 if they weren’t DQ’d right before the playoffs. They returned to the SF last year and lost 34–27 in overtime to eventual Div. II Select champ, SCC.

Again - I know they play in a smaller division, but they have shown they are able to compete with the larger schools every year. U-High beat Catholic 31–30 in 2023, during a season in which Catholic won the Division I Select championship, and beat them again in 2024.

Now U-High adds Lanes son - Knox Kiffin (a three-star quarterback) - along with Kevin Smith Jr., his longtime teammate and a receiver with major college offers. That is in addition to the returning players from a team that was one overtime possession away from the Dome last season. The recruiting board says they are adding the top HS recruit in Mississippi this year as well.

I just find it hard to believe there are 29 teams in Louisiana that should be ranked ahead of U-High entering the season.

Dunham at No. 31 may be even more difficult to understand. The Tigers are the defending Div. III Select state champions and return Elijah Haven, a top 3 quarterback in the entire country. With Haven leading Dunham’s wide-open offensive system, they are capable of scoring with almost anyone in the state.

I am not saying that either U-High or Dunham belongs in the top five. The larger schools generally have more depth, especially along the lines, and that matters over a full season. But both schools being outside the top 25 - and behind that many teams with far less recent postseason success - just seems odd.

To me, both look more like top-12 - 15 teams than No. 30 and No. 31.

I don’t have any kids at either school, but I do live in Baton Rouge and hear and follow the local sports teams. Am I overrating them because they are Baton Rouge-area programs, or are these two of the biggest misses in the preseason rankings?


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Lafayette -
Old Tyme
Joey’s
Chris’ PoBoy

New Iberia
Bon Creole

Broussard
BJs Poorboy

Baton Rouge:
Roberto’s - lunch only
Maxwells
Parrains