“We had a constitutional attorney that assisted in this process and it came down to if people want to know what is select and non select, when we dove in and established the three definitions that we did.” “The definition that we had, it was on a regular basis that people said ‘why isn’t this school select?’ Bonine said. “When we went through our bylaws, the book, in 2018, the only mention of select was in those respective sports in which we were having separate championships and the definition was such that it hadn’t been approved initially,” Bonine said.Īt that point, the “25 percent rule” was in place, the interpretation being that if 25 percent or more of your students came from outside of your attendance zone, your school would be classified as select. Why was their a need for such change now? “You learn to sit back and observe and not everything needs an immediate reaction,” Bonine said. What those playoffs look like and whether all schools classified as select by the Executive Committee remain such in the near future remains to be seen.īonine is in his eighth year on the job and he has absorbed much in his tenure. With as many as 55 percent of the schools in Louisiana now classified as select schools, the dynamic of the playoffs in the sports that have been split in the playoffs will look dramatically different.
LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonine spoke to the changes on All Access on NASH ICON, 106.1 FM Wednesday night. What they will be will not manifest themselves until September. Changes are coming in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association for the 2022-23 school year.
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