Football: More scariness from the public-vs.-private feud

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With Halloween just around the corner, I thought I’d bring up a topic that has more lives than Freddy Krueger, Jason and Elvira combined -- the ongoing feud regarding the competitive inequality between public and private schools.

This debate seems to rear its ugly head every football season, usually around Week 4 or 5 when certain teams realize they have no chance of challenging for a league or division title. It’s also about this same time when disgruntled alumni and parents start whining about how unfair everything is.

And as Eric Sondheimer pointed out, there doesn’t seem to be an easy solution.

If you haven’t already figured it out from my tone, I think all of this is being blown out of proportion. Let’s face it -- football and boys’ basketball are the only sports people seem to voice a concern about. Instituting systemwide changes to how prep sports are played is just going to create more headaches.

I think that if the CIF gets a little tougher on transfers (and there are many ways to approach the growing transfer problem) the whole inequality debate would lose a lot of steam.

But what do you think?

Oh, and the Elvira picture is nothing more than a sophomoric attempt to draw you to the blog. Then again, a portion of our readers probably are sophomores.

-- Austin Knoblauch

-- Image from Los Angeles Times archives