There is good news for Orleans Parish schools who play football.
New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced Monday that schools will be allowed to play football in the city and practice accordingly. The teams will be able to have contact as all other parishes do in Louisiana.
The bad news is that there will be only 250 people allowed to attend games, meaning that the schools, in many cases, will seek to play out of the parish to allow more fans to attend.
In all other parishes, the 25 percent number of attendees has been set, significantly more than 250 people.
The cost of renting a stadium, paying for officials, paying for security and medical (ambulance) personnel must be taken into account and that cost at Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans is significant.
Various athletic directors have told CrescentCitySports.com that the cost runs from $6,000 to $7,000 per game, all expenses told, at Gormley.
First year Holy Cross head coach Nick Saltaformaggio has been outspoken about the restrictions in Orleans Parish.
“I’m just happy to be going out and putting pads on and playing the game, coaching the game,” Saltaformaggio said.
Holy Cross was pro-active, securing other locations for its four home games prior to the latest announcement by the mayor.
“All of our games are outside of the parish right now except for the Jesuit game,” Saltaformagio said. “We open at Chalmette. We play Shaw at Memtsas. We have Easton at Joe Yenni. We have John Curtis either at Muss Bertolino or The Shrine on Airline. We’ll have Rummel at Yenni and we’ll have Brother Martin and St. Augustine at Memtsas. Hopefully, come playoff time, they will relax things but if they don’t, we’ll play outside of the parish.”
Brother Martin has four home games scheduled at Tad Gormley Stadium this season. Athletic director Mark Wisniewski understands the difficult dynamic currently in place.
“Tad Gormley Stadium has been good and we are doing everything we can to stay there,” Wisniewski said. “We are looking at other options in Jefferson Parish and they have been very good to offer availabilities and we are looking into it.”
Brother Martin has contingency plans to play Jesuit at Hoss Memstas Stadium and Rummel, as a home team, at Joe Yenni Stadium.
“I am hoping that the statutes will be relaxed so we can play home games at Gormley later in the season,” Wisniewski said.
Jesuit has four home games scheduled at Tad Gormley Stadium. The first home game scheduled is the traditional rivalry game with Holy Cross the weekend of Oct. 16-17.
Jesuit athletic director David Moreau says his school has kept its options open.
“We have not made any decision as of yet,” Moreau said. “We will decide on what to do soon. We are focusing on the Holy Cross game. We don’t play at home again until Halloween weekend and perhaps things will be relaxed by then. That is what we are hoping for, that there can be some increase in the attendance limitation, a bit more relaxed.”
While both Jesuit and Holy Cross prefer to play at Gormley, their traditional home stadium, other option are being considered. CCS has learned that Strawberry Stadium in Hammond is among the potential cites under consideration.
Karr coach Brice Brown has guided his Cougars to four consecutive state championships.
It costs $1,800 just to play at Behrman Stadium, the home facility for Landry and with all expenses, including ambulance and security, the cost of playing escalates to anywhere from $2,500 to $3,000 to play a game
there.
Karr is playing Warren Easton at Hoss Memtsas on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m.
“It’s kind of up in the air to see what phase we are in,” Brown said. “We hope to be able to have more people in the stands by then.”
McDonogh 35 plays its home games at Pan American Stadium and hopes to do so this year, according to coach Frank Daggs.
“I have Joe Yenni Stadium scheduled against Carver, Douglass, Sophie B. Wright and Booker T. Washington if we need to do so,” Daggs said. “We want to play in Orleans Parish. We just got the word that we can today and we are grateful for that. We would like that.”
Daggs and 35 are looking out for the benefit of the school and student-athletes.
“We hope it all works out but we are preparing for all possibilities so we can have a chance to play and hopefully have some supporters getting a chance to see us play,” Daggs said.
Many coaches and athletic directors quoted the price at Pan American as being $950 for day games, $1,150 for night games for rental at Pan American Stadium but the prices are likely going to go up without ambulance and security, among other expenses.
Carver is the first home game for McDonogh 35 on Oct. 10.
Victory Field at Joe Brown Stadium is the other primary facility housing high school games in New Orleans, with Carver and Abramson Sci Academy among those playing home games there. Howvever, Abramson is not playing this season.
The stark reality and realistic possibility is that the high school stadiums in Orleans Parish will largely be quiet, dark, vacant in the 2020 season.
McDonogh 35 scrimmages Brother Martin at Pan American Stadium at 5 p.m. Thursday.
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