First things first - As I reported yesterday, the football proposals have been tabled and will go to committee for further review and study. This is a good move. There was too much contention and disagreement about the three-pronged attack on freedom, er, the three-pronged changes.

The 2008 Prep Classic will be Dec. 12-13 at the Superdome. Also, it's not official: the football proposals have been tabled.

Item 4: For soccer, baseball, softball and volleyball, if you forfeit two games, it's considered dropping the sports. This passed. As did Item 5,.

Item 24: This one pertains to basketball. Playoffs this year will be seeded by the coaches of the top 32 teams (the teams that make the playoffs). What will happen is that the top 32 teams will be decided, then the coaches will get together and rank who they think should No. 1 through No. 32. This one passed. They had to take a count, though.

Item 18: This one deals with ejections and penalties. After much discussion, this one was sent to committee. Most of the principals who spoke pointed out holes in the proposal.

And now Items 7-9 have been officially referred to committee. Persons on committee will be named next week.

Item 13: Stanley Gaudet of South Plaquemines high wants to get it allowable to use non-faculty coaches to coach basketball. "We don't what's going to happen," Gaudet said. "It's getting harder and harder to get teachers much less coaches." They took a standing vote. And it failed by a count of 137 to 124.

Item 29: This deals with how finances are split in playoff games.The New Orleans area schools pleaded for a split in receipts and costs because in NOLA, few schools own stadiums. Philip White, principal at McDonogh 35, argued that NOLA schools lose money the deeper they go into the playoffs. Assumption's principal argued that even though they own the stadium, they pay a note. This one failed pretty easily, and Jesuit and McDonogh 35 and Rummel and everyone else in this situation went down in flames.