If anybody is really that interested in 2005 John Curtis football and Hurricane Katrina buy the book, it's a great read. 👇

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Hurricane-Season-Coach-Triumph-Katrina/dp/1416540709

I'll be damned if I debate Hurricane Katrina football with a bunch of forum losers.

Of course this forum doesn't watch games or read books. One of the dumbest forums on the internet on any subject.

Like they were the only team affected. Lol. Victim mentality. Insecurity at its finest.

Anyways. I wonder if it says somewhere in the book that a 2-8 garbage panhandle FL team gave them hell for 4 quarters!!!!!!!!

You have absolutely NO idea what you're even talking about.....
you are just flapping your gums and playing Mr Retard for points.

You failed!

You think I don't recall 2005 and what the boards were talking about? Curtis was taking in all of the kids that were displaced.  The joke was, it's even easier to transfer in to Curtis right now. I don't need a book that will sensationalize a team to make it seem like they overcame some difficult crap to win their crappy division.

You think I don't recall 2005 and what the boards were talking about? Curtis was taking in all of the kids that were displaced.  The joke was, it's even easier to transfer in to Curtis right now. I don't need a book that will sensationalize a team to make it seem like they overcame some difficult crap to win their crappy division.

Cajun loves to talk about the 2006 Curtis team that beat an overrated Hoover.  How they were so awesome, ask him to compare the 2005 and 2006 Curtis Roster.

Speaking of good reads

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2025/10/02/louisiana-the-worst-state-in-america-study-by-u-s-news-world-report/86472436007/

You think I don't recall 2005 and what the boards were talking about? Curtis was taking in all of the kids that were displaced.  The joke was, it's even easier to transfer in to Curtis right now. I don't need a book that will sensationalize a team to make it seem like they overcame some difficult crap to win their crappy division.

Now you're just lying again.

I don't have time for it.

Now you're just lying again.

I don't have time for it.

That's cause I'm right

That's cause I'm right

Curtis did have to push the start of the season back to September 30 which was not common among the other top Louisiana teams that season. Without paying to read a book that I'd guess is some vanity press it seems fair that there were some obstacles they experienced based on that.

AT THE SAME TIME, this was a team that had the nation's top junior recruit (Joe McKnight) in the backfield and was playing 2A ball. Yes they lost their opener to a good 5A team and scraped by a bad OOS team the next week but after that they didn't have a game decided by less than two scores so the "they were lucky to even be playing" seems exaggerated.

The online descriptions of the book paint it to be a celebration of an old-school educator-coach that doesn't do things the modern way and overcame obstacles to achieve unexpected greatness. So like I said, it's a vanity press.

Curtis did have to push the start of the season back to September 30 which was not common among the other top Louisiana teams that season. Without paying to read a book that I'd guess is some vanity press it seems fair that there were some obstacles they experienced based on that.

AT THE SAME TIME, this was a team that had the nation's top junior recruit (Joe McKnight) in the backfield and was playing 2A ball. Yes they lost their opener to a good 5A team and scraped by a bad OOS team the next week but after that they didn't have a game decided by less than two scores so the "they were lucky to even be playing" seems exaggerated.

The online descriptions of the book paint it to be a celebration of an old-school educator-coach that doesn't do things the modern way and overcame obstacles to achieve unexpected greatness. So like I said, it's a vanity press.

Joe McKnight started the year at Evangel Christian and played two games there before returning to John Curtis.
John Curtis had displaced players in 11 different states including California. Slowly, they started returning.

Curtis did pick up some transfers in 2006 when other city schools officially closed down. The LHSSA approved the transfers and just wanted to get kids in schools.

Most of the team that was able to hang around lived in FEMA trailers and homes without power. Food was also pretty scarce.

It's all the book..

It was not a very pleasant time in South Louisiana and really Louisiana.

Curtis did have to push the start of the season back to September 30 which was not common among the other top Louisiana teams that season. Without paying to read a book that I'd guess is some vanity press it seems fair that there were some obstacles they experienced based on that.

AT THE SAME TIME, this was a team that had the nation's top junior recruit (Joe McKnight) in the backfield and was playing 2A ball. Yes they lost their opener to a good 5A team and scraped by a bad OOS team the next week but after that they didn't have a game decided by less than two scores so the "they were lucky to even be playing" seems exaggerated.

The online descriptions of the book paint it to be a celebration of an old-school educator-coach that doesn't do things the modern way and overcame obstacles to achieve unexpected greatness. So like I said, it's a vanity press.

I gave you a like because at least you tried

East St John, who beat John Curtis Week 1 of that Hurricane Season picked up over 20 transfers from all over South Louisiana. Johnny Thiel, the starting John Curtis QB transferred there.

East St John is about 30 miles from NOLA.
They made a movie about their season. It was pretty good too.

The East St John video

People just really have NO idea how big Hurricane Katrina was and the impact it had in Louisiana and Mississippi. Simply put, nothing was really right for quite some time.

I guess the books and movies about it all don't compare to all the books and movie/s about DLS winning 151 high school football games in a row...... but nevertheless, Hurricane Katrina was very very real.
DLS winning 151 games in a row still doesn't seem quite real to me..... but they fluffed it pretty good especially in the movie...

My Rummel Raiders were only able to play 6 games in the Hurricane Season (2005). ..  which was really a blessing because some teams played 0 games and had their schools totally wiped off the map.

We beat up on some local teams that were in worse shape than we were and then got blown out in the 5A playoffs

https://www.maxpreps.com/la/metairie/archbishop-rummel-raiders/football/05-06/schedule/

Rummel is about 4 miles from John Curtis.

My Rummel Raiders were only able to play 6 games in the Hurricane Season (2005). ..  which was really a blessing because some teams played 0 games and had their schools totally wiped off the map.

We beat up on some local teams that were in worse shape than we were and then got blown out in the 5A playoffs

https://www.maxpreps.com/la/metairie/archbishop-rummel-raiders/football/05-06/schedule/

Rummel is about 4 miles from John Curtis.

Wow I clicked the link and it said there was only 17 Louisiana teams in the top 850! That's some knock off, fake brand of football!

People just really have NO idea how big Hurricane Katrina was and the impact it had in Louisiana and Mississippi. Simply put, nothing was really right for quite some time.

I guess the books and movies about it all don't compare to all the books and movie/s about DLS winning 151 high school football games in a row...... but nevertheless, Hurricane Katrina was very very real.
DLS winning 151 games in a row still doesn't seem quite real to me..... but they fluffed it pretty good especially in the movie...

I think people were more receptive to this before COVID when - even in the face of great uncertainty - the top teams came out on the other side unscathed. Obviously not an identical context or scale but generally speaking we have a good grasp of who the winners and losers would be in the event of a widespread catastrophe.