This applies to all sports but we are closest to basketball season and this topic touches on basketball rumors, so I will place it in this thread.

 

The question is ... does the KHSAA care about player transfers any more?

 

Let me set the table first. I am only talking about players with varsity experience at one school moving to another. Players just entering high school or even who spent their freshman year at one school and moved to another have every right under the rules to change schools as long as they have no varsity experience.

 

I am more interested in players who have played varsity ball at one high school and move to another. It seems to me that the KHSAA has become very lenient with transfers. There are a number of players who have transferred in the past couple years and did not appear to meet any of the exceptions allowed yet were playing for a new school the very next season.

 

Are we headed down a slippery slope of making it easier to recruit players away from another school?

 

Should there be more transparency on transfers so everyone is clear on KHSAA policy?

 

Thoughts?

Can someone cite the actual policy language?

My guess is they simply do not have the staff to thoroughly examine each case.

Can someone cite the actual policy language?

 

http://khsaa.org/handbook/bylaws/bylaw6.pdf

 

The only part I can't find in the link is where it says "unless between Covington Holmes and Holy Cross."

I have no knowledge of numbers from around the state, but there have to be 10 or more player transfers that have occurred in N. Ky. in the last couple years, many involving talented players who made impact the next season at their new schools. To my knowledge the KHSAA has considered these cases and let the players move on as several of the players missed practices or games waiting to be cleared by the KHSAA. I would like to see the KHSAA make public their decisions in these cases. I don't believe they do this currently. This raises suspicions and is a negative for everyone involved - the KHSAA, the schools and the player. I understand that in some situations there may be personal information that should not be made public. But even then the KHSAA could say "Player X's family moved and exception XX applies".

This is an intersting article on the subject from last week:

 

Bill to stop 'rampant recruiting' in Ky. high school athletics faces long odds | Politics and Government | Kentucky.com

This is an intersting article on the subject from last week:

 

Bill to stop 'rampant recruiting' in Ky. high school athletics faces long odds | Politics and Government | Kentucky.com

 

Is that Ricky Skaggs?

Is that Ricky Skaggs?

 

Looks like him. I was thinking I posed the wrong article.

http://khsaa.org/handbook/bylaws/bylaw6.pdf

 

The only part I can't find in the link is where it says "unless between Covington Holmes and Holy Cross."

 

 

 

Thanks for the link. Continue reading through the part about "Why is there a transfer rule?". What a shame that none of these deterants work.

This is an intersting article on the subject from last week:

 

Bill to stop 'rampant recruiting' in Ky. high school athletics faces long odds | Politics and Government | Kentucky.com

 

Well done Oldbird! I had not seen that article or heard about the bill but it sure seems to answer the questions posed in this thread. The KHSAA seems to feel its hands are tied on this. After reading that, I would say if you want to go to another school, just roll on because there isn't anything the KHSAA feels they can do about it.

 

Is this an issue that the legislature needs to address? Or should kids be allowed to change schools at will?

This is an intersting article on the subject from last week:

 

Bill to stop 'rampant recruiting' in Ky. high school athletics faces long odds | Politics and Government | Kentucky.com

 

Glad to see somebody who's interested getting the government in the business of running high school sports.

 

Do we really need more politics in high school sports than the parents provide already?

I can think of a million other more important things our tax payers can pay our lawmakers to do!

Well done Oldbird! I had not seen that article or heard about the bill but it sure seems to answer the questions posed in this thread. The KHSAA seems to feel its hands are tied on this. After reading that, I would say if you want to go to another school, just roll on because there isn't anything the KHSAA feels they can do about it.

 

Is this an issue that the legislature needs to address? Or should kids be allowed to change schools at will?

 

 

I can tell you that after serving with Sen. Wilson, Rep. Hall and Rep. Damron an the athletics taskforce this past year that the legislatures are taking a strong look at this not only at the HS level but in the Middle School and youth levels as well. KDE has alot of influence on this issue both with the KHSAA and the legislatures.

 

To directly answer your question, yes this is something that legislatures should be looking at because these "transfers" also effect each schools funding from the state, test scores, and other achievement marks.

Honestly, I think it depends on the school. Depends on where the player is from or going to, also how big of a fuss the school wants to make, or how many "buddies" they have inside the KHSAA. As with most things I think it has a lot to with politics.

Honestly, I think it depends on the school. Depends on where the player is from or going to, also how big of a fuss the school wants to make, or how many "buddies" they have inside the KHSAA. As with most things I think it has a lot to with politics.

 

I don't think that is true, at least not now or the last couple years.

 

Question - has there been any transfer player denied eligibility at his new school in the past few years?

 

The only one I can think of is Dunn and he made the big mistake of openly saying he was transferring because of athletics. Anyone else denied?