The KHSAA ruled in favor of South Oldham by a vote of 12-5 to get back four of their wins that were ruled as a forfeit halfway through last season. This change will occur soon and the scores will be listed as 30-0 over Waggner, 50-0 over Oldham County, 56-0 over North Oldham, and 28-0 over Nelson County. South's overall regular season record is 6-4. :banana: :dancingpa

Congrats, I suppose, next season should be the focus right now though. Outside of the KHSAA mandated forfeits South Oldham showed some considerable improvement last season. Do they look to build on that success and maybe usurp OCHS as the football power of the county?

The KHSAA ruled in favor of South Oldham by a vote of 12-5 to get back four of their wins that were ruled as a forfeit halfway through last season. This change will occur soon and the scores will be listed as 30-0 over Waggner, 50-0 over Oldham County, 56-0 over North Oldham, and 28-0 over Nelson County. South's overall regular season record is 6-4. :banana: :dancingpa

 

 

Glad to see the KHSAA right their previously wrong decision (well, sort of as explained below). I won't go into all the technical issues, but the sanctions were imposed because S. Oldham played a kid that was ineligible under some of S. Oldham's own rules. When S. Oldham played the kid, S. Oldham did not realize the kid was ineligible. After 5 games, they learned the kid had been ineligible and doing what it thought was the right thing, notified the KHSAA The following example not the case in the S. Oldham situation, but it would be like if a coach had a team rule that said a kid was not eligible to play that week if the kid had broken a team rule. The coach finds out after 5 games that a kid had broken a team rule the previous 5 straight weeks and should not have played during those 5 weeks (again under only S. Oldham's rules, not the KHSAA rules).

 

The KHSAA had ruled in the S. Oldham case that if you were ineligible under a school's own rules you were automatically ineligible under the KHSAA's rules (although there is nothing in the KHSAA's by laws to back that ruling up) which seems rather ludicrous to me particularly when you consider the example I gave in the prior paragraph. The KHSAA didn't totally change their position when they overturned the sanctions recently; they still think that if you are ineligible under a local rule you are automatically ineligible under the KHSAA rules (again, with no by law to back that position up), they just overturned the sanctions because I guess they felt they were too harsh.

 

I wish they would have done what I think is the right thing and totally overturn the finding that the kid was ineligible to play. If they want to try and amend the by laws to make a kid ineligible under the KHSAA rules if he in ineligible under local or team rules, have at it, but don't impose rulings not supported by the KHSAA's own by laws.