Once again, the KHSAA proves to be a total joke.

Once again, the KHSAA proves to be a total joke.

 

I don't understand this comment. What do you base this on? The rules are pretty clear, should Haddix be able to go by an entirely different set of rules than the other high school athletes in KY?

Once again, the KHSAA proves to be a total joke.

How so, by enforcing a rule that is very commonly known?

I ran varsity track for 5 years, and could have run 6 if I had gotten off my lazy but to do it in the 7th grade. I take it from the discussion that it is possible to compete at the varsity level 7 years, 6 thru 12.

 

Track - yes.

Football - no.

Track - yes.

Football - no.

 

Football, you are allowed to compete as an 8th grader (Tim Couch did) but as stated above you have the NEXT 4 years to compete. Unless you get a court injuction and get an injury year. (Bobby Leifew).

Football, you are allowed to compete as an 8th grader (Tim Couch did) but as stated above you have the NEXT 4 years to compete. Unless you get a court injuction and get an injury year. (Bobby Leifew).

 

Students are no longer allowed to participate in varsity football as 8th graders. I'm not sure what year the rule went into effect, but it was several years ago.

Once you graduate from the 8th grade you have four years (actually 8 semesters, but I'll use 4 years for simplicity) of high school eligibility. Haddix graduated from the 8th grade from the one school. Regardless of whether he repeated the 8th grade at another school, he still only has 4 years of eligibility. He "used" one year of that eligibility when he repeated the 8th grade at Scott Co. and the fact that he did not play any high school sports in the 8th grade at Scott does not effect the issue. He then had 3 years of high school eligibility remaining and those 3 years were used when he was a 9th, 10th and 11th grader at Scott Co. He's exhausted his eligibility even if he is still in compliance with the age requirement.

 

And to address the comment about Couch, By-law 4.1.d. says quite clearly that students below grade 9 are not permitted to play varsity football. The rule must have changed after Couch if he played varsity level football in the 8th grade. Soccer is the other sport that requires you to be a 9th grader to play varsity level sports. With wrestling, you must be in at least the 7th grade to wrestle on the varsity level.

^ thanks, I believe I remember something about that now. It's great though! I believe it may have changed because of Dennis Johnson (H-burg) because he was playing very early. (7th grade I think)

^ thanks, I believe I remember something about that now. It's great though! I believe it may have changed because of Dennis Johnson (H-burg) because he was playing very early. (7th grade I think)

 

DJohnson actually got on the field much earlier than 7th grade if I remember correctly.

DJohnson actually got on the field much earlier than 7th grade if I remember correctly.

 

He may have, I do remember it was very early and his dad was the Head Coach

He may have, I do remember it was very early and his dad was the Head Coach

 

He played in his first high school football game while in the 2ND grade.

^ thanks, I believe I remember something about that now. It's great though! I believe it may have changed because of Dennis Johnson (H-burg) because he was playing very early. (7th grade I think)

 

He and his brother were playing varsity football as 2nd and 3rd graders, if memory serves me. Their father, Alvis Johnson, was the coach.

What parent isn't going to say it was for academics?

 

The rule was clearly stated by the KHSAA several years ago in the commissioner's notes to schools. You can't repeat the eighth grade.

 

A basketball player for Middlesboro was ruled ineligible last year by the same rule.

 

You only have four years of eligibility once you are promoted from the eighth grade.

 

Well for one thing it wasn't for sports, because St. John's is a very small private school with 200 kids at the most. They don't have any major sports teams. I beleive they started to play in a basketball league with other small catholic schools around that same time, but there probally wasn't any major competition that would make the move for athletics purposes seem true.

Well for one thing it wasn't for sports, because St. John's is a very small private school with 200 kids at the most. They don't have any major sports teams. I beleive they started to play in a basketball league with other small catholic schools around that same time, but there probally wasn't any major competition that would make the move for athletics purposes seem true.

 

 

OK, I'll try to explain this one slowly.

 

The purpose of staying back in the eighth grade is not about the eighth grade and the team you are on at the time. The purpose is buying an extra year of high school eligibility for the four years that follow. The idea is that you gain maturity and increase your chances of being a superstar as a senior and perhaps signing a college scholarship.

I ran varsity track for 5 years, and could have run 6 if I had gotten off my lazy but to do it in the 7th grade. I take it from the discussion that it is possible to compete at the varsity level 7 years, 6 thru 12.

 

Actually, Danville had a girl compete in the state track meet as a fourth grader (she is a 6th grader this year). That makes 9 nine years. CRAZY.