14 minutes ago, Adrian Woj Burner said:

Is the rest of the states' HS basketball drama this insane? Or are NKY parents/fans/parents/coaches/dogs/cats/etc. just this wild? 

Yes. 

15 minutes ago, Adrian Woj Burner said:

Is the rest of the states' HS basketball drama this insane? Or are NKY parents/fans/parents/coaches/dogs/cats/etc. just this wild? 

9200 views.  Now, I’m not naive enough to think these are 9200 different people.  But 9200 is more than the population of several counties. 

3 hours ago, mcpapa said:

9200 views.  Now, I’m not naive enough to think these are 9200 different people.  But 9200 is more than the population of several counties. 

Including three in the 10th region. 

Sometimes people have to push their ego aside, get in the same room, air their differences and understand the most important decision is doing right by the student/athlete.

Unfortunately that doesn't always happen.

39 minutes ago, okie1 said:

Sometimes people have to push their ego aside, get in the same room, air their differences and understand the most important decision is doing right by the student/athlete.

Unfortunately that doesn't always happen.

That is because our world is full of people placed in particular positions who are in love with having power/control. No matter the situation, they are quick to remind you that they are in charge and often make an irrational decision due to their eagerness to abuse their power. 

1 minute ago, Adrian Woj Burner said:

That is because our world is full of people placed in particular positions who are in love with having power/control. No matter the situation, they are quick to remind you that they are in charge and often make an irrational decision due to their eagerness to abuse their power. 

This. 

2 hours ago, Adrian Woj Burner said:

Is the rest of the states' HS basketball drama this insane? Or are NKY parents/fans/parents/coaches/dogs/cats/etc. just this wild? 

I would say yes, and that drama is not limited to just basketball.

Cooper Admin. pulling for Highlands Sat. to say "I told you so"?

Here is a post from D Lamont Smith on Facebook.  Earlier in the year Mr. Smith posted some information about Cooper saying that he and his daughter were not happy at Cooper (paraphrased by me).  He just posted this.

20 minutes ago, theguru said:

Here is a post from D Lamont Smith on Facebook.  Earlier in the year Mr. Smith posted some information about Cooper saying that he and his daughter were not happy at Cooper (paraphrased by me).  He just posted this.

???????

For context, this is what D Lamont Smith posted on Facebook late last year:

I’ve been getting phone calls and text messages with questions of why my daughter is no longer a part of Cooper High School’s basketball team. So I’ll answer that question…

I wanna start by saying I am not a fan of NOT good people, especially to my daughters. This started when my daughter was in 8th grade, the “coach” fabricated a “custom criteria”, specifically for my daughter, to give excuses as to why she couldn’t get an “INVITE” (yep, gotta get invited) to OPEN gym, that either didn’t exist in previous years. Apparently he didn’t know that I knew this was something new, bc girls before her were not subjected to this “criteria”. This was an “unspoken” criteria (from what this “coach” told me)…how convenient? Thanks for letting “little ol’ me” in on your “secret handshake”. I’m not a fan of a “coach” who talks about my daughter to some of her teammates behind her back, but never talking to her. Not a fan of a man with “Mean Girl” ways talking about kids via text, and/or in person with other girls on the team, but never addressing his issues he has with them directly. I’m not sure how someone could think it’s okay being a “mean girl” as a grown man, let alone a “leader”/“coach” of young people.

It’s come to my attention that he told the team that my daughter was no longer on the team, bc I couldn’t follow guidelines. And said my daughter couldn’t follow guidelines either. Anybody who KNOWS me knows that Im a “rule follower”. I don’t even deviate from recipes from food I prepare. Here’s the thing, I’m not a fan of a “coach” who refuses a meeting with my daughter, when she initially requested her father be present. Then after she was denied such a meeting, and was adamant about wanting her father to be presence denied again. So I called a meeting, with him, with my daughter included (“protocol” per team, “Cooper Jaguars Coach-Player-Parent Communications” states “As a parent, if you would like to discuss your daughter’s academics, scheduling conflicts, or any area in which the staff can assist in a player’s growth, we strongly encourage you to reach out. If an issue needs to be discussed a parent and the player must both be present.”), I’m not a fan of a “coach” dodging a meeting with parents, bc he wasn’t pregamed with the context of the meeting (duh, the meeting will have the “context” in it). Essentially this guy didn’t want me to hear any of the [redacted] he was gonna feed my daughter, and point it out to her. Bottom line is “if his lips are moving, he’s lying”. He was exercising his privilege and this “superiority complex” that he has, by denying us the meeting that other parents and players have been given without question.

 After requesting a meeting I’m not a fan of a “coach” catching a “sucka attack” (through text), and jumps on the defensive, telling me “Based on my requests and the information you received at the parent meeting, we will not discuss (playing time, team/game strategy or other members of the team) with parents.” The ONE meeting in the 2 seasons that my daughter has been in this program, with him and his staff has never pertained to any of those, only the treatment of my daughter. My girls will earn they’re playing time/role on any team their on. I’m not a fan of people who draw conclusions and make assumptions and dodge issues. His behavior and attitude is that of being cowardly amongst men, and a “mean girl”/bully of teenage girls.

Shame on Cooper High AD for co-signing the lies about the “fabricated, custom, unspoken criteria”, and even doubling down on the lies after I presented him with the proof that I know they’re lies. Trying to smooth over lies with semantics is crazy to me. I MAY look slow, but I’m not. Newsflash…you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. After telling the AD and the “coach”, via text, that my daughter was “intimidated”, by the “coach” there was no suggestion of meeting with a parent/player and “coaches” and/or AD meeting. This guy was still was still pressing this meeting with my daughter and the same person she’s intimidated by. Not on my watch. I will ALWAYS put my best foot forward to protect my girl’s mental, emotional and physical health.

This so much more than this. This has been two years of lies, coverups, discrimination, etc. My daughter busted her [redacted] for the Cooper High School program for two seasons. In 8th grade starting freshman, and getting a lot of time on the regional champion jv team. 9th grade starting jv (‘23-‘24 Regional Runner-ups) AND starting freshman (‘23-‘24 Regional Champs)…playing two full games (no other kid in the program was playing two full games a night) on nights when both teams played. Doing two-a-days (freshman and JV/varsity practices) for an entire season. This kid thought two-a-days and two full games a night were normal. One of the top producers on both teams. Only to be lied to, and talked about by the “coach”.

I didn’t tell her anything about what was going on initially, bc I didn’t want to distract her, or have her be as disrespectful to the staff as they were to her. After a meeting with her “coaches” i realized that this wasn’t a good situation. I decided to tell her how she was being treated during the season, and how that wasn’t “normal”. The only reason she wanted to play at Cooper was bc she wanted to play with friends. But when your kid tells you that a coach or staff are making her hate the game it’s time to go.

After meeting with the Principal (Cooper High School Principal) for about 30mins, he completely ignored my concerns about how my daughter was being mischaracterized by a member of administration, mischaracterized and mistreated by the “coach”. Also how the AD supported the lies that were told to me. The principal even sent me an email response in my follow up with him, he “copied and pasted” a new version of one of the lies from the AD (further incriminating himself) using different wording, and further goes to my claim of discrimination. After I established with the principal via email, essentially, that I’m not stupid, and his lack of action were disappointing, I never heard from him again.

The the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion “investigator” for Boone Co Board of Education, who is caucasian, made a mockery of my claims of “Discrimination, lies, and mischaracterization of minorities” against the “coach”, AD, and Principal. She should be ashamed of herself for the “cover up”. Took her 42 days to complete the 30 day, per Boone Co “guidelines”,“investigation” (if that’s what she wants to call it). What’s sketchy is on Day 39 she sent me an email saying “Due to unforeseen circumstances and situations that were out of my control, I do not anticipate the report to be finalized until Thursday.” So After this email on day 39, it left me wondering what were the “unforeseen circumstances and situations that were out of my [her] control” Then she sent a bogus filled report that was completely contradictory from what she was telling me about my claims being serious. After providing her with text, emails, audio, and video supporting my claims, and her “finding of facts” was riddled with opinions and things that never happened. None of my claims were addressed in her “finding of facts”. It was as though they filed a claim against me.

When I submitted the response to the DEI “investigator’s” “finding of facts” (per the 10 days I had to respond) to the (at the time) “superintendent of (Boone Co) schools”, who had 10 days to respond, responded on day 13 of the 10 days he was allotted to review and respond, only AFTER I reached out on that 13th day via email, was when he responded with a letter through “snail mail”, dated that 13th day, agreeing with the DEI “Investigator”. Either he NEVER reviewed any of the documentation provided or just didn’t care.

 For “sweeping my claims under the rug”, my thoughts are, [redacted]…the “coach”, AD, Principal, DEI “Investigator”, and former superintendent don’t “CARE about black people (minorities)”…our concerns…how our kids are treated...don’t care to understand how to communicate with our kids…our kids experiences…etc. They live in a privileged world. This is the “Good Ol’ Boy Network” personified. EVERYBODY listed is part of the problem, definitely not the solution. As a minority, and a parent of a minority child, nobody heard us, nor did they care to hear us.

People who know me, or who have seen me at games know I don’t heckle officials, the other teams, I don’t talk to the our teams “coaches”, I only come support to our team, and I go home. For the “coach” to lie to me wasn’t necessary. I was never a “threat” to him personally, his team, his staff, etc. Well…they got the right one. I’m a present father of girls, and I will defend their rights to be treated equally and OUR name.

Bc I’m a “large” male, with an intimidating stature to some I feel the need to DOCUMENT interactions, so none of my actions or words can be misconstrued. That includes the individuals listed in this post. The scary part about it is these people are texting and emailing with such confidence, bc there have been no consequences to their actions.

Stay tuned…my claims of mistreatment of myself and my daughter have been well documented and will be presented…

Maybe Cooper does in fact have a culture problem...

45 minutes ago, theguru said:

For context, this is what D Lamont Smith posted on Facebook late last year:

I’ve been getting phone calls and text messages with questions of why my daughter is no longer a part of Cooper High School’s basketball team. So I’ll answer that question…

I wanna start by saying I am not a fan of NOT good people, especially to my daughters. This started when my daughter was in 8th grade, the “coach” fabricated a “custom criteria”, specifically for my daughter, to give excuses as to why she couldn’t get an “INVITE” (yep, gotta get invited) to OPEN gym, that either didn’t exist in previous years. Apparently he didn’t know that I knew this was something new, bc girls before her were not subjected to this “criteria”. This was an “unspoken” criteria (from what this “coach” told me)…how convenient? Thanks for letting “little ol’ me” in on your “secret handshake”. I’m not a fan of a “coach” who talks about my daughter to some of her teammates behind her back, but never talking to her. Not a fan of a man with “Mean Girl” ways talking about kids via text, and/or in person with other girls on the team, but never addressing his issues he has with them directly. I’m not sure how someone could think it’s okay being a “mean girl” as a grown man, let alone a “leader”/“coach” of young people.

It’s come to my attention that he told the team that my daughter was no longer on the team, bc I couldn’t follow guidelines. And said my daughter couldn’t follow guidelines either. Anybody who KNOWS me knows that I'm a “rule follower”. I don’t even deviate from recipes from food I prepare. Here’s the thing, I’m not a fan of a “coach” who refuses a meeting with my daughter, when she initially requested her father be present. Then after she was denied such a meeting, and was adamant about wanting her father to be presence denied again. So I called a meeting, with him, with my daughter included (“protocol” per team, “Cooper Jaguars Coach-Player-Parent Communications” states “As a parent, if you would like to discuss your daughter’s academics, scheduling conflicts, or any area in which the staff can assist in a player’s growth, we strongly encourage you to reach out. If an issue needs to be discussed a parent and the player must both be present.”), I’m not a fan of a “coach” dodging a meeting with parents, bc he wasn’t pregamed with the context of the meeting (duh, the meeting will have the “context” in it). Essentially this guy didn’t want me to hear any of the [redacted] he was gonna feed my daughter, and point it out to her. Bottom line is “if his lips are moving, he’s lying”.

He was exercising his privilege and this “superiority complex” that he has, by denying us the meeting that other parents and players have been given without question.
 After requesting a meeting I’m not a fan of a “coach” catching a “sucka attack” (through text), and jumps on the defensive, telling me “Based on my requests and the information you received at the parent meeting, we will not discuss (playing time, team/game strategy or other members of the team) with parents.” The ONE meeting in the 2 seasons that my daughter has been in this program, with him and his staff has never pertained to any of those, only the treatment of my daughter. My girls will earn they’re playing time/role on any team their on. I’m not a fan of people who draw conclusions and make assumptions and dodge issues. His behavior and attitude is that of being cowardly amongst men, and a “mean girl”/bully of teenage girls.

Shame on Cooper High AD for co-signing the lies about the “fabricated, custom, unspoken criteria”, and even doubling down on the lies after I presented him with the proof that I know they’re lies. Trying to smooth over lies with semantics is crazy to me. I MAY look slow, but I’m not. Newsflash…you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. After telling the AD and the “coach”, via text, that my daughter was “intimidated”, by the “coach” there was no suggestion of meeting with a parent/player and “coaches” and/or AD meeting. This guy was still was still pressing this meeting with my daughter and the same person she’s intimidated by. Not on my watch. I will ALWAYS put my best foot forward to protect my girl’s mental, emotional and physical health.

This so much more than this. This has been two years of lies, coverups, discrimination, etc. My daughter busted her [redacted] for the Cooper High School program for two seasons. In 8th grade starting freshman, and getting a lot of time on the regional champion jv team. 9th grade starting jv (‘23-‘24 Regional Runner-ups) AND starting freshman (‘23-‘24 Regional Champs)…playing two full games (no other kid in the program was playing two full games a night) on nights when both teams played. Doing two-a-days (freshman and JV/varsity practices) for an entire season. This kid thought two-a-days and two full games a night were normal. One of the top producers on both teams. Only to be lied to, and talked about by the “coach”.

I didn’t tell her anything about what was going on initially, bc I didn’t want to distract her, or have her be as disrespectful to the staff as they were to her. After a meeting with her “coaches” I realized that this wasn’t a good situation. I decided to tell her how she was being treated during the season, and how that wasn’t “normal”. The only reason she wanted to play at Cooper was bc she wanted to play with friends. But when your kid tells you that a coach or staff are making her hate the game it’s time to go.

After meeting with the Principal (Cooper High School Principal) for about 30mins, he completely ignored my concerns about how my daughter was being mischaracterized by a member of administration, mischaracterized and mistreated by the “coach”. Also how the AD supported the lies that were told to me. The principal even sent me an email response in my follow up with him, he “copied and pasted” a new version of one of the lies from the AD (further incriminating himself) using different wording, and further goes to my claim of discrimination. After I established with the principal via email, essentially, that I’m not stupid, and his lack of action were disappointing, I never heard from him again.

The the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion “investigator” for Boone Co Board of Education, who is caucasian, made a mockery of my claims of “Discrimination, lies, and mischaracterization of minorities” against the “coach”, AD, and Principal. She should be ashamed of herself for the “cover up”. Took her 42 days to complete the 30 day, per Boone Co “guidelines”,“investigation” (if that’s what she wants to call it). What’s sketchy is on Day 39 she sent me an email saying “Due to unforeseen circumstances and situations that were out of my control, I do not anticipate the report to be finalized until Thursday.” So After this email on day 39, it left me wondering what were the “unforeseen circumstances and situations that were out of my [her] control” Then she sent a bogus filled report that was completely contradictory from what she was telling me about my claims being serious. After providing her with text, emails, audio, and video supporting my claims, and her “finding of facts” was riddled with opinions and things that never happened. None of my claims were addressed in her “finding of facts”. It was as though they filed a claim against me.

When I submitted the response to the DEI “investigator’s” “finding of facts” (per the 10 days I had to respond) to the (at the time) “superintendent of (Boone Co) schools”, who had 10 days to respond, responded on day 13 of the 10 days he was allotted to review and respond, only AFTER I reached out on that 13th day via email, was when he responded with a letter through “snail mail”, dated that 13th day, agreeing with the DEI “Investigator”. Either he NEVER reviewed any of the documentation provided or just didn’t care.

 For “sweeping my claims under the rug”, my thoughts are, [redacted]…the “coach”, AD, Principal, DEI “Investigator”, and former superintendent don’t “CARE about black people (minorities)”…our concerns…how our kids are treated...don’t care to understand how to communicate with our kids…our kids experiences…etc. They live in a privileged world.
This is the “Good Ol’ Boy Network” personified. EVERYBODY listed is part of the problem, definitely not the solution. As a minority, and a parent of a minority child, nobody heard us, nor did they care to hear us.

People who know me, or who have seen me at games know I don’t heckle officials, the other teams, I don’t talk to the our teams “coaches”, I only come support to our team, and I go home. For the “coach” to lie to me wasn’t necessary. I was never a “threat” to him personally, his team, his staff, etc. Well…they got the right one. I’m a present father of girls, and I will defend their rights to be treated equally and OUR name.

Bc I’m a “large” male, with an intimidating stature to some I feel the need to DOCUMENT interactions, so none of my actions or words can be misconstrued. That includes the individuals listed in this post. The scary part about it is these people are texting and emailing with such confidence, bc there have been no consequences to their actions.

Stay tuned…my claims of mistreatment of myself and my daughter have been well documented and will be presented…

 

35 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

Maybe Cooper does in fact have a culture problem...

I feel like he should have put out a Facebook video explaining all of this something like Mr. Stanton did and he could have got his point across a lot more clear than what Mr. Stanton initially started with.

Seems like there is some truth behind the "culture" issues but the opposite of how the school is trying to make it seem. Maybe Mr. Stanton wasn't so crazy when saying this could get really messy. I would like to hear Drayden Pavey's family put something out there on his situation and what made him leave.

2 minutes ago, Honey Badger said:

Seems like there is some truth behind the "culture" issues but the opposite of how the school is trying to make it seem.

I have been kicking that thought around in my mind too.

Additionally, I think the school (school system) has a conflict of interest investigating these matters at Cooper. 

3 minutes ago, theguru said:

I have been kicking that thought around in my mind too.

Additionally, I think the school (school system) has a conflict of interest investigating these matters at Cooper. 

"Conflict of interest" has repeatedly popped into my head.