This is a recent story from the Meade County Messenger regarding 2 football players who transferred at the beginning of the school year from North Hardin high school to Meade County high school. What are your thoughts?

https://www.themessengerky.com/news/two-meade-county-high-school-football-players-blocked-by-outdated-khsaa-rules/article_2606e257-cc57-4ec7-b364-37be52234a2f.html

Let them play football this is ignorance. 

Save me the "transferred out of North Hardin due to on-going violence problems" and "seeking an academic pathway not available to him at North Hardin" nonsense. If that was the case, they could've transferred after their freshman year and there wouldn't have been any issues. They wanted out to go play football at Meade County. Should they be able to do so? If they move to Meade County I don't see why not. If the school is so terrible and you don't wanna move, go to another Hardin county school, or even ETown.

I agree, they did not move to Meade County. If they wanted out of North Hardin, they could have transferred to another Hardin County school. 

They seem to be the only 2 students in the state that can't get eligible. I hate it for them, but agree they should sit out. My only disagreement with this situation is that KHSAA seems to be so inconsistent with who can be eligible and who cannot. 

Open enrollment is a joke.  Kids bounce around to 3 high schools in 4 years looking for a better chance to win.  If it was truly to escape a bad situation,  understandable,  but just to be on a better team is crap. 

I'm typically on the side of the kids b/c interscholastic sports are supposed to be about the kids, but I do agree that you do have to have some guidelines and rules and they must be administered fairly and consistently.  If you don't, it becomes pure chaos and things get out of control and you don't know where to draw the line.  I hope things work out for these two young men.

They got bad advice from someone who told them they would be cleared, no problem. The story didn't mention if they actually moved or not, however.  Does the sit out a year penalty apply if you actually change addresses? Or is that irregardless to the reason you transferred, and every transfer has to apply for a waiver?

 

The Great Crossing QB who transferred to Wofo like 2 weeks before the season started comes to mind. Who advised him that the starting QB for one team could leave that team, and start playing right away at a new school?? Yikes.

https://khsaa.org/common_documents/Forms/Due Process Forms/DP06-Transfer Form for US Residents (PDF).pdf

 

KHSAA transfer form link. 

Both students that transferred from North Hardin to Meade County HS still live in Hardin County.

1 hour ago, Hungover_in_Andover said:

They got bad advice from someone who told them they would be cleared, no problem. The story didn't mention if they actually moved or not, however.  Does the sit out a year penalty apply if you actually change addresses? Or is that irregardless to the reason you transferred, and every transfer has to apply for a waiver?

 

The Great Crossing QB who transferred to Wofo like 2 weeks before the season started comes to mind. Who advised him that the starting QB for one team could leave that team, and start playing right away at a new school?? Yikes.

To my knowledge, every transfer starts out ineligible if they have played varsity the year before. It is up to the student to explain the reason and if it is deemed valid the KHSAA grants an exception. Typically address changes are the most common way to almost always become eligible. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but even if the school they are leaving flags it as not a bonafide address change, the students can appeal it. If they claim for academic reasons, they don't have to move addresses, but have to prove the new place is better than their other options that would be more reasonable (other Hardin County Schools). If they get denied and try to change the reason, it gets heavily scrutinized. Most common reasons in KY that players get eligible is an address change, academic reasons, safety and bullying. We all know that some of these are farces, but it's about what the kid can prove reasonably.   

The consistency in ruling who is and is not eligible is the problem.  How many transfers are playing at some of the top teams in KY at the moment?  There's some high profile ones in NKY that's for sure.

Just now, New Colonel said:

The consistency in ruling who is and is not eligible is the problem.  How many transfers are playing at some of the top teams in KY at the moment?  There's some high profile ones in NKY that's for sure.

They may be better at advising the students on how best to fill out the paperwork. 

Here we go.........Students transfer inside of JCPS schools all the time no one sits out. In all county schools you have to have a change of residence.

-  Transfer to a private school anywhere in the state and no issues...completely different set of rules.

Privates should be separated just like in TN.

6 minutes ago, CardNation said:

Here we go.........Students transfer inside of JCPS schools all the time no one sits out. In all county schools you have to have a change of residence.

-  Transfer to a private school anywhere in the state and no issues...completely different set of rules.

Privates should be separated just like in TN.

You mean kicked out, because that is exactly what it would be in KY.