After school begins, the KHSAA does not allow girls to play in Exposure basketball tournaments. So, while our girls sit at home, girls from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, etc. play in Exposure tournaments in front of hundreds of college coaches and scouts.

 

Why? It has been this way for decades, says the KHSAA. Now, the staff at the KHSAA are not at fault for the rule, they just enforce it. So, if a Kentucky girl plays in an Exposure tournament, she would NOT be allowed to play high school basketball!

 

I have been told the only way to change this rule is to ask my daughter’s H. S. Athletic Director to submit an amendment to the KHSAA. If you would like this rule changed, please talk to your H. S. Athletic Director.

 

What do you think? Is this a good rule? Who does the rule benefit?

What KHSAA rule does this violate?

I assume Boys are not allowed to play in that time frame either?

What KHSAA rule does this violate?

ByLaw 8 for Football and Basketball.

 

Could also be some implications, for ByLaw 25 "Limitations of Season".

Nobody male or female may play on an "outside school team" during the season of the school team IF they are on the school team. So.....if you play on a school team you cannot play anywhere else until the season is over.

 

 

This rule applies to baseball and knothole and you have to wonder how many kids are violating this!

Each year all players go through tryouts. If the exposure camp is prior to the "season" of that particular sport, you are not officially a member of that team until the coach says you are, after tryouts. This is just conjecture but each year is a new year. Even if you played the year before the team may have had transfers, etc.. that would effect the player being on the team or playing time which would cause some to play AAU rather that HS team ball.

My daughter was invited to TN to attend a 1-day exposure event recently. 3 games, 1 day. It would have been a violation if she had attended.

 

From the KHSAA Handbook, from Bylaw 8:

Case-BL-8-7-Can a football or basketball player play in an outside league in football or basketball during the school year prior to the season?

Student-athletes in football and/or basketball may not participate in outside competition in any organized setting including camps, clinics, scrimmages or games, from the first day of school until after the last game of the season.

 

Key words...in any organized setting.

Nobody male or female may play on an "outside school team" during the season of the school team IF they are on the school team. So.....if you play on a school team you cannot play anywhere else until the season is over.

 

 

This rule applies to baseball and knothole and you have to wonder how many kids are violating this!

 

Does not apply to baseball, only basketball players (girls and boys) and football players. And the KHSAA answered you right, they didn't make this rule, the schools proposed it and voted it in.

Here's a question: If basketball players cannot play both, will we see better basketball players electing to play on elite teams and foregoing their participation on school teams?

Here's a question: If basketball players cannot play both, will we see better basketball players electing to play on elite teams and foregoing their participation on school teams?

 

 

 

RM, this is already happening in some small pockets of this state and a couple of others that have similar rules. Because college coaches are coaching their own teams "in season" and collegiate staffs are more limited with each NCAA legislative session, more and more recruiting and/or talent evaluation is being done outside the high school seasons. I fear some more folks may put two and two together and come to the conclusion you suggest.

There have been players in the past ruled ineligible for competing in these neighboring states "exposure" games.

This topic came up a few months ago when discussing AAU versus HS. Someone said they spoke to a couple of elite players that were definitely college bound…those particular players told her that they chose to play on a club team during the winter instead of HS so they can compete in the fall exposure events. This isn’t wide spread, but it will be as these players continue to get better and better. The first day of school makes absolutely no sense since HS ball doesn’t officially begin until mid-Oct. They should be able to compete anywhere/anytime until HS season begins and then have the honor of representing their HS. The player should never have to make a choice.

 

The feedback that I received from the KHSAA was “the percentage of players that will compete on the next level is not nearly high enough to make a rule change”. I was told that an elite AAU team may have 80% of their players with an ability to play on the college level, but the majority of the HS teams have a much lower percentage. I also said “our kids are not technically on the HS team until tryouts”…He said “true…but they will be ineligible for the upcoming HS season if they attend any organized event”. Ya just cannot seem to win these battles.

As a bit of curve in playing select/AAU vs high school & elite athletes that are being recruited at the college level, I know of a case involving another sport (soccer) that the athlete quit the high school team at the beginning of the season, was then offered the opportunity to play at the college level but could not accept the offer WITHOUT playing on the high school team the senior year. Back on the team now (after much negotiation & meeting the conditions for the return, such as sitting out of games until she has so many practices in, etc etc) The college is making the offer contingent on her playing on the high school team her final season. Anyone hear of any such scenarios involving basketball?

The rule came about with good intentions.

 

If they are not allowed to play in leagues and such before the season starts than as a basketball coach I cannot unofficially require them to play in a fall league or two or three and possibly not be able to play fall sports because of the commitment that I didn't require but strongly encouraged (read unofficially required) them to play in the fall.

 

It was passed, I believe, with this protection of the students in mind and long before such exposure camps came about.

The rule came about with good intentions.

 

If they are not allowed to play in leagues and such before the season starts than as a basketball coach I cannot unofficially require them to play in a fall league or two or three and possibly not be able to play fall sports because of the commitment that I didn't require but strongly encouraged (read unofficially required) them to play in the fall.

 

It was passed, I believe, with this protection of the students in mind and long before such exposure camps came about.

 

 

 

 

You're absolutely right and you make an even more important point. Here is yet another in a long, long list of rules made by the KHSAA (and even more proposed by the membership) to legislate to the masses for the transgressions of a very few.