This question is for the crowd and not just directed at Ram.

 

In unban areas like NKY, Lexington, and Louisville could a student who lived with his parents in an apartment move durning a school year and be eligble for different sports. For example, in NKY, could a family move to say Ft. Mitchell in the fall play football for Beechwood, move to Covington in the winter and play basketball for Holmes, and move to Union in the spring and play baseball for Ryle? I haven't read the rulebook closely enough to know the answer. Under what basis would the student be not eligible?

 

Didnt the KHSAA add some wording to their transfer rule after the Mitchell case about owning a home vs an apartment?

Didnt the KHSAA add some wording to their transfer rule after the Mitchell case about owning a home vs an apartment?

 

Could be. And I know this it taking it to the extreme, but if a family didn't own a home to begin with and were only renting, could the student be eligible at multiple schools in the same year by moving from apartment complex to apartment complex?

I think the Legislature needs to work on the budget and not worry about athletics. If they are going to write policy, revamp the KHSAA.

I think the Legislature needs to work on the budget and not worry about athletics. If they are going to write policy, revamp the KHSAA.

 

The legislature has the statutory responsibility of approving/rejecting/modifying all policies that originate within the KHSAA. I think, and have for a long time, that the basic problem originates in the premise that parents appropriately have the authority/responsibility for whatever is in the best interests of their children under the age of 18. Thus, the parents will decide where their children are going to go to school for whatever reasons they want them there. The attempts by the membership of KHSAA delegate assembly to "socially engineer" this premise to suit what they perceive their specific needs/desires sounds great in the majority rule of the membership pool until it reaches the desk of those concerned with statutes and what questions pass legal responsibility. There's a lot more to this story, but I think this is the basic flaw in the delegate assembly's efforts to rewrite the participation structure of high school athletics in the state.

Didnt the KHSAA add some wording to their transfer rule after the Mitchell case about owning a home vs an apartment?

 

Not exactly. They added the word "permanent" to the by law. Thus the change of residence must be a permanent change of residence, although for the life of me, I don't know how that's determined by the KHSAA at the time. It was an attempt to try and deal with the situation where a family continues to own their home in the former district after they move, although there are plenty of legitimate reasons why someone would want to do so besides trying to skirt the transfer rule. With Mitchell the sole stated reason for denying eligibilty was the fact that they continued to own their home in Boone County while they rented an apartment in Ft. Thomas (and to the best of my knowledge still do, although I'm not sure of that anymore). What makes the Mitchell case very interesting in hindsight is that the KHSAA has over the year or so since Mitchell approved transfers in spite of the fact that the parents continued to own the homes in the former district after the transfer. I have to assume that the KHSAA finally woke up and realized there are many legit reasons to continue to own the former home after the transfer. Shame for Mitchell that they weren't so "enlightened" at the time. A whole lot of time, expense and anquish could have been avoided. Then again, this site would have had about a million less posts and a billion less hits.

I think the Legislature needs to work on the budget and not worry about athletics. If they are going to write policy, revamp the KHSAA.

 

They are--According to today's Herald-Leader they have told public schools to brace for a 7% reduction in state funds.

They are--According to today's Herald-Leader they have told public schools to brace for a 7% reduction in state funds.

 

While requiring a mandated pay raise for staff that they did not fund.

They are--According to today's Herald-Leader they have told public schools to brace for a 7% reduction in state funds.

 

 

LOL How silly of me! I think its a smokescreen for a bigger issue to get passed. As for this transfer situation, I think you could really get into a can of worms by doing that.

So, could you play for HS A tonight, start school at HS B on Wednesday, play for them on Friday night, go back to HS A on Monday and play for them the following week.

 

If you had a team that was #2 in the region, could a very talented player change schools in mid February without moving just solely for the purpose of improving the the #2 ranked team and give himself a better chance to play at state?

 

Even the professional sports does not give unrestricted free agency to all it's athletes.

 

 

It has happened before. Involved Girls BB and a very talented, high profile player.