None that I'm aware of off-hand. I do know of a few at other schools.

 

If there are any, they did so in a completely ethical manner, under the rules of the KHSAA. These rules apply equally and fairly to all schools.

 

The only two athletes that I am aware of are Dillon Ruby (he stayed for only two years left for Moeller after his sophomore year) and Jordan Bridgett who stayed the 4 years. Out of all the thousands of kids that played football, those 2 amount to about .00001% of the football players at Highlands. Totally inconsequential.

And subsequently played sports?

 

Yes, and played sports.

94 , It goes both ways. Highlands kids also can attend Cincy schools. There was a great basketball player that left Highlands and is playing basketball at Moeller. The name escapes me at the moment.

 

So your point is moot.

94 , It goes both ways. Highlands kids also can attend Cincy schools. There was a great basketball player that left Highlands and is playing basketball at Moeller. The name escapes me at the moment.

 

So your point is moot.

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94 , It goes both ways. Highlands kids also can attend Cincy schools. There was a great basketball player that left Highlands and is playing basketball at Moeller. The name escapes me at the moment.

 

So your point is moot.

 

Roberts

94 , It goes both ways. Highlands kids also can attend Cincy schools. There was a great basketball player that left Highlands and is playing basketball at Moeller. The name escapes me at the moment.

 

So your point is moot.

 

Point is not moot because we are talking KY HS Athletics and not what Ohio should do.

 

Besides I thought Ohio had a rule from playing across the borders. Was the kid playing in Ohio illegally or did he move to Ohio?

Point is not moot because we are talking KY HS Athletics and not what Ohio should do.

 

Besides I thought Ohio had a rule from playing across the borders. Was the kid playing in Ohio illegally or did he move to Ohio?

 

Moved

Moved

 

Than that is different than a kid living in Ohio and playing in KY or vice versa.

Than that is different than a kid living in Ohio and playing in KY or vice versa.

 

I wish I had the Capt Obvious picture to insert here.

 

Bottom line, is that the whole arguement about only allowing Ky residents to participate in Ky sports is only logically supportable if you only allow Ky residents to attend Ky high schools. For an out of state resident to be able to compete in band competitions, debate competitions, compete for valedictorians spot but not in athletic competition, is not supportable. So unless and until the KDE makes the change to its rules, the KHSAA should not change its rules. And even then, it would be in probably 99% of the cases a meaningless change because I fervently believe, much like I believe in the idea that schools should be forced to close their enrollment to kids living in their district, is that all that would result in a rule change forcing students to residents of Ky in order to compete in athletics is people moving into the state or guardianship of kids being transferred to residents of Ky. All that for what? To stop probably less than 5 impact players per year (out of the thousands of athletes that play each year) from playing. Heck, as a Highlands supporter, I should be supporting your position as we rarely get out of state players (who in their right mind leaves Ohio schools to play athletics in Ky?) yet we do play schools that are more likely to get athletes from Indiana, WV and Tenn. But my belief that kids in the other states are not somehow genetically superior to Ky kids; my belief in parental rights to choose the best school for their kids regardless of what state its located in; and my belief that we should not enact rules to try and "remedy" every little wrong in America leads me to not support a ban of out of state athletes.

I wish I had the Capt Obvious picture to insert here.

 

Bottom line, is that the whole arguement about only allowing Ky residents to participate in Ky sports is only logically supportable if you only allow Ky residents to attend Ky high schools. For an out of state resident to be able to compete in band competitions, debate competitions, compete for valedictorians spot but not in athletic competition, is not supportable. So unless and until the KDE makes the change to its rules, the KHSAA should not change its rules. And even then, it would be in probably 99% of the cases a meaningless change because I fervently believe, much like I believe in the idea that schools should be forced to close their enrollment to kids living in their district, is that all that would result in a rule change forcing students to residents of Ky in order to compete in athletics is people moving into the state or guardianship of kids being transferred to residents of Ky. All that for what? To stop probably less than 5 impact players per year (out of the thousands of athletes that play each year) from playing. Heck, as a Highlands supporter, I should be supporting your position as we rarely get out of state players (who in their right mind leaves Ohio schools to play athletics in Ky?) yet we do play schools that are more likely to get athletes from Indiana, WV and Tenn. But my belief that kids in the other states are not somehow genetically superior to Ky kids; my belief in parental rights to choose the best school for their kids regardless of what state its located in; and my belief that we should not enact rules to try and "remedy" every little wrong in America leads me to not support a ban of out of state athletes.

 

I agree that if it happens it should come from the KDE, and I think it should happen. As you know, some have left Ohio to play in Kentucky. Of course, there have been many more from Indianna.

94 , It goes both ways. Highlands kids also can attend Cincy schools. There was a great basketball player that left Highlands and is playing basketball at Moeller. The name escapes me at the moment.

 

So your point is moot.

 

Didn't he move to Ohio? I don't believe Moeller is allowed to take out of state residends.

Didn't he move to Ohio? I don't believe Moeller is allowed to take out of state residends.

 

Moved

 

 

Yes, Leather answered the question.

Yes, Leather answered the question.

 

Missed it, sorry.

So you don't think that a kid who averaged 20 ppg as a sophomore at a public school wouldn't be recruited by a private school that was openly allowed to recruit?

 

I personally don't think that senario happens as often to begin with, unless I have just not been paying attn. But your point is actually irrelevant to what point I was trying to make. It may or may not happen, I don't know. I was just saying there are roughly 20 as many kids that go from private to public HS, vs the other way around. That is why I believe all the proposals put out in the past few years will only make the divide between the two even larger. These proposals will apply to publics just the same as privates, effecting a lot of those parochial school athletes.

I am not.

 

And with all of the attacks on KY schools and the CATS testing and the supposed inability of KY schools to prepare students for college, why in the world would a student out of state want to send their kid to a KY school if it wasn't for athletics?

 

Please tell me the name of a nationally recognized private HS school in Southern Indiana. :sleep: That is why kids from that area take a 10-15 minute car ride to school in KY. You only hear about the ones who play sports, but there are 10 non athletes for every athlete who make the same trip.

 

I can't speak for the rest of the state, but southern Indiana is just an extension of Louisville. They watch our TV stations, and hear our radio reports. We hear theirs too. Theres even a chance that they will be getting city water - from Lousiville!!! - in the not too distant future. We eat lunch in each others states. 25% of all Louisville workers do not even reside in our county, most of which come from IN. That grinds my gears that they are taking OUR money back to THEIR counties.

 

Is this what it gets down to? It seems petty to me. A kid should be able to go wherever he/she wants to get an education they are happy with. It makes the whole United States of America "thing" seem a little comical to me. There is nothing "United" about us at all.