What suprises me on this, is that a Danville player, by name was mentioned. This was a text message to (I assume) a friend and brought out in public for everyone to see. :eek:

 

In this day in age I am not surprised.

 

Question? Was this a situation where it was well known that he wanted to go to another school?

In this day in age I am not surprised.

 

Question? Was this a situation where it was well known that he wanted to go to another school?

 

From my understanding the transfer shocked both sides.

Hope it all works out for the kid, tough way to go into your senior year.

Reguardless why the kid moved into his dads house, it meets the requirements set by the KHSAA. Once again we have an agency that says it is there to help kids and they are putting it to a kid. The KHSAA amazes me some days. The kid is playing by their rules.

 

As for DHS, why would you want to have a kid on your team that doesn't want to be there. I know the concern that this could lead to a bunch more kids leaving. But if Dunn has to come back to play for you, it makes things difficult on the team.

 

I wish all parties involved the best.

I don't think there is any chance he will return to Danville to play football, maybe at this point the rules wouldn't allow that either. I don't think Coach Harp's motivation to sign a statement has anything to do with forcing him to come back to Danville. Not sure, I don't think we have all the information to make too many judgements. In addition sometimes newspapers can report things inaccurately.:idunno:

The comments section for the newspaper article are entertaining to say the least.

Not that it matters in regards to his eligibility, but just curious as to when Dunn started attending Danville schools?

Reguardless why the kid moved into his dads house, it meets the requirements set by the KHSAA.

 

No, not so fast. The reaon for the move is very much a part of the decision to allow the waiver or not.

 

In this type of case, a student has to meet one of the exceptions in Section 2 of Bylaw 6 AND not meet any of the specific restrictions in Section 3 of Bylaw 6 to be granted the waiver

Sec. 2) Discretionary Exceptions for Waiver

a) BONA FIDE CHANGE IN RESIDENCE - The period of ineligibility

may be waived if there has been a bona

fi

de change in residence

by the parents and student that precedes a student’s change of

schools.

For purposes of this bylaw, a bona

fi

de change of residence

means the moving of the permanent residence of the entire

family of the student and the student’s parents from one school

district or de

fi

ned school attendance area into another school

district or de

fi

ned school attendance area prior to a change in

enrollment of the student. A student who becomes emancipated

does not have a bona

fi

de change of residence by virtue of his

or her emancipation and change of residence for purposes of

this bylaw.

b) DIVORCE - The KHSAA shall not recognize a legal separation

as grounds for waiver of the provisions of this bylaw. The period

of ineligibility may be waived in the event of a dissolution of

marriage (i.e. a

fi

nal and legally binding divorce decree from

a court of competent jurisdiction) of the parents and a change

in the residence of the student pursuant to a court order

granting custody of the child to one of the parents with whom

the student shall reside. In the event joint custody is awarded

to both parents, for purposes of this bylaw, the student shall

initially be eligible where either parent resides.

The eligibility of a student may be restored one-time if, after

establishing eligibility and complying with the initial court

order granting joint custody, a student relocates to permanently

reside with the other custodial parent. The grant of eligibility

shall only apply to the member school in which the residence

of the custodial parent is located. After this one time move by

the student to the other custodial parent all subsequent moves

between parents shall require a period of ineligibility of one

year.

c) CHANGE OF CUSTODY - The KHSAA shall not recognize

guardianship or similar arrangements made, for purposes

of this bylaw. The period of ineligibility may be waived if it is

shown that custody of the student has been taken from one or

both parents and given to the other parent or a third person

by a court of competent jurisdiction and under circumstances

indicating: (1) the parent(s) are un

fi

t or (2) the court

fi

nds that

the health and welfare of the student would be better served by

the change in custody.

 

Sec. 3) Speci

fi

c Restrictions Resulting in Denial of Waiver

Satisfying of one of the exceptions (a through i) shall not be

considered valid and a waiver of the period of ineligibility shall

not be granted:

a) If the change in schools is to nullify or circumvent the actions of

representatives or rules of the previous school or if the student

left the sending school under penalty which would have resulted

in the student’s ineligibility at the sending school;

b) If the satisfying of one of the exceptions occurs after the

enrollment at the new school;

c) If the change in schools is motivated in whole or part by a desire

to participate in athletics at the new school;

d) If the satisfying of one of the exceptions is used or manipulated

for the purpose of gaining athletic eligibility;

e) If the satisfying of one of the exceptions by the student and

the parent(s) does not reasonably precipitate a transfer to the

new school.

I'm not familiar with this case, so I ask, did any of the three exceptions above apply to this transfer? (I left off a couple of exceptoins that I knew didn't apply) Did the transfer meet any of the specific restrictions that automatically result in a denial of waiver?

Here is a link to Bylaw 6:

 

http://www.khsaa.org/handbook/bylaws/bylaw6.pdf

 

Bottom line, if it is determined the move was for athletic purposes, it trumps all other exceptions and eligibility is denied. It sounds to me like that is what the decision is here.

Not that it matters in regards to his eligibility, but just curious as to when Dunn started attending Danville schools?

 

I believe his parents are from Garrard County (I know dad is, I think mom is), but as far as I know he's always been in the Danville system.

I don't think there is any chance he will return to Danville to play football, maybe at this point the rules wouldn't allow that either. I don't think Coach Harp's motivation to sign a statement has anything to do with forcing him to come back to Danville. Not sure, I don't think we have all the information to make too many judgements. In addition sometimes newspapers can report things inaccurately.:idunno:

 

I hope for the kid sake he ends back at Danville. I would hate to see a kid with this type of skill and talent miss out. We all have to remember he is a kid.

 

BTW if he still wants to move I have a nice apartment for rent in the Frankfort school district................LOL!

From my understanding the transfer shocked both sides.

 

I would say that both sides were shocked he REALLY DID IT, but not that he wanted to?

I believe his parents are from Garrard County (I know dad is, I think mom is), but as far as I know he's always been in the Danville system.

 

Yea his dad is from Garrard but I believe his Mom is from Lincoln Co.

I think young Will went to Stanford elementary.I could be wrong.:idunno:

Yea his dad is from Garrard but I believe his Mom is from Lincoln Co.

I think young Will went to Stanford elementary.I could be wrong.:idunno:

 

Which is Danville schools or Lincoln County?

Yea his dad is from Garrard but I believe his Mom is from Lincoln Co.

I think young Will went to Stanford elementary.I could be wrong.:idunno:

 

Will was in Stanford Elementary.

Which is Danville schools or Lincoln County?

 

Stanford is in Lincoln Co.