Thunderstruck

In a perfect world maybe......the ways are many are varied in the art of defurring a feline.....translation....there is more than one way to skin a cat. I guess what I am trying to say is that the perception is that although what you are saying is true, it is not practiced.

What is fair is not always legal and what is legal is not always fair....that is life. Generally I think people want equal and of course equal does not mean fair either, nor does it mean legal, but you can make anything legal whether its fair or equal or not. Now, just how confusing is that? That is the battle in a nut shell between the "pubic" and "private" schools.

Yes it is a double standard now, and that is what they are fighting to keep. They say they don't recruit, but it is the life blood of most private schools. How else are you going to get students. But KHSAA rules state you can't recruit. Am I seeing double here? Now obviously they are sending letters to middle school kids in catholic schools but why do coaches attend certain games and talk to certain kids after those games, why not talk to the whole team? Because you don't want the whole team but you sure do want that good player. In the public schools those players automaticly go to the high school. But if a coach went to another middle school and talked to a kid people would raise the roof. But the privates can go to several middle schools and talk to several kids. So what you have many times is an all-star team.

Thruth be told they probably don't want to play you in either. I mean district play leads to the post season.

I agree that they can have bigger gates that way. But they will want to come back, heck they don't want to leave.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you are starting to come to the good side of the force. By your own admission the privates have advantages!!!!!!!!

You may be right, some don't understand. I understand fully and completely. Only when they are seperated and some of the smaller privates start making the same complaints as the publics are making now, then and only then will they understand. I never said it was completely fair, but it is equal and that is all it needs to be. Fair does not me equal. Nor does equal mean fair. That may be what this whole fight is about.

Once again you are seeing it as a punishment and it is not. "Privates" will have their own state championship. You will have a post season. Everything will be just as it is, with the exception that you will only be playing other private schools. Really it would open up some things for the privates such as bringing in and playing other high profile programs. You want good competition, well its out there, go and play it. Scheduling would be much easier, and the opportunity for big gates is even better.

I respectfully disagree. I believe that addressing this issue is long over due. although throwing the baby out with the bath water may not be the best solution, it may be the easiest. That way the "privates" can get together and "address the issue" and come back at a later date with a possible compromise, although I seriously doubt that would happens since they have not been willing to compromise in the past or presently on this matter.

Can you spell D-E-A-T-H P-E-N-A-L-T-Y Of course they would be sanctioned. AND the privates would be yelling the loudest.

I have never accused anyone of cheating and I don't think that is the issue here. BUT there are some advantages that the Private schools have. In fact I have gone out of my way to avoid using the "R" word.

Public school problems are not at issue here....it is the Public vs Private schools and the percieved advantages that privates have at issue. "Perception IS reality" author unknown. I can't help that.

What you see as a problem everyone else sees as a solution. You won't be penalized, you will get the same rights as everyone else. Privates will still have their own championship, as will the public schools. Everyone will be happy. Level playing fields, what could be more fair. Nobody is taking your religious beliefs away from you. Show me in any catholic doctrine where it is stated that you have god given rights to play against public schools. I am not saying that the pubic schools don't court players but because of certain advantages of being a catholic school or protostant scholl for that matter have, it makes it tougher on the public schools that don't have some of those advantages. Give it some time and MAYBE the KHSAA will correct some of those problems too.

It is easy, if you don't want to be banned changed what you do. Privates are the minority, and living in the greatest county in the world we do things democraticly, so if you don't want to be left out then change what you do, otherwise don't gripe and complain about the changes when they are voted in. I am sure those schools are doing something right but some are certianly do thing wrong and thus this is where the problem lies. The KHSAA refuses to addresss the problem, so the delegates will deal with it and nobody is going to be happy with the outcome, simply because the KHSAA refuses to ruffle feathers. Now the delegates are left to do the job of fixing the problem. I guess it is kind of like using a chain saw to clip a hang nail but the outcome will be the same. Problem solved. Is it the best way, probably not, but it will work.

I am glad you asked that question and there in lies the real problem..... 1. Obviously success breed success. When teams win kids want to go there. Now there is nothing the schools like Trinty and St.X can do about that but when there are no boundries to where they can get players (notice I did not use the "R" word or the word students) it presents problems when you a get a kids from central, northern (not so much because they have their own success) and southeastern Ky wanting to leave and go there. 2. I had two nephews who attended St. Margret Mary in Louisville. Both were talanted in a particuliar sport. Both were high courted (notice I did not use the "R" word again) by both St X and Trinty. Both attended Trinty, it was pretty clear what was going on. BTW both went on to play their sports at the D-1 level and one even won an NCAA championship ring. The other kids on the team were really not addressed although many did attend Trinty simply because of being Catholic, which of course is beyond the control of anyone too. Once again I don't know the answer but there is no doubt a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

I find it curios that the "private supportors" see nothing wrong with the system the way it stands now. It appears to me that behavior is sociopathic. Is it wrong that Trinty has a 4A enrollment and competes in 4A while having on average twice the number of boys as a small rural 4A school simply by virtue of being an all boy school. Is that a level playing field? I say not! Just like 1A schools have smaller talant pool to draw from than larger class schools, the rural 4A school has a smaller talant pool to draw from than that of Trinty or St. X. Is that fair? No, not really, when you look at the number boys in most 4A schools, that number is half the total enrollment. At Trinty the enrollment is all boys. That is not a level playing field. Obviously school like Lex Cath who is not a boys only school fights the same battle as the "pubic" schools, so they have an arguement too. Listen, I don't know the answer, I am way too dumb for that but there has to be something done to "level the playing field"