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Not if you read it. Where the students go will depend on where they went to school in the 7th and 8th grades. That's certainly not the status quo. People who previously had to make choices after grade 8 now have to make them after grade 6. If that adjustment is made, this proposal will not effect students or schools.

It seems like the more logical answer, while ensuring representation distributed throughout the state, would simply be to go back to the days when members could only serve one term and then another region had to come on. Seems like in those days, none of this stuff brewed or simmered so strongly.

I think you may be publicly indicting the wrong person. Last I checked, Tackett has nothing to do with basketball other than running the tournament. I think someone else in their office does basketball. But don't let the facts get in the way of your preaching. Maybe the rest of your examples should be factual. And the last audit I saw of the organization (and trust me, they are not without fault), their staff made less than in the local school districts around Lexington and were in the same retirement system. So getting your facts straight might make for better, more informed arguments.

You are correct if you read the posting of the proposal on the KHSAA web site. If a student attends a 8th grade and below program anywhere in the diocese of Louisville for example, and there is not a diocese high school in their county, then they are at a "terminal" school. That let's them go to 1) the county or public school based on their residence, or 2) any diocese high school unless the diocese itself further restricts that.

Very true. Channel 18 (and others) who weren't even at either meeting, got it dead wrong. It effects all schools (as written on the KHSAA web site) equally.

according to that program, looks like bo and Don Ringstaff of Livingston Central hold the record with 20. Sixteen would rank 6th

I sincerely hope you visit the Dairy displays at Rupp this week, so you get some cheese for your whine. It's simply the best format anywhere at this level.

Go back a few years to the old Virgie team that played, I think in 1981 at Rupp. Todd May and another one in his family, and three or four Newsomes I think. A play by play man's nightmare.

' You can make stats say about anything you want. How about this one. 41000 at the Indiana one class system finals one year, less than five years later, 15,000. But keep in mind, Indiana could risk change. The IHSAA gets money from all rounds of play (similar to our district and region), while here in Kentucky, the KHSAA only gets the finals. Pretty easy to see why many want to protect the KHSAA from the class interests. It would be financially devastating to all schools I feel, as 1) the KHSAA would lose money on the state compared to now and 2) they would then necessarily raid the district and region money in a means of keeping the funding strong for such programs as tennis, golf, cross country and track, which lose large sums.

Because no parents or others pursued it (other than some parents in Northern Kentucky). I ask again, are the other fifteen regions somehow out of step? And if you read the law, it is clear, and your rose colored glasses keep you from seeing it. It says simply if you over softball, it shall be the version played at NCAA scholarship schools. So, no fast pitch, no slow pitch either. It is plain and simple. It doesn't say offer, as the procrastinators to fast pitch want to say, it says "sponsor", which means to have the team. "The state board or its designated agency shall assure through promulgation of administrative regulations that if a secondary school sponsors or intends to sponsor an athletic activity or sport that is similar to a sport for which National Collegiate Athletic Association members offer an athletic scholarship, the school shall sponsor the athletic activity or sport for which a scholarship is offered. The administrative regulations shall specify which athletic activities are similar to sports for which National Collegiate Athletic Association members offer scholarships."

From what I have heard, it had nothing to do with money. Take a look at your trophy cases. THe last few years, the trophy looked like Virginia,not Kentucky. The state (or they told us at the rules clinics) expanded to four places (including medals) in all sports, so I am sure there had to be some offset somewhere. Besides, I concur with what most posters say, the shape of the hardware doesn't matter. Not a single school who gets one duplicates it for the kids that won it. So in a few years, it just gathers dusts while memories grow in our minds about the title we won, not the hardware we left behind in a trophy case. For my money, take a closer look at the old ones. That cheesy elevated hardware looked terrible, and then the last few years, I didn't get one shipped to me that wasn't broken with all those plastic figures.

Frankfort High

Looks good except that you are pulling Etown right out of the middle of Hardin County and going against geography. Adair was actually discussed to move when the last realignment was done, as I remember reading.

Same thing happened last realignment when the 15th region rep would have no part of just making the 15th region two districts. Staff discussed this with the board on multiple occasions since most people wanted to remain in their old "region" but district realignment was necessary. There just doesn't seem to be a big problem with having two districts in a region, top four go to regional tournament (works in football I believe), and keeps KHSAA from having to "force" people to move to balance things. But the Providence curve ball may force things to change in a lot of areas, or resurrect the talk of two district regions.

I think someone else has corrected you, but you do bye in now. But the difference is that you (if you end up in a three team district) have to play the other teams twice to seed you. It's not "drawing" into the region any longer, it is all based on regular season seeding.

Totally incorrect. The law was written plainly and simply. If you offer softball, you have to offer the version that scholarships are given for, and "Offer" doesn't simply mean a sign up sheet outside the men's restroom, it means go at it as aggressively as you "offer basketball" (see the legislation mandating girls basketball). Some schools in a particular three county area copped out to a definition of offer that let them defend their short sighted decisions. My point is that if 15 of the 16 regions go the point and read the law, it wasn't the KHSAA that was guilty of ignoring it in that last region. It was the schools, period.

IMO, You are Dead wrong. Why did 15 other regions get the message and one refuse to listen? The other 15 regions quickly began, at KHSAA's direction, to get their coaches to clinics, pitching and catching lessons began to spring up to help the girls, and the sport quickly developed. From what i observed, the direction was given (and frankly, is very very clear in the state law) to switch, and one area simply refused. And at that time, one member of the KHSAA Board had a daughter playing slow and convinced the other schools to simply ignore the law. Now, those schools that have waited 10 full years to listen to the mandate, will complain that they shouldn't be put into existing fast pitch districts because they aren't good enough yet. When Rep. Northrup passed the bill (yes, that is now Governor candidate Northrup), it was very clear the intent was to change from slow pitch to fast. Some people are just better than others at refusing to listen. And those adults who stonewalled now have their kids at a tremendous disadvantage just because they didn't want to be told what to do.

Doubt it. Have you noticed Rupp isn't available the usual boys' week and WKU wasn't on spring break the usual girls week. This appears to work better for all.

Just goes to show you that the old district championship game does in fact mean something.....

Funny thing is that the responses thus far to this poll almost mirror the real data. From what I see on KHSAA web site, about 42 or 43 seed, about 21 or 22 don't, just about the same vote. Obviously no clear conclusion. Interesting

There's no such rule. It's just common sense more than it is a rule. My guess is a smart lawyer thought they should try and protect themselves.

It looks like all but 7 are on the KHSAA web site now.

Pleasure Ridge Park, followed closely by Henderson County, Pulaski County, St. Henry and Boyd County, although Boyd could use a little work now. Those are the recent ones that seem to look the best.

To specifically answer your question, yes. Kentucky's Open Records Laws and its hundreds of interpretations attempt to draw a fine line between the "need to know" and "the desire to know". They keep things out of the public eye that clear are not anyone's business related to personnel, discipline, hiring, and many other categories. In this internet based world, everyone wants to know everything, but disclosure should and must be limited to those things for which there is a material reason to be disclosed, and certainly, information related to the assignment of extra duty assignments (not full employment) would fit in the category where it only satisfies some people's desire to know. I think it would be different, for example, in Georgia, where the coaches are hired first and foremost as coaches, which is completely different than the situation in Kentucky. Just an opinion.

Would have to look at their web site to be sure, but I was told through the mill that Pennsylvania is doing just what you espouse. They haven't even had playoffs that long, but were looking at a "super" class. However, they are now looking at just simply expanding classes to about 35 to 40 schools per class. And they play some pretty good football.