Both Euton, Jackson ineligible at Scott Co.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association has issued a "clarification" as to why it declared Chad Jackson and Dakotah Euton ineligible to play at Scott County high school.
Apparently, it was "because Euton's desire to attend Scott County -- based on public statements by his father, Clay -- was motivated in part to play basketball at the school, the waiver was denied."
Well. So what this is telling us is that all Mr. Euton had to do for his son to be eligible was to keep his mouth shut about his motivations. His real motivations don't matter, apparently, unless he tells the media about it.
Does anyone but me see anything wrong with this logically bankrupt and autocratic cesspool that is the KHSAA? Please tell me that it was some other reason, really, like an attempt by the Scott County coach to recruit Euton. Or that Euton's father lied about losing his job. Or that some unethical Scott County booster convinced Euton's parents to come to Scott County by promising them employment. Please tell me that the excuse given by the KHSAA is not the real reason, because if it is, I would like to see a full investigation into this organization beginning right now. Get the Jack Conway on the phone.
This is a sad state of affairs in Kentucky, and the lack of outrage is even more staggering. Where the heck are our legislators? The Herald-Leader has done yeoman's work exposing the incompetence of this organization. How 'bout a little good, old-fashioned resentment here?
This is wrong. It needs to be fixed.
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...isn’t it strange that Scott County gets so many high-profile transfers? And that a shit-ton of college football recruits come from Highlands?
While the rules and enforcement is dumb, at the same time, I don’t want 2 or 3 “powerhouse” high school athletic programs.
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by TheFakeGimelMartinez on Jun 19, 2008 10:16 AM EDT 0 recs
This should immediately go to the courts...
I’m fairly certain we’re still in America and people should have the right to choose where their kids go to school…
Matt Jones has a good write up on the issue
http://blog.kentuckysportsradio.com/?p=6387#comments
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by TrickyD26 on Jun 19, 2008 10:21 AM EDT 0 recs
Scott Co
They do turn out a lot of college basketball players BUT they are not necessarrily absolutley dominating their district or their region so I see no problem with it.
Their region is probably the toughest in Kentucky and while Scott Co does very well perenially many of the teams in their region are extrememly competitive with them. If they were crushing every one every year I could see a problem but they arent. They are just a very high quality program that competes well every year.
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by davw83 on Jun 19, 2008 10:41 AM EDT 0 recs
What a shame!
As I understand the situation from reading various media outlets, Mr Euton lost his job because the company he worked for closed down. He then finds another job in or around Scott County. If that is the case, then isn’t it logical that his family would move with him and that his kid would attend a local high school??? There does not seem to be any shananigans going on here and I can’t for the life of me understand how the KHSAA would rule against this kid’s right to play high school basketball in his county. He did not transfer just to transfer to a better school. His dad took another job because his last company shut down. Dakota will win this appeal because he is transferring for a legitimate reason and the KHSAA needs to save some face here. They are wrong and I suspect they know!
by SevenRings on Jun 19, 2008 10:48 AM EDT 0 recs
What is it about athletic organizations?
The KHSAA and NCAA both do things that, at best, can be described as puzzling and at worst as incomprehensibly stupid. I’ve seen stories about other athletic organizations in other states making similarly stupid rulings. Remember when the Ohio high school AA disqualified LeBron James just because he got a loan based on future earning potential?
I went to Scott County and graduated in 1998 (the year the boys won the State title) and while I can’t say that I’ve payed a great deal of attention to the sports programs since, I obviously take some interest anytime I read news about my old school. I do remember the series of high profile transfers basically started with Rick Jones and Scott Hundley right around that time.
As FGM noted, this is bit of a thorny issue. You don’t want to make it easy for high school coaches to bring in whomever they want, but as Matt Jones noted on KSR, the kids go to a public school and they have to be afforded the same opportunity to participate in school activities as any other student. I disagree with davw83 above in that I don’t think the difficulty of the region that SCHS plays in has any relevance as to whether the number transfers should be considered a problem or not. This is one instance where I think you have to look at each one individually instead of as a group.
People will move around the state, especially when it comes to finding work. Scott County has a lot of businesses (thank you Toyota!) and has experienced a lot of economic growth over the last 20 years so there has been a lot of jobs available. Where there are jobs available, you’re going to have people moving to fill them. Some of those people are going to have sons and daughters who are good athletes. There needs to be some common sense involved in understanding this.
In the end, it seems like there needs to be an overhaul or clarification on transferring within the state, and in cases where there is some actual evidence the transfer seems dubious, handle them on a case by case basis. Of course, that requires there be some intelligent, thoughtful people working for the KHSAA and that doesn’t look to be case right now.
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by JLeverenz on Jun 19, 2008 11:11 AM EDT 0 recs
What I meant
I think looking at the big picture can help determine whether or not the problem is out of hand and needs to be addressed in the first place. Based on competitive perfermance with other institutions in the area the number of transfers into Scott Co is not giving them an unfair advantage. This perceieved unfair advantage seems to be what the KHSAA is trying to address. Since that advantage doesnt really exist despite the number of tranfers into Scott Co I dont think its something the KHSAA needs to address at this time. Maybe it only makes sense in my head.
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by davw83 on Jun 19, 2008 12:10 PM EDT 0 recs
Okay
I understand your point better now (or at least I think I do). As I understand it, if the school has lots of players who transfer in, but they’re not consistently turning that into regional championships, then from a pragmatic standpoint it’s not really worth the time and effort to investigate or otherwise worry about it. You’re probably right about that, I was arguing the principle that success or lack of success should neither encourage nor discourage investigation if some wrong doing is suspected.
I think we probably both agree, we’re just mentioning different aspects of the situation.
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