Kentucky High School Basketball: The Zach Price Transfer

It looks like little brother is getting desperate in it’s recruiting. Nice piece.

a dollar to a donut they get away with it. Coach “Stanley Straight Arrow” at U of L will not be on any hit list for breaking rules. Is he a part of this scheme? I don’t know but if he is it would be advisable to get someone with a higher level of common sense to talk to the press.

And I don’t give hoot about what a nice young man he is. All five of the UK players drafted
were nice guys too. But they were trashed from the Canadian border to the tip of Texas and the East Coast to the West Coast

Of course there is no real bias in college athletics. That is unless the team colors are
blue and white and there is a wildcat somewhere on the uniform.

he’ll go play on the Freeway. LOL

They probably won’t start now. Honestly, this isn’t a big deal.

Bylaw 6 is unequivocal: Zach Price “shall be ineligible.” The only question is how Commissioner Tackett exercises his discretion on waiver.

But this appears to be solely a KHSAA issue. It’s difficult to see any implications for his college career, apart from not being able to compete his senior season at J’Town. Does anyone know why the NCAA should care about this story? Does it have anything to do with Zach’s amateur status or an impermissible benefit?

Editor note: “On its face, a player moving from Ohio to Louisville is a seemingly innocuous move, until one reads what the young man told the Louisville Courier-Journal about his families impending relocation.” Families is plural. Family’s is possessive.

to use a quote from my mother in law. Was J-town suggested by Rick? Oh absolutely! Probably something like " You know one of my former staff guys coaches here at a school called J-town, good school, nice area. And by the way, a couple other guys in that class are going there. But there are a lot of schools here in Louisville, …… ."

So absolutely there were shenanigans.
But I have a Junior in high school and there are a million things that come out of her mouth as fact or truth or whatever and her reasons or justifications have nothing to do with reality.
A parent is going to make that decision based on neighborhoods, quality of education,. home values, etc.
He may have influence with his parents, but that isn’t going to be the only qualifier.
So J-Town is easily explained away through other reasons.

In addition, this is not a typical in state or county transfer.
This is from out of state, so I wonder if some special set of rules and exceptions apply directly for this situation.

IF, Zach is moving in with a relative to “move” then I’d call BS. But on this alone, not too big of a deal. Because (and I know Central is a magnet school now, this is just an example) if I’m moving to a new state and city, and I go looking at houses, you bet your arse that I’m moving to J’town rather than a few blocks down from Central to enroll my kid.

Shady, yeah. Able to be explained away, absolutely.

But I’d be on UK’s side for this one.

The KHSAA bylaw is much similar to many NCAA rules. They sound good on paper, but are completely unenforceable. Of course we don’t want high school coaches recruiting players, but how can you prove they someone was recruited or prove someone’s reasoning for a decision?

Unless money changed hands or a HS coach set up the living arrangements (or similar misgivings); you won’t. (By the way, this isn’t a knock at Bledsoe; he’s innocent until proven guilty in my book. I honestly believe he was taken advantage of in the past, that people in the present are looking for handouts from a newly minted millionaire and I don’t anticipate any repercussions for him.)

Bottom line, the Price family decided to move to Louisville to be close to UofL. What HS Zach Price attends is irrelevant to that decision. From that point, it doesn’t matter if the family reviewed HS athletic programs. What is the family supposed to do? Draw an area HS name out of a hat and go there?

The KHSAA can’t put a restriction on a family from reviewing a HS’s athletic program. They can (and should) put restrictions on Kentucky High Schools from trying to lure players to come to their school for purely athletic reasons. In this case, I see the former not the latter.

There is a bona fide change in family residence. The family is moving from Ohio to Louisville.

It is clear that the decision for a bona fide change in residence and hence a change in schools predated the decision of which school Price would attend. Therefore, it is definitively NOT the case that “the change in schools [wa]s motivated in whole or part by a desire to participate in athletics at the new school.” In other words, although the decision of which school to attend was obviously motivated, at least in part, by the desire to participate in athletics at the new school, the earlier decision to change schools clearly was not motivated by such a desire, because the new school was not yet determined at that time.

In considering where to establish residence following a bona fide family move, many families consider the schools. For families without school-age children, or with grade school-age children, this is often an abstract consideration. For families with school-age children, particularly high school-age, it is often a very concrete consideration of the interests and abilities of the child in relation to the potential schools. When choosing a new school following a legitimate family move, a basketball player should not be required to ignore the state of the potential schools’ basketball programs any more than a trumpet player should be expected to ignore the band programs. This appears to be, and should be, permitted by the KHSAA.

Jay Arnette transfered from BCHS to Russell in the 80’s to escape the bench. Others transferred to Holy Family, Fairview, and Rose Hill for the same reasons. I think we really need to look at this in terms of private schools recruiting players; which swung the balance of power from Consolidated HS’s to Private schools. Since Jeffersonville is a PUBLIC school, this is a win for Public school athletic programs.

More power to him for his approach. If your family is going to move across state lines I think it’s smart of him to figure out which school best fits his needs. I’m somewhat surprised this blog even raises its eyebrows for something that may run counter to KHSAA bylaws. In the past this same organization has been drawn and quartered for some of its decisions and when it comes down to it, this argument (citing possible conflict with KHSAA) seems weak at best.
 
I think a better argument is why KHSAA has such a stupid bylaw in the first place. Sure it keeps in-state players from making short moves then concentrating in one school but it shouldn’t have any applicability to someone moving from out of state. By the way, Lakewood is outside Cleveland. Have you ever been to Cleveland? I’d be moving, too – for any reason.

and am wondering what I just stumbled upon…I’m off to elsewhere in the galaxy, looking for intelligent life…

I haven’t heard this much bickering since the last time I visited my in-laws.

a bottle of wine mabye?

lol he is on the verge of being erased as the state of ky best modern coach