re: LHSAA: West Monroe busted over player tampering

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some are, some aren't

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And how do you tell? What is it you look for that tells you it isn't for athletic reasons?

I talked to someone in Shreveport about Israel Mukuamu and his brother who transferred from South Carolina to Louisiana. His father was transferred to Barksdale air-force base in the military.

They chose Parkway. They live in that zone. That, is what I call a legitimate move. Moving, at most, 7 minutes away from your first school of choice and claiming it isn't for athletic reasons is about as ridiculous as it gets. Come on man, stop already. What are you driving at.

Yes, it is broke. The system is flat broke.

They have that rule (athletic reasons) in place because it is meant to be vague and opaque. It leaves the discretion with the LHSAA. They suck. They have shown to rule as they wish. That isn't how it should work. No rule should be subjective. It should be totally objective and clear. I've heard so many better rules that could solve this whole ordeal yet they refuse to hear any of it.

Yes, there will continue to be a split just because of issues just like this.

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you're wanting people to prove negatives. The rule is intentionally vague to help KIDS.

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I truly don't believe you actually believe that. If you do you are naive. I use statistics to drive home a decision. Screw emotions or negatives. If I am an investigator I would have time for neither. So I resort to numbers. Statistics clearly show that Division I athletes do not transfer from elite programs to podunk programs that may barely make the playoffs. That is a fact of math.

The day I see a top rated Division I athlete transfer from John Curtis to Northshore I'll let you know.

And, just so you know, I am not in disagreement with them attending wherever they wish to attend. I think you like to argue just for the sake of it. Sound like my ex-wife. She was great at that too.

The difference between you and I is very thin. You want what is best for the kids, so do I, but this rule takes that out of the kids and parents hands and allows it to be governed by the LHSAA. If you can't see how that is opposite of your own thinking I can't help you whatsoever. So, you better hope to God nothing behind the scenes is working against you. That is where I am driving at also. You think things take place in a vacuum? That there aren't people behind the scenes attempting to make things happen for a big time player either way?

I'm talking about cases where big time prospects leave small schools to franchise type schools. The numbers will always show it lopsided in that direction and that is all an investigator needs to know unless it is so dire of a circumstance that there was no way the kid could stay at his current school of choice. That is rare. Very rare, but does happen. Outliers. Study them.

LOL, good old LHSAA. All this should be so simple rather than so convoluted.

If I was in charge, a kid would be allowed to pick a school of first choice for athletics on day 1 of grade 9. Zoning, etc should be a school issue and not an LHSAA one. Go wherever you want that you can make work with the school boards, but choose wisely. Examine the 'social situation', transportation, etc.

After that, any transfer to any school that is not a bona fide move would mean sitting a year. Bona fide move would mean a true change in family situation that would have to be proveable AND would have to be greater than a certain distance, say 45 miles. Parent gets new job and you gotta move from Shreveport to Gonzalez? OK. But all this moving within a metro area? No way. You picked the school you started at, you stick with it.

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n Indiana if a kid transfers to another school and even if all the other requirements are met, they have to sit out a year if they attended and participated in any sporting event at another member school 364 days before.

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that's a bad solution. This isn't college where you can add an extra year to make up for the one you missed as a red shirt transfer.