I’m not sure people realize there is NIL in KY hs sports.
Anyone watch High School football?
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My son is a sophomore and he gets NIL........................from me
South Warren hurt Warren Central more so than Greenwood in football. The other programs did put a hurt on Greenwood though.
Bowling Green over the years always seemed to end up with 1 or 2 high quality football players that should have been at Greenwood.
Other than Harvest Prep out of Columbus Ohio, Ashland has been crushing everyone they’ve played. In their six wins they’ve out scored their opponents 274-52. They haven’t played any top 20 teams, but they’re taking care of the job before them.
My cousin Chris announces a lot of the Ashland games on there.
No, South Warren took the county kids that live in the country who played for Greenwood before SW opened. Warren Central is a city school (not in the way BGHS is, but located more in the city), Greenwood and SW are more rural than WC. Most of the students who attend WC come from North / Central BG. South Warren had no bearing on taking any of their player pool. I had two sons who graduated from Greenwood, one played football. When SW opened, the # of football players dropped, not to mention the quality. I witnessed the drop in players with my own eyes, it had a BIG effect on Greenwoods program. Just look at the players who plays / played for SW, they would not have attended Warren Central.
Kids from South of Scottsville road, Alvaton, Woodburn, Plano, and Rockport, those parts of the county are the players I am talking about.
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I hear you.
The twins that are at UK now that came back from playing at a northeast boarding school got truck leases in Corbin to play there. I know Lexington Christian has an ‘nil group’. I’m sure private schools are putting it together to help offset costs of tuition
Some is Douglass some is just the general running of public schools in Fayette is not great for athletics or otherwise. Coaches don’t want to fool with the headaches, they don’t get much school community support etc for their sport and it’s a lot of the sillier red tape stuff they go through. There was a time several Lexington area schools were considered to be good schools but the only one ranked above average by KY education board now is Lafayette. Nowhere near the degree of a Danville’s issues but they’ve gotten bogged down by the administrations being more concerned with trivial stuff and semantics. LCA, Sayre have benefitted marginally as well from dissatisfaction of public schools. Catholic, for whatever reasons, has not. But I would argue the coaching at Douglass is not great. They’ve had a ton of talent there and seem to often underperform it. But they have the newer facilities and the educational programs that is most conducive to kids being accepted to attend there even living out of district
Maybe that's the case in KY, but in Georgia a few of the biggest abusers have recruiting coordinators. Rush Prospt, Jeremy Pruitt's mentor, met with boosters and told them he needed 100k for rent and moving expenses for a few spots that were weak. Several schools in Ga are known for their recruiting. The worst is building a new Stadium across the road from their current one at a cost of 60M and will have an 81 by 44 jumbothron and a 3500 square foot double sided scoreboard. Thats to make sure the visiting team knows they are losing. But they aren't recruiting either, nevermind that 90% of their football team comes in out of district and 30% is out of county. It's suppose to seat 12k, 80 suits with 12 seats with a food bar.
They aren't the only ones recruiting, but they are spending more than anyone else. It dominates the country club sports every year in their classification, 6A, most of the elite country club types attend private schools and compete with private schools. A few only have about 50 kids and only play basketball.
Sorry for the rant, but all this recruiting that goes on in Georgia just changes things for me.
Athletes at Kentucky private schools have to pay tuition like non athletes? My lady friend's granddaughter is a heck of an athlete and she attended a private school in Tenn on full scholarship for softball and basketball. They recruited her just like colleges recruit a kid. Non boarding student but 20k+ a year for tuition. It's a girl only school, but the "brother" male school hands out the free rides too.
Yeah hs sports in Ky isn’t near the level of southern states in any respects…interest, competitiveness, talent, etc. I wouldn’t compare anything between the two.
Yeah KY plays everyone together and they can’t offer aid. The private schools that care just find side ways to do it and with nil it makes it easy to help subsidize. TN rules are different. They have their own division for private schools and can offer aid. Not enough private schools in ky to have a decent division. TN does have a ‘bona fide’ move rule even for private schools where a family has to do a ‘legit move. They can’t do the Cutter Boley thing (a ky kid at uk) where they live out of town but find temp housing while attending the school. You actually have to sell a house and move to the new area to be eligible for transfer after they’ve started the eligibility clock. . The two boarding schools in Chattanooga, Baylor and McCallie aren’t subject to that rule so that’s why they’re starting to dominate the largest class private division. McCallie brings Canadian kids down.
I live in Ga. and don't know the exact numbers of private schools in TN, but I don't thing it's a big number, I could be wrong but I think it was about 20 in each division.
Georgia has quite a few more and does the classification bases on out of district students. Its a percentage and a student may cost as 1.5 student. That's being used in some city schools if they have a different system from the county. Georgia has 2 HS athletic organizations, one where almost 100% of the public schools are a members and another smaller organization called Georgia Independent High School Association, made up entirely of small private schools mostly in south GA. Every now and then it will have a P4 football player.
The opening of Douglass hurt Bryan Station short term, as they took 10+ starters from Bryan Station. However BS has recovered and has created an impressive pipeline of talent especially young talent, so much they played for the 6A championship last year. Henry Clay on the other hand has been destroyed by the opening of FD, their talent base of east Lexington is now being sent to BS and Douglass. I remember the old battles between BS and HC, which were wars with both teams being very talented, now BS has outscored HC 108-0 over the last two years. The only hope I see for HC moving forward s that KHSAA ends Douglass feeder program Carter G Woodson and redistricts Lexington.
There are only 25-30 total that are big enough to play football in ky. And there is a vast difference in size between some of them. Only a couple of schools in Louisville (st x and trinity) and covington catholic by cincinnati that have been relevant on a championship level over lengthier times. Some others are good for their class level but are not championships frequently types.
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Every year it's a fight to how the kids are counted, they all want to stay in smallest classification they can, then private dchool dominate. They win all the country club sports championships. One school only had 25 students, the shortest was was 6'2" up to a couple 7 footers, none were English seakers, wanted to plsy single A because of their numbers. In the largest classification, entire AAU teams transfer in to a school the AAU coach likes. It's just disappointing to me
I sat at every Lafayette home game for three seasons and it was like pulling teeth. Couldn’t win a game. Best game I saw there was watching Dane Key play when they played Douglas. Maybe won a couple.
FD probably doesn’t recruit, but they attract players from throughout Fayette County. Dane Key lived in Masterson Station and ended up at FD. That’s about as far away a school could be from his home.
Let me guess. Harpeth Hall? The brother school is MBA. Harpeth Hall tuition is $36,750 a year and MBA's is $37,250. Both are great schools but damn, that's hella tuition for high school.
Which school in GA is building the stadium. Don't really care the school but what area? I'm guessing somewhere around Metro Atlanta?
Buford, supposedly funding being led by Byfordgas company. I am not familiar with that company, don't know if it's a gasoline or propane or both. Use to be the biggest recruiters in the state, which they of course claimed they didn't recruit. But they seem to have lost that crown. Right now Milton is best team in the state, or appear to be.
