[charlie22]

No, the Mitchel's along with their son, Mike did live in the apartment inside the school district of Highlands. Like another poster said they rented their home to another family member.

You are correct in that the Mitchells lived in Ft. Thomas. Heck the last I heard they were still living in Ft. Thomas. The Mitchells testified under oath in from of a judge that they had not gone back to their Florence home but twice to pick up possessions and never spent a night in their Florence home after they moved to Ft. Thomas (which was before Mitchell transferred to Highlands). The KHSAA has the opportunity to offer proof that the Mitchells were lieing, but offered nothing. I have to logically assume that the KHSAA had hired a private investigator (they usually do) to see if the Mitchells were still living in Florence but he evidently found no evidence that such was occurring, for if he had the KHSAA would have entered it into the record and presented such evidence to the Judge.

The Mitchells rented their Florence home to their son and a non-family member and gave them each an option to purchase the home at market value I was told. Frankly there was nothing in the KHSAA by law that would have prevented them from moving back to Florence after the son graduated. It was only after the KHSAA had declared the son ineligible and the court issued the ruling that the kid was eligible that the KHSAA amended the by law to require that the bona fide change of residence be permanent, which was a rather stupid amendment in my opinion. What's the KHSAA going to do, if 10 years after a player graduates the parents move back in their former home, retroactively declare the kid ineligible? Thank goodness that the prior KHSAA leadership and legal counsel are no longer around. Not the sharpest tools in the shed. If the KHSAA thought retaining the former home was proof that a move could not not bona fide, just amend the by law to state such instead of mickey mousing around the issue. That way everyone reading the by law would understand the ramifications of retaining the former home.