[Stardust]

^ KHSAA is a member organization. Unfortunately, there is no way around it and that is the case at all levels of sports.

NCAA is in existence at the behest of the colleges and the colleges dictate the rules

NFL is in existence are the behest of the owners of each team

None of these organizations would be in existence if it was not for the teams or schools. Because the teams cannot trust each other to make the rules, these entities are in existence basically to mediate on behalf of all teams. It's an annual debate every year when all you hear about is that KHSAA or the NCAA is all about making money! Well, they are! But the money does not go to them, it goes to the schools that put them in charge in the first place. The rules that every get's hung up about, it created and dictated at the school level, thus KHSAA could never dictate something that all the school must vote in! This rule in particular has been debated heavily for the past few years. It is huge for baseball and something that we have been pushing for heavily. It took the rest of the schools and sports to buy-in before this finally became a rule - but it's not a KHSAA rule, but a rule that the schools dictated.