[masiello]

You expect Kasongo to at mature? He's being mentored by Brandon Bender and treated like he's a king. In his mind, he's the only player who needs to do well since its likely he wont be at Pikeville next year. He's already being shopped around to various prep schools.

Kasongo has had an attitude problem since his days at East Ridge. He was baby-ed, acted out, pulled a stunt against his host family which led to a court injunction allowing him to play. His high school career represents everything wrong with Kentucky high school basketball, primarily in the mountains. Please dont tell me that any schools in Louisville or Lexington pull this type of crap. Even parochial schools like Trinity only give partial financial aid, there isn't any of this year-by-year transferring that has taken over Eastern KY. Its a travesty. It seems like everybody in the mountains just wants to turn a blind eye since apparently its so easy to do. Lets be serious. I understand you want your team be to be good since its means a lot to your community. But it seems a little fishy that all these foreign transfers all associated with the same "accused handlers/runners" are coming to isolated communities in Eastern KY to play basketball.

Who is behind all this?