[Wildcat18]

Everyone Please stop saying this!!! There is not another school anywhere in the state where this goes on!!! This is way beyond recruiting!!! Please read the following infractions carefully!!!:please:

Falsifying records, or maintaining inaccurate records with regards to living arrangements of transferring student-athletes;

Allowing a staff member to lease housing to the family of a student-athlete without ever receiving payment;

Impermissible contact with multiple student-athletes with the intent to sway them to enroll at Cordia for the purpose of competing in athletics;

Providing free transportation to relocate a student from an out-of-state school;

Providing plane tickets on two separate occasions to a student-athlete so he could travel out-of-state;

Facilitating housing for a student-athlete at no cost to him or his family;

Providing money and clothes to student-athletes;

Conducting tryouts for non-enrolled students;

Paying the entire cost of education for two students on an F-1 exchange VISA to attend Cordia;

Providing housing to numerous students that participated on the boys’ basketball team, as well as housing for their families;

Allowing ineligible players to practice and compete in contests before they were cleared to participate;

Requiring players to attend practice prior to the official start date for preseason practice (October 15), and disciplining students who missed these practice sessions;

Holding “open gym” practices that were limited to the boys’ basketball team and thus mandatory, following the elimination from the postseason; and

Failing to properly monitor the coaching requirements for individuals coaching in the boys’ basketball program, including the obligation to complete the legislatively mandated Sports Safety Course. These violations included a 30-day period during the 2013-14 season when no member of the coaching staff met the requirements of Bylaw 25. -

You have to keep in mind that Cordia broke A LOT of rules. Do all other schools do 100% of what Cordia did? No. But I guarantee that other schools do at least 25% of what Cordia did. If they say they don't, they're lying to you. It does happen everywhere, just not to that extent. Every school breaks a rule. No one is flawless. The problem is that the KHSAA won't discipline every school that breaks a little recruiting rule because they wouldn't have anyone eligible to keep their monetary flow rolling. Simple math and sticking it to the big one to keep everyone else at bay. Cordia was the fall guy for what is essentially a way bigger problem.