[plantmanky]

Thanks for sharing. Hopefully those that didn't attend won't be doing their annual complaining nicker:

I am curious about one thing. And that is why the khsaa was ever given any say over anything to do with middle school sports.
I remember this being talked about, but IMO, they screw up enough with high school teams.
Exactly what powers do they have with middle school?

The short version is that far too many schools were not doing things properly and self policing themselves to do things properly. KYMSFA realized early one that yes some schools (its members) wanted to do things properly, but there was still far too many that didnt. (thats just for football, in being on the taskforce in 2012 we found at how much worse other sports really were.)

In short they only way to get some basic guidelines, safety standards across the state was to get the the umbrella that all the schools fall under to oversee that, Kentucky Board of Education, (which defers its athletic management to the KHSAA, hence their involvement.)