[BillSelf]

Mod closed down the other thread. Belfry fan posting about recruiting with a straight face cracks me TF up. Pikeville could play nothing but transfers for the next 50 years and never catch up to where Belfry is today.

Well you literally are right now in boys basketball? Lol

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From what I hear yes they will allow him to do both if this seasons ends well.  But hearing someone isn’t happy and is trying to make a push for it that has political ties.

If that’s the case I can speak for a few people that will not be happy, that completely takes away from time to prepare for the baseball season.

Pikeville has one transfer in the starting lineup and one that comes off the bench that transferred last year.  So they don’t have all transfers.

Pikeville has a ton of players from different HS and MS.

Fitzer (Adams MS/Prestonsburg)
Worrix (SV) 5th Year Senior
Sammons (Floyd County)
Hall (Floyd County)
Manns (Floyd County)

That's 5 of their top 10 probably. Including their 3 best!

Just because they didn't transfer in HS, doesn't mean they weren't recruited.

Paintsville would have a hard time fielding a team, especially a competitive one, without the Prestonsburg kids over the last few years (Fugates, Watts, etc)

Pikeville and Paintsville both better ride the wave of this year, because the cupboard gets bare quick after this season.

A transfer is only when a player enrolls in a different high school and then goes do a different  high school.  Samons enrolled as a freshman as did Fitzer so not a transfer.  Hall has been there since middle school.  Those aren’t transfers.  Hall  hasn’t been in the Floyd County school system since 5th grade if I’m not mistaken.  Those kids that are a Paintsville either enrolled has Freshman or in middle school.  Parents have a right to chose where they send their kids regardless of where they live.  I will never get mad at a parent for wanting to better their kid academically or athletically.  You have to always do what you think is right for your child.  

Also Paintsville, Pikeville and Belfry will always be fine athletically because they have winners in multiple sports.  Kids have been going to those schools for decades because of winning.  That isn’t going to ever stop.  When they have the academics and the best coaches.  Perfect combination.

Just stop. Those Prestonsburg kids won a Middle School Basketball State Title. Those other kids won elementary and middle school titles at their former schools/feeder programs.

So it's Free Agency if they're not in HS? Transfers and Recruiting only happens in HS?

Nobody is saying anything about "parents choice", so we can stop using that. Because obviously it's the parents choice to send them, otherwise they wouldn't be able to go.

Barring a slew of transfers, Paintsville will be in the bottom half of the region for the next few years. Pikeville as well, if Samons decides to redshirt at a college of his choice.

This is a basketball forum, not talking about anything other than basketball.