[SocratesKy]

Consider this; a few months ago in an interview on Mytowntv Ashland's best player said that Coach Mays planted the idea of reclassifying as a senior. He said he initially thought it was crazy but after praying about it over time he changed his mind. Coach Mays and the counselors at the high school made it happen. Seems to me that if a coach was truly so obsessed with winning by recruiting top level players that he wouldn't encourage his best player to leave.

A person makes a statement that he/she knows is going public compared to what people do or say behind closed doors (I.e. like a conversation between two people over phone) is a different ballgame.  Politicians always make inspiring public statements, but don’t always make the most ethical decisions behind closed doors.
I guess my point is this is irrelevant if the recording spells out recruitment.

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Consider this; a few months ago in an interview on Mytowntv Ashland's best player said that Coach Mays planted the idea of reclassifying as a senior. He said he initially thought it was crazy but after praying about it over time he changed his mind. Coach Mays and the counselors at the high school made it happen. Seems to me that if a coach was truly so obsessed with winning by recruiting top level players that he wouldn't encourage his best player to leave.

A person makes a statement that he/she knows is going public compared to what people do or say behind closed doors (I.e. like a conversation between two people over phone) is a different ballgame.  Politicians always make inspiring public statements, but don’t always make the most ethical decisions behind closed doors.
I guess my point is this is irrelevant if the recording spells out recruitment.

I'm not even saying the coach is a bad guy.  This thread is about recruiting violations.  All good people sometimes do things that they should not, and I believe in forgiveness.  That is irrelevant to KHSAA enforcement.

Funny to me how none of the Ashland supporters will admit that (whether baited or not) that Coach Mays was dumb enough to make comments and say things that were OBVIOUSLY enough to force the school to self report. They want to focus on who called who, and saying Coach Mays did nothing wrong. You think the administration at Ashland would self report if Coach Mays did nothing wrong in this conversation?  How about be smart enough to hang up the phone when you know where the conversation is going.  Play with fire, get burned.

Yes, they would self report the incident and still judge that he didn’t do anything more wrong than talking to a caller, in this case a baiter. That’s pretty standard policy in these situations. His mistake was talking to the caller but there’s not any violations involved. Ashland has reviewed the recording and Coach Mays is moving on with the Tomcats summer schedule. As much as a few of you would like to paint a different picture, well….it ain’t happening.

Keep telling yourself that stuff.  Nobody’s outside of Ashland thinks that make any sense whatsoever.  Good luck to you guys anyway.