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The parochial schools get boosts from transfers, no doubt about that, Holy Cross included (they won a KHSAA state title only a few years ago).
Another example: Sacred Heart had already won 2 straight KHSAA state championships when suddenly the best middle school player to ever play in Shelby County shows up on their campus to enroll and join them her freshman year. What was the result? The 6’2 Phenom, who could probably start for a majority of D1 schools right now, led them in scoring and rebounding as a freshman and to a 3rd consecutive state championship. What luck!!! And she will lead them to another title this year, next year and the year after imo. She’s that good.
Of the 8 semifinalist in boys/girls at the All A Classic state tournament, 6 of the 8 schools were private parochial schools.
I don’t have a beef. It’s legal. And it sure has its advantages. But I don’t blame publics for “accepting” all transfers that help their programs.
To be honest about it, from what I hear Pikeville has an excellent school academically and also some of the best sports facilities of any school in Kentucky. In their school’s defense, it’s not so much recruiting by anyone as much the school is attractive to parents and players and simply stated the schools attractiveness to outsiders puts them in a light that the school recruits itself.