[charlie22]

The law was changed about 6 years ago. Prior to that a person not employed by the school system was only able to coach a what is considered a minor sport. When the law was changed to included all sports. The job has to be posted inside the school system first and an in system person will get the job over a non-system person.

It is not a KHSAA rule that a non school district employee can only be hired as a coach after the job has been posted and no employee wants the job. That may be a local school district rule, but it is not a KHSAA rule. The only KHSAA rule (which was actually mandated by the State Board of Education by the way) is that all non certified, non employee teacher coaches either 1. have graduated from an accredited high school and hold a provisional or standard teaching certificate; 2. have completed 64 semester hours of college credit; or 3 have graduated from an accredited high school and comply with the local school districts standards as a substitute teacher as approved by the Education Professional Standards Board.

And again, the KHSAA rules do not mandate that the school district first has to offer the job to its employees. The rule is By Law 27 and I'm reading it as I type this.