[charlie22]

Typical spin. The board was tired of fighting it and it was pointless by then.

Nah, that's not true. Not at all. And I know. BOC could have easily turned down the request by Highlands. The appeal period had expired. Had the KHSAA said "no" it was over. Highlands wasn't going to sue over it. Board only agreed to overturn the sanctions after the KHSAA's in house legal counsel looked into the situation and determined that the KHSAA had acted improperly. Trust me on that. And trust me on this: there were several people on the BOC that would have loved to have told Highlands to go stick it. They certainly did not feel that overturning the sanctions were pointless. They weren't happy about it at all, but to their credit, they voted to do, what the Commissioner himself called "the right thing". The whole situation was a Charlie Foxtrot to begin with and was handled poorly by the KHSAA and the Mitchells' counsel in my opinion from the start. There had been several players transfer from CovCath with Mitchell and one the prior year from Simon Kenton to Highlands. The others were eligible. Some coaches in N. Ky were raising a stink. The BOC decided to try and stop the trend from continuing. Used Mitchell as the "example". Bad choice by them because they had a weak case. Way overreached. Then to make matters worse, they imposed the sanctions for playing an ineligible player during a time period that he was indeed eligible. Really bad BOC leadership back then; really bad. It's night and day different now and it's different to the better.