[16thregionballer]

Boyd county filed the report from everything I read and been told. Not the dad.

The Boyd County administrators are hypocrites then with no self awareness.  Any Boyd team that has won in any sport over the past decade has had significant transfers.

If you think the dad is an idiot what would you call coach mays for calling out his own players?  Recruiting two kids from Boyd on audio behind closed doors??

Coach Jason Mays is an arrogant guy who wanted to be a big time college coach.  He failed.  He's a good high school coach, though, because he takes his job more seriously than 99% of his counterparts.  He's all about winning and promoting his players to colleges.  Why?  Because this promotes him.

So if khsaa sanctions ashland/mays then dad isn’t an idiot?? Result driven?

Correct.  Lavar went "all in" and it's looking like he failed.  Perhaps "idiot" isn't the right word.  He "miscalculated" how much influence Ashland has with the KHSAA.  Ashland is still pre-season number 1 in the region.  Coach Jason Mays is still employed and STILL getting transfers from Boyd and other area schools at the middle school level.  Boyd is left with a team whose only senior knows Lavar doesn't think he should play according to the recording.  It was also exposed on the recording that Coach Randy Anderson apparently hosts open gyms where psycho parents like Lavar are free to confront his boy's teammates with what he thinks of them and how they play.  Not the ideal program.  Completely result driven.

IMO it looks mays was playing checkers with a guy who plays chess. From the audio the dad never asked on time about bringing his kid to Ashland from what I heard. Even says no when mays asked 100x.

Coach Jason Mays is still producing movie trailer videos featuring none other than himself.  He has longtime state-wide respected UK broadcaster Dave Baker on video now announcing he's coming to Ashland to emcee Legends Night at the behest of his good buddy Coach Jason Mays.  If this is chess, it seems like Coach Jason Mays has flipped the board over on Lavar's head at this point.  Unless Pete Fraley has a secret KHSAA contact up his sleeve he's waiting to unveil, Coach Jason Mays is seemingly moving all the pieces in place to call "checkmate" when his Tomcats defeat Boyd and hold Lavar's boy to single digits again this season.

I hated our kids had to hear it!!

I agree!  It's good to see a couple of the kids Coach Jason Mays disparaged in the recording succeeding in other sports.  When one door closes, another opens.  Coach Jason Mays has made ALL boys sports at Ashland stronger by spreading out the athletic talent among sports.  Good for them.

In all reality, NONE of these local teams feasting on transfers are winning state titles anyway.  Other than the occasional "state title" in football, the sport that is by far the easiest to win a "state title" in due to being split into 6 classes, the population in our area doesn't lend itself to winning at the state level.  We don't have enough jobs or people.  The few "state titles" our area has seen in football have been due to a confluence of circumstances.  Ashland and Russell had some of their best teams ever in 2020 and 2005 while at the same time playing in weak classes where their main obstacle, namely Belfry in both cases, had a down year.

Since NONE of these teams are winning state titles and MOST of these teams make quick exits from state tournaments, though, it begs the question WHY all of the hullabaloo about recruiting and transfers?  Because someone was made to feel inferior to their rival school at some point in their lives and now they live to feel superior to those schools but for a moment in time.  Is it worth it?  Perhaps.  It's in the eye of the beholder.

I agree with one thing for sure. It’s in the eye of the beholder. You say why all the hullabaloo about recruiting/transfers. Seems like you are ok with it. Again, nothing wrong with a kid not liking his situation and moves into district. Legally transfer. However, Mays is recruiting and is so arrogant to say I’m above the bylaw. He has no bounds. Like thief he is stealing kids for other schools by promising them the world. All for what? He has finally been exposed for selling out the ashland kids and our community all for what??  So he can try to get back to the college ranks. Selling out ashland kids to bring in all these recruits. Even if he won a state title! At what cost? Our ashland kids forced out and sitting at home. The coach is ruining basketball here and needs to go. You have a guy on a video talking about discipline and hard work while he stands there weighing 320lbs!! Hypocritical on all fronts.