My son played at Highland 13-14. At that time they had 85 scholarships (tuition/books only). The in season roster was 63 players. The roster was 43 in State and 20 out state.
The game then was you recruited OL/DL in state and skill guys were out state HS or D1 bounce backs.
Initially they attempted to up out state limits but met resistance from kansas hs coaches. I am not sure what's transpired since then.
Tom
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I believe 20 out of state is still the norm? I couldn't remember what the rule was in 2000-2001, but I would anticipate that the max out of state scholarships was 20 at the time, but I could be wrong.
Yeah, the out of state scholarship max was 20 from the 1950's until 2017.
I wonder if another reasons to think about the decline of KS kids in the Junior College routes is that they don't specialize on football on a consistent basis, like how Texas/Florida HSAA rules are.
Another to consider is the location of the school. El Dorado is not too far off from Wichita, and it's a decent sized town/city, compared to Highland. :shrug:
No, it's because Kansas has a small population base. I doesn't make a bit of sense to require the conference to carry that many Kansans. There are 8 Jayhawk Conference schools, at 65 in state kids each, that's a minimum of 520 Kansas kids playing community college football each year. That doesn't count the kids in the state playing D1 and D2. That's a lot of 8 man lineman playing community college football, it's a wonder how Butler, Garden, and Hutch were ever good. When we made our run in the 90's on the back of the Jayhawk Conference; Kansas, a handful of Texas schools, and one school in Utah, and one in Idaho were the only places taking community college football seriously so the Jayhawk Conference, while only having 160 out of state players, had the best placements in the county, essentially all of them. This isn't the case anymore, when the southern schools, western schools, and Iowa got serious about community college football, Kansas had to change. It was a move to stay relevant, the civil rights angle some of them took was offensive. It wouldn't have been if they actually cared about that, but they definitely didn't care about the rights of African American students in other states.
