Hammond is the baseball coach at Henry Clay. Stout is the commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association. They are at odds over Stout's decision to sanction the Blue Devils' baseball program because the school has been slow to address the need for an on-campus softball field.
Equity is a noble endeavor, but sometimes noble endeavors dump common sense at the curb.
That seems to be the case here. Henry Clay's baseball team is not being allowed to take a spring break trip to Florida, and it is being prohibited from using a new structure at its home field that houses a concession stand, press box and bathrooms. One included a site plan, drawings and cost estimates for a softball field, which baseball boosters helped put together. But I didn't want to do that. I want the kids to play.