 As first reported by the Appalachian News Express, the lawsuit filed in Pike Circuit Court alleges that former Pike Central assistant principal and boys' basketball coach Everett Keith May lost his job after he reported alleged illegal activities surrounding some of the basketball program's players. According to court documents, May alleges that he was the victim of reprisal after reporting violations of Kentucky High School Athletic Association bylaws. Court documents said May reported that violations relative to, among other things, improper games, recruiting violations and attendance policy violations had occurred. Among the reprisal allegedly suffered by May was being fired as boys' basketball coach in 2016, being fired as track coach in 2017, and just a month later being fired as assistant principal. According to the News Express report, May's allegations of bylaws violations center around basketball players, some international, recruited by and supplied to Pike Central by David Clevenger of Kentucky B.C.I., a basketball organization based in Varney in Pike County. May alleges that Clevenger recruited players and brought them to Pike Central and, in one case, allegedly met a player destined for an Indiana school at a Chicago airport, and brought the player to Pike Central prompting a missing persons report out of Illinois. May alleges that Pike County Schools administrators were made aware of the issues but failed to act and instead retaliated against him. May is seeking reinstatement to the position of assistant principal along with back wages and damages. According to court documents, the Pike County Board of Education is seeking a summary judgment against May and is also seeking nearly $8,000 in wages that were erroneously paid to May after he was fired as basketball coach. A hearing on that motion was for summary judgment was scheduled for Friday but is now scheduled to be held early next month. As of today, no formal complaint had been filed with KHSAA regarding this situation. A call to the number listed for Kentucky B.C.I. reached a line that had been disconnected.