diff --git a/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/BUILD b/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/BUILD
index 3531b68930c..ebe68f08340 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/BUILD
+++ b/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/BUILD
@@ -20,12 +20,9 @@ go_library(
         "//pkg/scheduler/apis/config/validation:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/scheduler/factory:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/api/core/v1:go_default_library",
-        "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/config:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1:go_default_library",
-        "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime:go_default_library",
-        "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/uuid:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/validation/field:go_default_library",
diff --git a/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/configfile.go b/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/configfile.go
index a564c71409e..25303ee347f 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/configfile.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/configfile.go
@@ -17,16 +17,11 @@ limitations under the License.
 package options
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json"
 	kubeschedulerconfig "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/scheduler/apis/config"
 	kubeschedulerscheme "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/scheduler/apis/config/scheme"
@@ -45,45 +40,6 @@ func loadConfigFromFile(file string) (*kubeschedulerconfig.KubeSchedulerConfigur
 func loadConfig(data []byte) (*kubeschedulerconfig.KubeSchedulerConfiguration, error) {
 	configObj := &kubeschedulerconfig.KubeSchedulerConfiguration{}
 	if err := runtime.DecodeInto(kubeschedulerscheme.Codecs.UniversalDecoder(), data, configObj); err != nil {
-
-		// if this is a componentconfig/v1alpha1 KubeSchedulerConfiguration object, coerce it to kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1 with a warning
-		// TODO: drop this block in 1.13
-		if runtime.IsNotRegisteredError(err) {
-			originalErr := err
-			var (
-				u               = &unstructured.Unstructured{}
-				codec           = json.NewYAMLSerializer(json.DefaultMetaFactory, kubeschedulerscheme.Scheme, kubeschedulerscheme.Scheme)
-				legacyConfigGVK = schema.GroupVersionKind{Group: "componentconfig", Version: "v1alpha1", Kind: "KubeSchedulerConfiguration"}
-			)
-			// attempt to decode to an unstructured object
-			obj, gvk, err := codec.Decode(data, nil, u)
-
-			// if this errored, or the object we read was not the legacy alpha gvk, return the original error
-			if err != nil || gvk == nil || *gvk != legacyConfigGVK {
-				return nil, originalErr
-			}
-
-			fmt.Printf("WARNING: the provided config file is an unsupported apiVersion (%q), which will be removed in future releases\n\n", legacyConfigGVK.GroupVersion().String())
-			fmt.Printf("WARNING: switch to command-line flags or update your config file apiVersion to %q\n\n", kubeschedulerconfigv1alpha1.SchemeGroupVersion.String())
-			fmt.Printf("WARNING: apiVersions at alpha-level are not guaranteed to be supported in future releases\n\n")
-
-			// attempt to coerce to the new alpha gvk
-			if err := meta.NewAccessor().SetAPIVersion(obj, kubeschedulerconfigv1alpha1.SchemeGroupVersion.String()); err != nil {
-				// return the original error on failure
-				return nil, originalErr
-			}
-
-			// attempt to encode the coerced apiVersion back to bytes
-			buffer := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
-			if err := codec.Encode(obj, buffer); err != nil {
-				// return the original error on failure
-				return nil, originalErr
-			}
-
-			// re-attempt to load the coerced apiVersion
-			return loadConfig(buffer.Bytes())
-		}
-
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/options_test.go b/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/options_test.go
index e8e683c82ea..b63fac090c4 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/options_test.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-scheduler/app/options/options_test.go
@@ -217,36 +217,7 @@ users:
 					return *cfg
 				}(),
 			},
-			// TODO: switch this to expect an error in 1.13 when the special-case coercion is removed from loadConfig
-			// expectedError: "no kind \"KubeSchedulerConfiguration\" is registered for version \"componentconfig/v1alpha1\"",
-			expectedUsername: "config",
-			expectedConfig: kubeschedulerconfig.KubeSchedulerConfiguration{
-				SchedulerName:                  "default-scheduler",
-				AlgorithmSource:                kubeschedulerconfig.SchedulerAlgorithmSource{Provider: &defaultSource},
-				HardPodAffinitySymmetricWeight: 1,
-				HealthzBindAddress:             "0.0.0.0:10251",
-				MetricsBindAddress:             "0.0.0.0:10251",
-				FailureDomains:                 "kubernetes.io/hostname,failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone,failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region",
-				LeaderElection: kubeschedulerconfig.KubeSchedulerLeaderElectionConfiguration{
-					LeaderElectionConfiguration: apiserverconfig.LeaderElectionConfiguration{
-						LeaderElect:   true,
-						LeaseDuration: metav1.Duration{Duration: 15 * time.Second},
-						RenewDeadline: metav1.Duration{Duration: 10 * time.Second},
-						RetryPeriod:   metav1.Duration{Duration: 2 * time.Second},
-						ResourceLock:  "endpoints",
-					},
-					LockObjectNamespace: "kube-system",
-					LockObjectName:      "kube-scheduler",
-				},
-				ClientConnection: apimachineryconfig.ClientConnectionConfiguration{
-					Kubeconfig:  configKubeconfig,
-					QPS:         50,
-					Burst:       100,
-					ContentType: "application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf",
-				},
-				PercentageOfNodesToScore: 50,
-				BindTimeoutSeconds:       &defaultBindTimeoutSeconds,
-			},
+			expectedError: "no kind \"KubeSchedulerConfiguration\" is registered for version \"componentconfig/v1alpha1\"",
 		},
 
 		{