| Hard for some to stomach the sheer #s of holdbacks, especially at Prep. This will more likely be an issue next year when the seniors should really be matriculating to college. |
Much of this will change after this season when the NCAA takes up the proposal to change the transfer portal rules substantially tightening the ways/rationales one can use to leave school 'a' for school 'b' |
Oh, your kid is at Yorktown huh |
“Hard to stomach”, huh? Please be brave. There is so much at stake. We are all counting on you and we are all so proud of you. Maybe not as proud of you as you are of yourself, but proud nonetheless. |
Kids who have either reclassified once or even twice, their play generally beings to "diminish" or certainly stand out less as they progress to upperclassmen. THe kids who are of regular age, being to catch up in physical maturity. The 15-year-old 8th grader at Mater Dei no longer dominates when he is a senior. |
| Yes, I would imagine a lot of the Prep holdbacks who are juniors are not going to experience very big bumps in the level of their play over the next year or so. |
People may cli the holdback levels off in HS but most of the DC dogs players are very legit. Look at the top D1 schools that they committed to. Those coaches did not see a huge drop off. |
Every time I hear a Mater "delay" Dei 15 year old 8th grader I just get a chuckle. It is ridiculous! I hope it was enough delay to get those academics in order. SJC and Prep are getting some big and at times average size boys regardless of the delay. |
| And most of those Dc Dogs should be 2022s and would not be nearly as impressive. |
| The coaching staffs at High Level D1 programs seem to disagree with the bitter parents on this board. Can't figure out why these kids who are done developing keep getting offers to the best programs in the country. |
| Dc Dogs are truly men among boys. |
you are right about that. When you turn 18 in the Fall of your junior year, you are considered an adult. My son graduated at age 18 (turned 18 a month and a half before his June commencement). |
| Yeah but look at all the great commitments haha |
| It all evens out. I get the obsession with the DC Dogs 23 class. They are good. They have great commitments. The question for this string is can they all pull together on different club teams and make it work. Thats a much different question and we'll start getting the answers to that in about 3-4 weeks. |
First game against SJC. We'll get a good idea pretty quickly if those dogs are legit. SJC has been getting after it for a while with skills and lifting as they have a killer schedule. |