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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The notion that "'redshirting" is some trick that rich people use to get an unfair advantage for their kid seems utterly and completely ridiculous. It's not going to give them a leg up academically or athletically. If anything, it's going to give the kid a complex about why he or she is older than everyone else. But if the parent sees some problem that will be exacerbated by pushing their kid along, then I don't know why we don't give the parent the benefit of the doubt. They know their kid better than anyone else. [/quote]

This is some Pollyanna nonsense. Redshirting is a thing in sports precisely because being a year older gives a huge advantage. Looking for an academic edge (over others, though they don’t say the quiet part aloud) is why some parents do it for school. [/quote]

You obviously know nothing about sports. That's not even why college athletes redshirt. They generally only get four years of eligibility. If you're trying to make it to the pros, it may not make sense to burn a year of eligibility sitting on the bench if it's clear you're not going to play because you're not good enough. But sitting out that year, not officially being on the team, doesn't make you any more attractive as a prospect the following year. It's still just as possible that someone new will come along, who is younger than you, who will also be better than you. Redshirting can mark you as a marginal talent. [/quote]

The reason you would spend your first year on the bench and not, say, your 4th is because for non-superstars, coaches often want them to gain a year of physical maturity, because — gasp — being a year older gives you a comparative advantage physically. Like you are tiptoeing sooooo close to the truth, but can’t bring yourself to say it. Also, the whole reason there are only 5 years of eligibility (normally), is to stop multi-year redshirting for non-injury precisely because folks would otherwise do it. We do agree that if your kid was a superstar, you wouldn’t feel the need to hold him back… but here you are.[/quote]

If you’re redshirting, it means you’re the worst player on the field.

It also means you’re going to stand around holding a clipboard for a year while everyone else around you is playing, improving their skills, learning to work together and showing off to the world what they can do.

The idea that the clipboard guy will get some unfair advantage down the road, by standing around for a year watching everyone else get to play, would surely come as a shock to clipboard guys everywhere.[/quote]

This is simply not the reality in certain college sports. Redshirted freshman in college football are incredibly routine, especially for positions that are heavily benefitted from players being larger. And those players are not standing around holding a clipboard for the year -- they train with the team and spend the entire year improving skills, strength training, learning offensive/defensive schemes, etc. The redshirt year is considered a developmental year, not punishment for being bad at football. There are absolutely redshirted players who are better than some active players, it depends on year, position, sometimes team needs, and what the team views as the player's ceiling for development.

I don't know what sport you are familiar with that has "clipboard guys" who are allowed on the team but apparently are bad at the sport and thus get this weird position where they stand around and do nothing for a year, but this is simply not true for most popular, recruited sports. Someone like that would simply not be recruited to play on most competitive college teams.[/quote]

This person sounds like their only knowledge of college sports is the Lori Laughlin scandal. Because what are clipboard guys?[/quote]

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