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[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. [b]It's not going to give them a leg up academically or athletically. [/b] 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.
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[b]You don’t think being a year older gives people an edge athletically? Where do you think the practice of redshirting came from in college athletics?[/b] Just a lot of coaches who all thought little Johnny who had been recruited for D1 needed some extra time to develop adequate/average sports skills? The lengths folks will go to on this forum to defend these families is really something… but claiming there’s no athletic advantage to redshirting really takes the cake.[/quote]

No. That's completely crazy. And that's not how or why people redshirt in college. It's not even remotely analogous. You are just making a bunch of dumb assumptions. [/quote]

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