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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.[/quote]

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten. [/quote]

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school [/quote]
Well the pandemic f’d high school sports recruiting up.  There is the transfer portal now, and you have 7 year seniors now playing in college and that’s no exaggeration.

College coaches are less likely to take a kid that that hasn’t proved himself at the college level over a kid that has.  I have had several coaches tell me they aren’t looking at high school seniors, who haven’t already been on the radar by the time they were juniors.  Even public school kids are doing it.  It’s gotten to the point that competition isn’t even fair at the high school level, if you don’t “redshirt”.

This has been going on for years, just less talked about.  Now everyone knows to do it and 80% of the serious athletes are doing it.  Atleast in basketball and all the best players are doing it.  I’m hearing the same thing is going on in Lacrosse.[/quote]

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