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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.[/quote]
Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?[/quote]

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school. [/quote]
Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players.  Especially in basketball.[/quote]

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19?  It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.[/quote]
Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.[/quote]

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?[/quote] A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass.  I was 16 until November of my senior year.  There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.  [/quote]

You were very young.  Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

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Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old.  Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters.  You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior.  And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family.  His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami.  His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore.  There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC.  What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate.  It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.[/quote]

It doesn’t make any sense if 90% of HS kids turn 18 as seniors.  Thats all HS kids, not just athletes.

Put another way, who cares if someone reclassed once or twice if you still can’t be over 19 by graduation.

You seem too obsessed with the number of reclasses vs the age when the kids graduate.[/quote]
That person was taking about the WCAC.  There are other athletic associations that don’t have the same requirement so there could be kids that are 20 when the graduate.

If you are correct and the kids are only 19 when they do graduate.  Who wants their kid to be 19 and couple months from 20 when they graduate high school? Most kids are barely 18.  Do you think this makes your kid an elite athlete? No they are just older.  A young man amongst boys.[/quote]

Most kids are firmly 18, not barely 18…but colleges don’t care how old you are.

If it results in my kid getting a Power 4 offer in a revenue sport, then why would I care?  If that happens then by default they are an elite athlete.  Also, if that’s what everyone is doing then they are men amongst men.

If your argument is that parents are doing this for kids with no shot, that’s a different point.[/quote]
Most kids are closer to 17, than they are 19 when they graduate. Most WCAC basketball players are closer to 20, than they are 18 when they graduate.

My argument was that it’s not abnormal to see a double reclass in the WCAC.  Someone above said nod kids were doing that.[/quote]

Again, it is abnormal to see a double reclass.  It’s like you refuse to do the simple math on this.  90% of kids are 5 when they start kindergarten or turn 5 prior to August 1 after their K year (BTW, almost an equal number are 6 as 4).

Based on this simple math and the rule that you can’t be 19 by August 1 of your senior year, then you can only reclass once.

Your making the argument that there are lots of kids starting kindergarten as recent 4 year olds which isn’t the case.[/quote]
In WCAC basketball, your average kid has done it atleast once.

I posted above about an AAU team my son played on where I think my son was the only kid that didn’t reclass and my son was actually a year behind these kids.

There were atleast 4 kids on that team that would be considered a double reclass and this could verified with a little bit of research.  The kid at St John’s doesn’t even get playing time.  [/quote]

Correct…because a normal kid can only do it once.  It makes zero sense that a parent that is obsessed with their kid becoming an athlete would start them in K at 4 knowing it’s better to be older.

Perhaps in other leagues that allow a 20 year old.[/quote]
Some parents value education over athletics and feel like they should start school when they are ready to do the work.  They are so idiotic that they prioritize academics over athletics.[/quote]

This is a thread on St James Academy…a sports academy.

Why are you even commenting?  It’s as though you don’t understand the topic at hand.[/quote]

The projection in your comments is staggering. It’s pathetic you lack the self-awareness to realize it. [/quote]

Again…why are you here on a thread discussing  a sports academy (where we all know the parents prioritize sports over academics) and blathering about parents that prioritize academics over athletics?

That’s like arguing on a Julliard thread that parents should prioritize academics over a kid who focuses on the arts.[/quote]
I’m not the poster you are talking to, but I have kids who are very good athletes.  They are also good students and I certainly don’t prioritize sports over academics.  Academics are first in my household.  
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Again...nobody is claiming SJA is where you send your kids if you prioritize Academics over Sports.  The question is does it meet any standards for educating your kid.

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It meets the standards you will get at your basic online school[/quote]

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