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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes how annoying!

Little league forces the summer birthday redshirt kids to play their correct age group (rather than grade). I was always glad about that one.

It’s more frustrating in later years IMHO. For example a freshman baseball player that is almost 16 (turns 16 in June). And there are so many like this- usually they were held back in Kindergarten but more and more are  “reclassing”. I know two 8th grade boys who are repeating 8th grade next year - not for any academic reason but for sports.  
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Why on Earth would it be more frustrating after the kids go through puberty?  [/quote]

Because a great 16 year old is 99.9% better than a great 14 year old, and that age gap difference follows both kids throughout all of HS.  The 0.1% is reserved for the insane athletes like Cooper Flagg who reclassed the other way...graduated HS after his junior year at 17, so he will just turn 19 after his one year at Duke and will be the #1 NBA draft pick.

The kids that reclass in 8th grade aren't weak athletes.  Most are the strongest athletes.  Again, colleges don't care how old you are.  That's why you have 26 year old college QBs.  Also, I think during the NCAA basketball tournament that they said the average age of the Auburn starting 5 was slightly older than one NBA team (I can't remember which team).[/quote]

If your high school kid can’t get a spot on the team on his own merits, that just means he’s not destined to go far in his sport.  Once the kids are through puberty age has very little to do with how good the kids are.[/quote]

Spoken as someone who doesn't have a kid at a sports powerhouse school.  Of course you are completely missing the point...it's not weak kids that are re-classing...it's the strongest kids doing this because they are competing nationally for D1 spots.

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There is functionality no difference between a talented and athletic 16 year old versus a 17 year old versus an 18 year old.  Get a grip.

You know they have 18 year olds competing against 22 years in college, don’t you?  Are you going to cry about that, too?[/quote]

And the 22 year old has a huge advantage over the 18 year old [/quote]

And the 25 year old professional has a huge advantage over the 35 year old old professional.  At some point you’re just competing.  Period.  Not competing exclusively with people born within one year of when you were born.  And high school is a perfectly reasonable line to draw to throw all the kids into the same ring, IMO.[/quote]

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