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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of an August misaligned player, I hear the concerns about playing on age and how it could affect recruiting.

But I also wonder, what are the college recruiting chances when playing up with your grade if you are now the youngest competing with players 12 months older.[/quote]

One way or another your player is going to be competing for college spots against other players who are available on the market (graduating) the same year.[/quote]
This is correct. College coaches will compare your kid with other players in their grade for who they want to recruit. If an Aug birthday is playing up on a team thats their grade in school they're the same as all other players in their graduating class/year. If an Aug birthday is playing down on a team thats a grade below them in school they're considered worse across all attributes college coaches are looking for. Which puts them at a serious disadvantage for being recruited.

What the age guy doesnt understand is top college coaches will only be interested in the top 1-2 players on each team. And guess what? If these players are August birthdays they're the ones most likely to be playing up on a correct grade team. Lather rinse repeat and what happens is college coaches quickly (re)discover that Aug birthdays that choose to play down are a waste of their time.[/quote]

I don't understand this person at all - it's not "playing down" when you're playing in your age bracket. There are always kids who will be the oldest in their bracket - they are not playing down! They just fall on one side of the cut off.

This is so dumb, lol.

[/quote]The only thing I can surmise is that the elderly have associated school sports with being the pinnacle of youth sports for so long they can't adjust to any thinking other than actual school grade for everything. Even though municipalities and schools have backed off on sports funding so much that private programs are now the leaders those with set views can't adjust.[/quote]

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