[b1gblu3sports]

You raise a good point b1gblu......I wonder how many of the kids that are posted on BGR right now with scholarships to here or there are either A. Olders kids or B. Have been held back. I kinda disagree with your point. I can think of 5 area kids who have received scholarships in the past 3 years and all 5 were hold backs. Also I had 2 friends in my class that were hold backs and they both received athletic scholarships. I guess the way I see it is if a kid was held back and didn't get an athletic scholly, he surely wouldn't have received one the year prior either. So really what did it hurt to give he or she that extra year to try for that free education ticket? I'm sure there are plenty of kids who have never been held back and receive scholarships, but I would like to see the actual results instead of just opinions. Maybe we should start a thread on here to track Hold-backs and see what their future results are. Not to BASH the kid or their parents, but just to see results.

I'm not knocking holdbacks, I could really careless. My point is this: I DISAGREE with holding a kid back to better MY PROGRAM. I know several coaches knowing that the kid want make it still encourages them to hold back to help the middle school. If your child needs an extra year to grow up, needs extra help in education, or has a chance for a scholarship; yes hold them back.

You said you knew 5 in 3 years. Lets do a little math shall we: in 3 years you looking at at least 15 players on the 8th grade team. 15 players for 3 years that would be a total of 45 players going through the 8th grade class. Out of the 45 how many was holdbacks? At least half or close to that. Anyways 5 out of 45 would equal 11.1%. Thats not good numbers. Let's say half of the 45 was hold backs. So your still looking at 5 out of 23 or so; 21.7%. A little better but what about the other 78.3% of hold backs?

All that isn't really my point, again not speaking bad about hold backs, just saying if coaches do it knowing that the child will not benefit is WRONG....:Thumbs: