LI parents love to complain about holdbacks meanwhile their teams actively promote held back kids. The Duke Freshman should be graduating, and the #1 HS recruit in the country should also be finishing his frosh year in College. They actually changed the WSYL rules so he could play another year (cutoff moved back to May that year, not Sept.). How many LI Coaches have held their kids back? If you’re not a holdback at some clubs, good luck getting on the field.
So you can name 2 guys? Great job. Not exactly a rampant problem. Truth is the holdback is the outlier here.on Long Island. Much more rare here.
All of our kids on the top programs are age eligible for the World Series and what drives guys like this nuts is some of our kids PLAY UP! A novel concept for your area where most parents are trying to have their kids play down in age by holding their kids back.
To answer the guy above about age, most of our kids are still 11, some 12. Cutoff here for school is December and people don’t normally hold the late in the yr kids back. They start them in Kindergarten at 4 years old in September and they turn 5 on their birthdays in Oct/Nov/Dec.
