Far more football players are holdbacks but you do not hear football parents squeal and whine about holdbacks as much as lax parents. Just play. Life is unfair. If some other parents want to hold their kid back due to sports, immaturity or any other reason and go to the trouble of reclassifying their kid, I do not care. As long as you are not 19 when you enter your senior year, VA high schools do not care either. If your kid is good enough, it will not matter, especially with the new NCAA recruiting rules.
Complete garbage..The main holdback venom is directed at youth under 9th grade, Football has clear age restrictions in place at youth level.
HS is were it evens out a lot..but there will always be some slight advantage to being a year older than everyone else in your class.
