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.
Most of this is completely false - especially the change from 9/1 to May 1 so 1 player could play in the World Series. Please hat player played w the graduating class of 2022, didn’t play w the 2021’s.
For LI we def have some pre 9/1 bday’s but is just very small portion and the few that are known play 2027. Most of the 2009 birthdays are late November and December w the large majority being 2010’s.
holdbacks are part of the sport, we get it. But stop pretending it’s not a difference maker especially in the early stages of puberty.
As mentioned earlier LI has done very well at the one birth year tournament that teams can compete in, while the big name clubs from the Maryland area don’t even attempt to play.
