Until colleges stop rewarding it - why should parents stop?
So, it’s the colleges that are immoral for rewarding the holdbacks with spots on their teams!? Facts, many are holdbacks on the top teams!
All you righteous people who are calling the parents immoral should second guess going to any of the colleges that have holdbacks! Prove your morality and don’t let your kids attend such pathetic, immoral schools as MD, Duke, Virginia, etc…
I bet you would have your kid attend any one of the “immoral” schools!
It's all really simple and rational and hardly immoral:
1) The NCAA allows more than a 4 year age range for athletes to support kids who followed different paths to and during college 2) College coaches have to field the best teams they can to keep their jobs 3) Teams with older kids are on average going to be stronger than teams with younger kids 4) Older HS sophomores/juniors will stand out during recruitment over younger HS sophomores/juniors 5) Its beneficial to be held back before HS since HS may limit you to 4 years of eligibility for sports
Unless you change 1), everything remains the same. You certainly can (and should) have youth tournaments switch to on-age but that really won't stop the hold backs.
