PG is clearly different. It means that the school and the kid said I need to get my grades up to perform in your institution, I have plenty of athletic ability but they want to see me get my grades up. I am not competing against younger kids today, but I will be next year.
It is not cheating.
The point is that the year of age matters alot at 8th grade, but very little after HS. Most kids are fully grown in 12th grade, most are not fully gown at 14 or 15. that is the difference.
Holding back an 8th grader to get a physical advantage over boys in the middle of puberty is cheating. It is common sense and people who do it plainly admit they are doing so to give their kid an advantage. They just dont like the fact that others call them cheaters.
You people are "clearly" just ridiculous! Justify it however you want...PG, Reclassify, hold back, immature, blah, blah, blah, its gaining an advantage (cheating) kids of the same age. Just because "they do it" does not mean its ok. A lot of things in this world get taken advantage of, until there are guidelines put in place. Until USL does something about it people like you will take advantage of it. None of my children would have felt right about playing against kids younger than them at any age, in any sport. Two of my children have graduated as a D1 scholar athlete at 21yrs. old, & my 3rd, hopefully, will do the same. just how we roll here in LI!
