Originally Posted by Anonymous
It happens all over and more than you think. Just look at Friends and see how many transfer in for 1 year to repeat a grade. That is the new hiding spot for GC parents.

It has been going on in all sports for a very long time. Red shirt freshmen in football and just look at the NBA draft. Look at the top ten taken. Not sure if their were any kids who graduated but they were all 23, 24 years old.


I may be wrong, but what has been going on for a long time is PG years for kids taking a 5th year of HS at the end, not at the start. PGs tended to be kids who had been recruited for a sport but needed to pull up grades or scores. Redshirt football players is same thing. They take a first year of college to eat and lift weights to get up their muscle and weight. Neither of those is to sissy down when you start HS. In the NBA draft there are lots of foreign league pros taken who are mid 20s. Many of the NCAA early outs are 19 to 21 years old. LeBron started wrecking the NBA when he was still a teenager, Kobe the same. Don't see that point either.