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When will people realize that that kind of arrogance is just flat out ugly and unappealing.

The answer to that, based on my climb up the corp ladder, is "When they slip from #1 to #2 in the pecking order." All of a sudden, the adoring crowd has gone home, and the support network of "whatever you need" evaporates or at best, sends you their hourly billing rate.

A big part of being #1 was repeating 8th grade. Dad knew he couldn't be the #1 '22 as JS had that locked up already and MM may not even have been top 10, which just wasn't good enough for dad. Now he claims he chose Duke b/c his education is of utmost importance, although in MS and HS lax was definitely all that mattered.

So true!

No one repeats 8th grade because education is important. Either they flunked because nobody at home placed any value on education or sports is their #1 priority and education is secondary. Of course they'll claim the fact that they pay an extra $40K proves they "value" education.

Plenty of kids at private schools repeat 8th grade. Usually the school advises the parents to do so.

McD required McCabe to stay back due to his age. He entered public school system a year early so now he’s actually on age. He was the youngest in his class at McD before reclassifying. BTW he is one of the top 5 students academically at McD.

Great kid but 10000% not true. He will be an 18 in a few months. My son grew up with him. No big deal but your facts are absolutely not true.

So far from the truth. He was actually on age before holding back and frankly not even a summer on age student, much earlier. So the reality is , he is older than most he plays against including most summer holdbacks.

"Give it to the 9th Grader!"

-MM

He may be one of the youngest at McD, but only if the rest are also holdbacks. SP would not allow him to re-class because he was doing well in school and athletically. McD was happy to allow it, might even have encouraged it, but it's not because he was too young. March 2004 birthday. He started public school on age, but even then he was too good to attend the public school for which we was zoned - they bussed him outside of his school zone.

Most boys at McD born after March are holdbacks, and that is in the 75-90 % range. They only have 45-70 boys per grade. Generally from the two grades my sons are involved with. I would say over 50% are holdbacks.

MM was against holdbacks the first few years his kid played. Talked trash about holdbacks. Then he quickly got on with the program as it is written in the MIAA, hold im back or suffer.

Come on Mark. Save the BS for Dino at Duke. Now ..Give it to the 9th grader..or at least Break his arms. LOL

Take it to the holdback forum.

MM is against many things until it comes to himself or his kids. They all put the "exception" in exceptional.