Not all of them are 9th graders - some liked 8th so much, they are doing it again next year. Watch how many follow MM's lead and have their boys repeat 8th grade. For those of you who lost to 91 2025 this year, you won't have to worry about facing some of their better players in HS until at least 2023.
You do know the 91 Team starts.....wait for it....a whopping 2 holdbacks. The FOGO and an attackman, so I would argue there are plenty of other squads who roll with more 'hold backs' than that!? Especially the team they trounced in the championship. Stop hating and sorry your son has not grown.....
And the Fogo is 5 foot nothing and most of the guys on here complain about holdbacks because they have hit puberty and tower over the other boys. Like the previous poster said there are 2. 91 runs out and competes against teams with many more than that and beats them repeatedly - NL and HHH just to name a few. We welcome playing older kids just makes the team better anyway.
Older does not necessarily correlate to better. The sooner some of these parents learn that the sooner we can move on from this my-team-cant-compete-because-holdbacks nonsense.
Not nonsense at all. You holdback apologists constantly talk about how it isnt an advantage,
holdback/prefirst/reclass WORKS !! Every MIAA coach has held his son back that has played. If you are born Sept-Dec, chances are you dont need to be heldback, but even then, I know of a coach that held his son back born then. Most of chatter from on age players parents is from Sept-DEC birthday players. The rest ( especially summer birthdays) know the drill, do a prefirst or hold them back later.
Duke used to put birthdays on its rooster, I went thru it once. Only 4 players on team were on age for that college year that were born after March . The majority were a year older ( heldback) or born between Sept-DEC .
Sorry people, Holding back works, turns average to good players one year in youth, to very good players after holding back.
More playing time, coaching, etc.
This thing about holding back not working is pure delusional. It does.
