I love athletes who were born after August 1st and did not stay back a year in school...
For example if you were born in October of 1988 you would be a junior...not held back and be a sophomore.
I want a study to be done...and I'll do it...of the effect of staying back a year on athletic performance. I feel like kids get an advantage if they stay back because they have an extra year to grow and be stronger than the rest of the kids in their grade...which helps give them more confidence...which helps then enjoy and excel at sports. It amazes me how many athletes are born either in the early months of the year or are held back if they are born August 1st or after...so they are older than everyone else in their grade.
Basically I love athletes who are younger, who are born in the later part of the year.
Two examples of ones I'd like would be Willis Reed and Tina Charles...both born in the later half of 1988 yet both are juniors.
87 Juniors, 88 Sophomores, 89 freshman would be people held back...
If the media guide is right...Courtney Wilkinson Maitland was actually moved up a grade...she's the only one I've noticed that for...but she was red-shirted so she's now athletically back with the kids in the same year as her...but she was recruited with people born in 89 when she's listed as being born in 1990...for that she gets some cred...
Don't freak out...this really intrigues me...I'd like to do a study to see if being older, or staying back has a huge effect on playing college athletics. I also hope that parents don't hold kids back just so they can be good athletes. I think that's wrong. I know in places like Ohio, they hold kids back to improve their football play and basically give them an extra year to grow and mature athletically...Again I don't like this idea.
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