True/False: Is it pathetic for a parent of a hs athlete..

[Roy Munson]

Psssst, ATF, he's from the Philly area.

Bingo.

 

[Olyduck]

My parents held me back. I took senior year twice despite a 3.4 gpa because they wanted me to bang more freshmen.

did you go to statutory high?

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

I started school a year early and it always sucked. I didn't turn 16 until my Jr year, everyone else did it freshman or sophmore year.

Sucked even more when it came to football.

Me too...think it was mainly because mom needed to work full time so I went in as soon as possible. I was always the youngest, and for most of it, the smallest male in my class.

I "played" football in 5th/6th grades but after that I switched to things like baseball and basketball, where the size differences weren't going to kill me

 

[7Samurai13]

Yeah, that's what she told me.

As long as I don't have to fake mine.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

did you go to statutory high?

Check out all the fags on this page talking about "oh, a senior banging freshmen, that's statutory r*pe."

Spoken like a dude who had a crush on a freshman that got banged by a senior.

 

[Across The Field]

Check out all the fags on this page talking about "oh, a senior banging freshmen, that's statutory r*pe."

Spoken like a dude who had a crush on a freshman that got banged by a senior.

Right? I mean there was this chick we would drink with when I was a senior named Hottie 8th Grader, what's the big deal?

 

[7Samurai13]

Check out all the fags on this page talking about "oh, a senior banging freshmen, that's statutory r*pe."

Spoken like a dude who had a crush on a freshman that got banged by a senior.

Shit, our seniors were bagging teachers.

No joke she was my senior year French teacher and we were sure she was banging her TA. Decade later she gets "nailed" for it right before our ten year reunion.

http://m.zimbio.com/Janelle+Batkins/articles/ff-C8ehy8Ve/34+Janelle+Batkins

 

[RobBase]

I started school a year early and it always sucked. I didn't turn 16 until my Jr year, everyone else did it freshman or sophmore year.

Sucked even more when it came to football.

Reminds me of this study about how the majority of Canadian NHL players were born in Jan- March, making them older than almost all other kids during their entire lives growing up learning the game:

Study: Correlation Of Birth Month And # Of Canadians In The Nhl

 

[4down20]

I have a late November birthday, which was way past the cutoff, but my parents signed some waiver and I had to take a test to get admitted early.

I was always the youngest kid in my class. I was still 16 when I played my last HS football game... playing against kids who were 18 and 19.

December for me.

 

[4down20]

Me too...think it was mainly because mom needed to work full time so I went in as soon as possible. I was always the youngest, and for most of it, the smallest male in my class.

I "played" football in 5th/6th grades but after that I switched to things like baseball and basketball, where the size differences weren't going to kill me

This was likely part of it for me. Even though I started early, I also went to preschool before it.

 

[Roy Munson]

December for me.

Crazy.

Helps that I wasn't ever undersized, but I'm sure a few years could have helped with sports. But in the grand scheme of things I wasn't going to go pro in anything and it worked out that I got out of college and got a job right before the recession rather than when jobs were way harder to come by.

 

[4down20]

Crazy.

Helps that I wasn't ever undersized, but I'm sure a few years could have helped with sports. But in the grand scheme of things I wasn't going to go pro in anything and it worked out that I got out of college and got a job right before the recession rather than when jobs were way harder to come by.

Oh I was fucking tiny. 5'2 and 110lbs soaking wet.

And now people from highschool see me and they don't believe it. I'm a big dude, around 6'2. I remember when I was 19 someone asked my dad who is that big guy with you, and I was looking around.

A couple of years would have made a huge difference as far as athletics. It didn't matter in some of my younger years where things were done by age groups, except I was always on teams with people in lower grades instead of people my own age. But at least I didn't suck as bad.

 

[theboardref]

Think there was a Real Sports about this . . . also it apparently works. See Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers and the section about Canadian youth hockey. Kids born around the time of the youth hockey cut off ended up doing better in hockey and advancing further because their increased maturity and additional practice made them stand out from their peers. The additional maturity/skills gets them special attention from the coaches and which gets them additional practice and coaching which in turn makes them better than their peers.

Well of course it 'works' you are playing against younger less physically developed competition. You realize a freshman is 14 and a senior is 18. Now hold them back a year for no real reason it is now a 19 yr old with a 5 yr age gap. So he SHOULD look better than everyone else.

 

[cerealboi]

Well of course it 'works' you are playing against younger less physically developed competition. You realize a freshman is 14 and a senior is 18. Now hold them back a year for no real reason it is now a 19 yr old with a 5 yr age gap. So he SHOULD look better than everyone else.

1) in most high schools unless the frosh is particularly gifted they're not playing varsity with seniors
2) It's not necessarily seniors that are being held back (or simply choosing not to graduate). Can be freshman, sophomores, and juniors that don't advance to the next grade.

 

[socaljim242]

It worked for the Clausen family. They did it with their boys. They started them in kindergarden at six 1st grade a year later and got "held back" in sixth grade. So when freshmen were 14-15 years old at the beginning of school Jimmy Clausen was 16 and driving to school. Senior year he started at 19 years old and was 20 before he went to Notre dame.

 

[theboardref]

1) in most high schools unless the frosh is particularly gifted they're not playing varsity with seniors
2) It's not necessarily seniors that are being held back (or simply choosing not to graduate). Can be freshman, sophomores, and juniors that don't advance to the next grade.

Shouldn't matter regardless of year. If the sole purpose of staying back is to develop more for athletics shame on the parents.

 

[theboardref]

It worked for the Clausen family. They did it with their boys. They started them in kindergarden at six 1st grade a year later and got "held back" in sixth grade. So when freshmen were 14-15 years old at the beginning of school Jimmy Clausen was 16 and driving to school. Senior year he started at 19 years old and was 20 before he went to Notre dame.

But does that make it right?

 

[socaljim242]

But does that make it right?

No , it's totally messing with how things are and should be. Why not one more year , he could legally drink alcohol ( cali its 21)the same year he graduated from High School.

 

[theboardref]

No , it's totally messing with how things are and should be. Why not one more year , he could legally drink alcohol ( cali its 21)the same year he graduated from High School.

Just can't help but laugh when a parent was bragging the kid playing was a true freshman.

 

[Dolemite censored]

My parents held me back. I took senior year twice despite a 3.4 gpa because they wanted me to bang more freshmen.

No, fool, they held you back because you were retarded.