Weird video (in reference to Starocci and separately, youth wrestlers)

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On 9/2/2024 at 11:39 PM, billyhoyle said:

Who cares about high school results? And it's basically cheating if you're 19 winning against 14-18 year olds. 

As it turns out, the coaches and organizations giving out that NIL money care about those very results.

I don’t disagree that the spirit of that stuff is in rather bad faith, but it's what is allowed.

[fishbane]

On 9/1/2024 at 6:50 PM, billyhoyle said:

Holding a kid back for academic or behavioral issues can make sense in certain cases. Holding somebody back purely for athletics simply doesn't make any sense. If the point is to provide an advantage for athletics, it makes much more sense to either do a gap year after graduating or something like a PG year. 

I agree.  Holding a kid back for academic reasons means the kid learns stuff they didn't learn the first time.  The 8th grade hold back for wrestling reasons seems counter productive if the goal is to make him/her a better wrestler.  Where will a kid get better over the next year?  In high school practicing and competing with 14-19 year olds or repeating 8th grade and likely not wrestling competitively Nov-March.

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