[TheHotSnakes]

I understand what you are saying, but I have another philosophy when it comes to young kids. I would want to keep them all. Every kids plays a role on a team, scout team, freshmen team, JV, or varsity and even in warm ups when you look at total numbers. Take Corbin when they role out 80, I know all are not very good, but kids look at it and say , WOW. So little Johnny may never see the field, but he matters. Not to mention if he leaves and goes elsewhere, others may see how easy it is to do the same. We want to keep all of our kids, not just the starters. With that I have not even touched on the fact that who knows how much Johnny may develop in 2 years. I would not be so easy to pass young kids away to others. JMO

I'm in agreement with a lot of this.

But I will add that there are plenty of kids who you know what you're going to get. There are quite a lot of kids who have peaked in their growth in the 9th grade, and have already put on about as much weight and muscle as they can.

You want every kid. You want every kid to contribute in some capacity, even if it's just on scout team special teams.

I was just simply saying that the difference 1 kid makes isn't a universal metric. You could ask every coach of every team in every sport on every level "who can you afford to lose the least" and they'll all have an answer.