[RunItUpTheGut]

Just for the record, Green, Lawson, both Whitley girls and Cromer from South were hold backs in middle school. Not sure about Shepard... Also several girls mentioned in the upper grades are hold backs. I know it is not practical and hard to track, but if we are apples to apples and are going to compare you should really do it by age instead of grade. For instance, Brock (Harlan) and Davis (South) are Freshman, but not hold backs.

Ive never understood this point, or what I would call an excuse.

Every player in the state can be held back in grade school for pretty much any reason. Whitley has done this hundreds of times with girls bball players but not really in any other sports. The only way to rank players is usually by grade. To say a 14 year old is being cheated because a 15 year old is in the same grade is kind of absurd. The 14 years olds parents had the same opportunity and could have held her back as well.

Not to mention its is 100% legal so long as they don't end up turning 19 before August 1st of there senior year. Ive found a lot of Whitleys girls that were held back had summer birthdays and should have started in the grade they were held back to anyways.