[cherokee]

I'm not as close to this situation as you might think, i just know it's controversial. You are correct that the playing of these holdbacks are left up to the site base councils. However where you seem to be mistaken is that no parent has the authority to decide to have his son/daughter heldback or retained. Thinking rationally if its up to the site base councils and conferences I dont see how your argument holds much. Each school and middle school conference has there own regulations for this.

You are close to this issue, on another topic you were trying to schedule games for Corbin 7th and 8th grade teams wanting coaches with open dates to give you a pm, so don't go there. If you dropped one team from your schedule for hold backs you should let those other team s know you don.t play teams with holdbacks or have you got a preference on which teams with holdbacks you play. The key word is promotion and you are wrong again the parent does have a say but the finale decision is with the local school authority,your conference can only blackball those teams.My friend ask your self if it is not legal why are holdbacks allowed to play in the middle school playoffs. Most parents hold their kids back at a young age so they can dominate recreation league ball and when little Johnny don't grow or develop they get lost in the shuffle (did the school official decide Little Johnny needed held back twice at Corbin once in the 4th and once in the 7th) or was it his parents ha, ha. The kid that has never been held back gets in middle school and has the size,skills and potential to maybe get a scholarship and that one year may be the difference,then he should have his extra year like those recreation league all americans did. Your site base will not let holdbacks play so I guess the rest of the world needs to follow your lead,but that is not going to happen.:worthy: