@314Calhoun posted:I undertand that reclassing is not a new thing. My point was that I believe that a significantly larger portion of the player population was already kindergarten redshirted and therefore I don't see those players being able to reclass in high school or after 8th grade. Malcolm Galdwell's Outliers book came out shortly after and before the generation of players that I am talking about were born. I remember seeing a segment about it on 60 minutes. Sure there always was and always will be those manipulative and conniving parents who want to negotiate their kids odds, but I believe that the popularity of that book spread to more parents who otherwise may not have previously even considered the kindergarten redshirt. The kids reclassing now were already in kindergarten by the time Outliers was wildly popular.
I've read the Outliers, I agree.
Reclassification is the new normal, Covid-19 has exacerbated the issue.