Jalen Rose Report: The practice of Middle Schoolers staying back a year

[Ken Piffey Jr.]

Didn't watch the video, but the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell touches on a similar theory. Even if they don't hit a growth spurt, they still are better than kids relative to their grade and therefore have better opportunity to get training/coaching/etc. good book...

 

[Ken Piffey Jr.]

Synopsis:

The book begins with the observation that a disproportionate number of elite Canadian hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year. The reason is that since youth hockey leagues determine eligibility by calendar year, children born on January 1 play in the same league as those born on December 31 in the same year. Because children born earlier in the year are bigger and more mature than their younger competitors, and they are often identified as better athletes, this leads to extra coaching and a higher likelihood of being selected for elite hockey leagues. This phenomenon in which "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is dubbed "accumulative advantage" by Gladwell, while sociologist Robert K. Merton calls it "the Matthew Effect", named after a biblical verse in the Gospel of Matthew: "For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath."[7]Outliers asserts that success depends on the idiosyncrasies of the selection process used to identify talent just as much as it does on the athletes' natural abilities.[7]

 

[kevin arnold]

Bill walker
Oj mayo
Alex tyus
Tyler hansborough

Hansborough would have gotten that ass handed to him if he came out in the right class. He doesn't win those two state championships if he comes out in 03 like he was supposed to.

 

[triplehate]

I had a homie in high school that was still playing JV as a junior


As an nba fan only, its why i have no interest in following these high school prospects until they get in college. Playing in all these different talent levels, different rules, different age groups how the hell you supposed to know who is good for real.


I bet the under on all of em. (Including Wiggins)

 

[Jack Martinez]

I was 6'3, 200lbs when I was 16. Why didn't I come to America and do this?!

Bruh you could've played big time football at ANY school you wanted.

They would've had coaches READY 2 work with you and make you LIVE.

 

[Jack Martinez]

Oh yeah.....Jalen Rose's podcast is a very good show.

If you never heard it, please listen to it.

VERY entertaining.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

[ame=http://youtu.be/TW0ZxgFeNEM]Jalen Rose Report 7/11/2013 Full Podcast | Grantland Channel - YouTube[/ame]

 

[OG Talk]

My nephew did something similar...He went to prep school in Vegas after he graduated H.S. and turned down a bunch a D1 offers so he could play and train with NBA players at Impact Academy...Then he registered as a true freshman and turned 20 during his first year...

This is how it would have looked if he went the held back route and played as a 19 year old H.S. senior

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I really hate that shyt bruh,My son is going through it now. It sucks because he is actually a year ahead because he is 12 going into 8th grade. He currently plays on a 14 and under AAU teams and he plays well but its dudes who are already 14 going into the
8th grade...

Of course since my son started early I could be justified for holding him back because that would just be putting him in the right grade for his age, but he does well in school and has not problems so I would feel bad for stunting his growth academically just to gain an advantage athletically....

It sucks because he is aware of it as well and always says "if I was in the right grade I would dominate" He already got 7th grade Basketball MVP and offensive POTY for his middle school last year so its not like he can't compete with the kids on that level. But I constantly wonder what he could be if he was in his right grade

 

[VladTheImpaler]

I was 6'3, 200lbs when I was 16. Why didn't I come to America and do this?!

soccer was not big then

 

[EA]

Bruh you could've played big time football at ANY school you wanted.

They would've had coaches READY 2 work with you and make you LIVE.

Never played football, basketball's always been my sport but it's tough here in the UK. Coaches wanted me to play in the post but when I went to a couple camps in FL, they'd expect me to play 2-guard. Had me all messed up smh.

 

[Clem]

I really hate that shyt bruh,My son is going through it now. It sucks because he is actually a year ahead because he is 12 going into 8th grade. He currently plays on a 14 and under AAU teams and he plays well but its dudes who are already 14 going into the
8th grade...

Of course since my son started early I could be justified for holding him back because that would just be putting him in the right grade for his age, but he does well in school and has not problems so I would feel bad for stunting his growth academically just to gain an advantage athletically....

It sucks because he is aware of it as well and always says "if I was in the right grade I would dominate" He already got 7th grade Basketball MVP and offensive POTY for his middle school last year so its not like he can't compete with the kids on that level. But I constantly wonder what he could be if he was in his right grade

Hold him back a year. Better than having to deal with him crying about how he could have been in the league if he was in the right grade down the line.

 

[Gotright]

my nephew did this.seven grade twice so when he get to the ninth he will be 15 and to all my Detroit nikkas yall gone heard about him been practicing with pershing since he was in the 5th grade.

 

[Rodgers]

the worst offender of this is Louisville's luke hancock... And no im not saying this just cause i'm a uk fan

hancock is going to turn 24 this year... One year at a postgraduate school out of high school... two years at George Mason... redshirt year as a transfer to Louisville... his jr year last year as a 23 year old

if u think bout it, dude was smart though. if he stays in his original class he never ends up at George Mason much less ending up winnin the most outstanding player award in the final 4

 

[Mandizi]

I graduated from H.S. here in Ohio at 17, didn't turn 18 until november that year. I started school in California which has a later cutoff age limit than Ohio. I'm glad I graduated early.

fukk being in H.S. at 18-19 years old.