re: Annual Official LA HS Baseball Season-long Thread

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Living here that entire time, the holdbacks are usually 3-4% of the total class…if that honestly. The most I remember in the hay day of holdbacks was 22 and that was in the 90s. It’s been much less prevalent since the rule changed to you must hold back prior to 6th grade. Now that it changed again, we will have to see where it goes from here.

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so how did this start?

Did the parents get together to do it? Did Shows originally approach the town and tell people this is what we need to do?

I’m truly curious how it starts

News star article in early 2000s said 85 % of athletes

One school has a notice on how to do it on their fb page

ea used to be a big deal, for over a decade I haven’t seen it mentioned except on here with people whining every year in the baseball thread. because most thought the pushing the hb grade back did away with it - but it didn’t in fact kids could still get medical waivers to hold back after.

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Only select parts of the state care about winning high school sports at all costs

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judging by what’s went on in NOLA, we’re in one of them

Curtis was the only school I know that had a significant hold back program

Nope

The ones that were still doing it after when it was pushed back-

Maybe in Jefferson parish but keep in mind most kids doing at no Catholic schools were doing it where cheaper or no tuition was involved prior to 8th grade.

Leonard fournette was a holdback

Na barbe has Littleton the big freshman left and Owen galt they can throw. Diego is burned, JD is injured and can only hit and bellard got his hand broken again in the Mandeville series when he was hit by pitch in the hand he had just gotten healed.

But Littleton is a stud. Might not be as good as what WM is throwing but barbe always has a chance.