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[QUOTE="relaxer, post: 5474026, member: 7852"]
This is one of the reasons I'm bewildered that coaches keep falling for this reclass nonsense. A player repeats a year to play against younger players, and all of a sudden they magically are a full star grade better and the coaches are gunning harder for them.

Don't they realize once they get to college that advantage goes away? As a general rule, I find that most of the time players perform closer to how they stack up against kids their own age than kids in their own grade. Owen Duffy is a full year younger than McCabe Millon, and surprise surprise he's starting to create distance at the college level. There's a reason Chaminade and St. Anthony's kids have such a high hit rate compared to MIAA/NEW-1 top recruits: the LI catholic kids rarely indulge in the holdback game.

From the class of 2025, a few that I've got circled to watch in regards to this phenomenon are Michael Ortlieb and Teddy Lally -- both players are older than Kyle Colsey, who already finished his freshman year of college. Lally is more than six months older than Colsey!

In the case of Peck, he's a great player (one of my favorite to watch) but I think he's more of a high four star than a five star. Going back to his own class has caused the recruiters to reappraise him accurately.
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