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[QUOTE="HyattsCuse, post: 5685041, member: 1538"]
Yes, you can age gate kids as per all of your examples.  Good luck trying to "age gate" legal adults (i.e. 18+).  It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

There are many factors to consider beyond just age...skill level, size, experience, when they were born, etc.  Cooper Flagg had no issues playing against NBA players, let alone older college players.  Yasin Willis came in at 6'1" 225 as a freshman.  Point is some kids are just going to have advantages over others.

My kid was born a day after our school districts cutoff date for registration so is the oldest kid in the class.  So he'll be almost 19 by default his freshman year of college.  If he takes a redshirt year and then plays 4 years at his sport, he'll almost be 24 by the time he graduates.  Heaven forbid he gets hurt and gets a medical waiver.  Now he's 25.  So now he can't fulfill his athletic eligibility because he'll have to play against a 19 year old?  That's ridiculous.

How are you going to regulate those situations as opposed to someone that reclassifies back a class, takes a post grad year, etc?  You can't based purely on age.
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