holdbacks may be within the rules but they are mostly non-athletic cowards. Everyone knows it. It's why the holdback parents here always deny it or make excuses about it.
Listen to them dance around it in the stands- It's hilarious!
Hmmm…Cole Herbert from CHC…never saw a non-athletic coward when he is on the field for CHC or UNC. That’s just one example out of a couple hundred of how ludicrous your statement is.
Sure. Every kid that holds back is the next Cole Herbert. Just like every kid that swings a decent golf club at age 4 is the next Tiger Woods.
Correlation does not equal causation. Correlation and causation are often confused because the human mind likes to find patterns even when they DO NOT exist.
I've seen it in the league for the past decade+. There are way more holdback struggles and washouts than Cole Herberts.
It's a major reality check when these holdbacks go from competing against mostly younger kids in Middle School to mostly older kids in High School. They more often than not struggle and it happens in high school.