I think you hit the nail on the head. Coaches always want the stronger more mature player which is the fundamental problem because it’s become a drug to them. Time to level the field rather than have such a huge disparity in ages which inevitably leads to recruiting disparities and the haves and have nots with basically only 6 teams capable of winning it all in a given year. Redshirt injury year is Ok but anything beyond that is essentially a gateway drug to 6th, 7th+ years. A few years ago we celebrated the Rutgers player who played a jillion years and this year we cried when the the Virginia player was denied a 7th year. Oh no!!! The tragedy! Time to get off daddy’s dime and go live the rest of your life and become a productive member of that workforce. Some people need to holdback for a real reason but the majority? Simply To gain an advantage (and it is an advantage) because you couldn’t compete on age? The sport would be perfectly fine if everyone is on age and no one would miss a beat. Now it’s limited to a few colleges, clubs and prep schools.