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Originally Posted by Milan
I'm not familiar with the way the States runs High school football, do they run a Varsity type thing featuring every age group on one team or 2 different Junior/Senior teams?
But yeah that does sound weird...
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Most schools will have a junior varisty team and a varsity team. I think you can only play on JV 4 years, but I know that you can only play on the varsity team for 4 years. The most common approach I've seen is that after the 9th grade JV year, the JV players will then move to varsity level and stay from there, giving them 3 and 1/2 years of varsity football. Pretty much college football rules and NFL-type playoff, but nobody gets a bye.
There may be a rare case when an 8th grader will be so talented, that the coaches will let him play varsity. Then, they will play their 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th grade year, but they can NOT play their senior year.
Hope that helps!