B Hen GOES OFF ON trend of 8th graders red shirting for future college NIL bags | Club 520

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]have a lot of talk about eighth graders red shirting. Man, be a thought about you for this, man. Go ahead and play it.

[00:00:06]>> A growing number of middle school athletes are tapping into the red shirt trend in delaying their start to high school. I love it.

[00:00:14]>> Senior national correspondent William Lines is live from our West Coast newsroom. We're all interested to hear this. William, >> so Sandra, did your parents ever say, "You better get your grades up, little lady, or you're going to repeat eighth grade?" Well, now some 13-year-olds are doing it by choice, hoping to get into a better school, a bigger scholarship, or more NIL money.

[00:00:37]>> Now, we know this is not too uncommon, but this being a trend, it's kind of crazy. Y'all rolling. You supposed to be here?

[00:00:43]>> I don't know nothing about red shirting as eighth grade. I'm not familiar. I don't know [ __ ] about it. So, if this has been going on, I'm oblivious.

[00:00:52]>> They reclassing. They reclassing.

[00:00:55]Uh, respect.

[00:00:56]>> I get it. Um, and that's, like I said, eventually >> to me, I just feel like everybody's doing it to get the college back.

[00:01:05]>> Get as popular as you can. Now, obviously, you can make money in high school now with NIL or whatever they call it in Indiana.

[00:01:10]>> Uh, what they call it?

[00:01:12]>> PBA in Indiana.

[00:01:14]>> Personal branding activity.

[00:01:15]>> So, I get it. So, you're eighth grader going to ninth grader and you're not that good, but you will be the best player in the class below you. you make yourself popular so you can get some more money and hopefully get some college scholarships where you can get some NIL money and take care of your family. Um, that's the hustle right now.

[00:01:32]But like I said, eventually the rubber gonna meet the road.

[00:01:36]>> Yeah. Yeah. You going to have >> you not like that. You not going everybody. You stay back one grade. You still in your grade.

[00:01:42]>> For you to repeat eighth grade, go all the way through high school and still not get a college scholarship, you're a [ __ ] loser. What are you doing? You just wasting time.

[00:01:53]>> Yeah. And I'll be the first to tell you >> and your parents are [ __ ] losers.

[00:01:59]>> It's a lot of people made this [ __ ] >> get joned on and [ __ ] >> Yeah, bro.

[00:02:03]>> Off of him to be a nothing ass [ __ ] when he graduated.

[00:02:06]>> He ain't going to be nothing. But >> it's possible. A lot of them doing that for sports.

[00:02:10]>> Couple [ __ ] >> [ __ ] If I repeat the eighth grade, I go all through high school. This is the mental health [ __ ] You go through high school and I don't get a scholarship, [ __ ] It's over.

[00:02:21]>> I'm [ __ ] mentally, bro.

[00:02:23]>> Because I did all this [ __ ] for no reason.

[00:02:28]>> That is some loser ass [ __ ] bro.

[00:02:30]>> Yeah, it is. I mean, >> they don't see it that way.

[00:02:32]>> Y ain't supposed to say that. I just let me do it. But I'm telling you, >> I say that. I think if you reclass your kid, >> you sad, bro.

[00:02:40]>> They gonna be weak. Like they just not good. Some people I understand like if my kid is 11, if my kid going to graduate high school at 17.

[00:02:49]>> Yeah.

[00:02:50]>> I'm like, "Yo, you might just be too young for college."

[00:02:53]>> Yeah. When men are 25 now, >> that's different.

[00:02:55]>> No, I [ __ ] with that for sure.

[00:02:56]>> Cuz I was young, bro. I could have did reclass, but for what, bro? I'm already in this grade.

[00:03:01]>> Yeah, >> [ __ ] Either you good or you not, bro.

[00:03:03]>> You also was like, >> pause, but like you was more mature.

[00:03:08]>> You grew up in a household where you got your pops, you had brothers. Yeah. And >> so your attitude was more mature. We treated you like, "Nigga, you hung out with me when you was [ __ ] 10."

[00:03:17]>> Yeah.

[00:03:18]>> You was running around the neighborhood >> with [ __ ] 17 and you was 10, bro.

[00:03:23]>> Yeah.

[00:03:23]>> So you was more mature. Like some of these kids are like real life kids.

[00:03:27]>> Like you was watching rap videos and [ __ ] >> but they not even doing it for that reason. If they doing it for that, cool.

[00:03:32]They doing it for sports, bro.

[00:03:34]>> That's all I'm saying.

[00:03:34]>> Some pure athletics for what I'm saying.

[00:03:36]But like >> if they doing it for what you saying, >> cool.

[00:03:39]>> Yeah. But I'm saying obviously if they doing it for sports that mean they just not good enough.

[00:03:42]>> Exactly.

[00:03:43]>> But yeah, like I said, it don't mean you're ever going to be good enough.

[00:03:47]>> That is just tough on a kid, bro. I don't wish that on no baby, bro. To have to repeat a grade and still be sad.

[00:03:54]>> It used to be embarrassing back in the day, bro.

[00:03:55]>> But then like kids like AJ the Bans did.

[00:03:57]>> Oh lord. Like >> AJ did it.

[00:03:59]>> Yeah. A lot of people we know that did it.

[00:04:01]>> We talked about it like helping him.

[00:04:03]>> Yeah. Cuz he I mean this [ __ ] 6ix9ine.

[00:04:06]It's this nigga's I don't want to say nobody name on here. He didn't even need.

[00:04:09]>> But I know a [ __ ] that reclassed that used to be a part of the program, bro. I said, "Bro, you talk to the daddy. You 5'6.

[00:04:18]This [ __ ] mama 411 350."

[00:04:21]>> Yeah. If >> he ain't going out to bowl basketball, ain't it? Y'all making this [ __ ] do seventh grade again for no reason.

[00:04:29]>> He This budgy this little It's over, bro. He about to graduate now, [ __ ] He's 5'5.

[00:04:37]260.

[00:04:39]>> He already played football.

[00:04:40]>> He reclassed. No, he plays nothing.

[00:04:42]>> P seventh grade for no reason.

[00:04:44]>> No reason.

[00:04:46]>> So I'm just nothing, bro.

[00:04:48]>> It's a true story, too.

[00:04:49]>> So if he if your kid 68, 65, 66, uh, 66 and eighth grade, going to ninth grade, >> would you reclass him?

[00:04:58]>> Me personally, no. I just don't believe in making kids do a grade over. I I don't see it.

[00:05:03]>> If you don't really need it, bro.

[00:05:04]>> Like my kid has to really be slow. Like when we was growing up, >> you had to be slow to repeat a grade.

[00:05:10]>> Oh god.

[00:05:11]>> I'm old school.

[00:05:13]>> That's why like probably a lot of [ __ ] I say here probably get me cancelled. I don't give a [ __ ] But I'm old school, bro.

[00:05:19]>> If you had a repeat a grade, you was going to be crying.

[00:05:21]>> You was going back again, but we was torching you on that.

[00:05:23]>> Yeah, bro. [ __ ] could not come back to Shore Ridge, bro.

[00:05:26]>> These [ __ ] is doing it like >> and they going back to the same school, >> bro. That's crazy.

[00:05:30]>> Like what up?

[00:05:31]>> Yeah, bro.

[00:05:32]>> You want this lunch again, bro?

[00:05:33]>> Yeah. What's happening?

[00:05:34]>> That's crazy. That's a lie on a kid. I don't think a parent like, "Nigga, you still take your stupid ass to work. He got to walk these hallways." Like, [ __ ] like, "Why are you still in sixth grade?"

[00:05:44]>> That's a real kids are even more mean now, [ __ ] Like, >> and they got social media. They making clips of you.

[00:05:51]>> Yeah. I don't think that's why I be hating these [ __ ] parents, bro.

[00:05:54]>> It's so normal now. Like, that's what they do.

[00:05:56]>> [ __ ] if we hold if we getting held back, [ __ ] we moving to Cincinnati.

[00:05:59]>> Yeah, we got slide. We need a fresh start to have this [ __ ] still go to Warren Central.

[00:06:06]>> Let me not say that school. I guess that's too close to home for some [ __ ] But another school like I'm nothing, bro.

[00:06:13]>> That's like a leading scoreer on seventh grade. I can get it.

[00:06:17]>> He averaged 31 last year. He is definitely looking average, >> man. Respect though. Do what you want with your kids, man.

[00:06:23]>> Take care of them babies, man. Shout out to NCA, man. Uh Brad Short with reinstatement. Um they got denied. I think he has another opportunity. Um but yeah, he completed his 35 day of rehab for the gambling addiction and he will return to campus in upcoming days. His court date is going on a light 35 days a day. Hey, >> you know how much money he about to miss out on?

[00:06:43]>> He's he's the highest paid in college football.

[00:06:46]>> Yeah, he trying to get that chicken back. What was with six M's?

[00:06:48]>> Yeah, six or seven >> for being addicted to gambling.

[00:06:51]>> I gonna do another 35. Give me my money >> before the case came out.

[00:06:56]>> When the case came out, >> I do six months. Oh, he tried to get a head up.

[00:06:59]>> Yeah. Said I got a problem.

[00:07:00]>> Send me to the real joint.

[00:07:02]>> So over under little he going to get he going to get it cleared this year.

[00:07:06]>> How long you do it?

[00:07:07]>> For me to do 35 days and they still playing >> people shoot this [ __ ] >> Two games.

[00:07:12]>> Six months.

[00:07:13]>> I got six months.

[00:07:14]>> Two games suspension.

[00:07:15]>> Six months for six years >> for sure.

[00:07:17]>> I swear to God I do that.

[00:07:19]>> They about to ban >> and I don't want to go.

[00:07:20]>> If you don't mind me asking, I would I know we don't know our off, but I love to see if that is in Texas or not.

[00:07:25]>> That's actually like >> to send me to rehab. We've seen these these overturn miss. We thought it was quiet for him.

[00:07:30]>> He said himself though.

[00:07:32]>> Yeah.

[00:07:32]>> Oh, he sent himself.

[00:07:33]>> He tried to get ahead of you.

[00:07:34]>> He's saying I bet on the games I played in.

[00:07:37]>> He said no.

[00:07:38]>> He didn't bet on the games he played in.

[00:07:40]>> He said I didn't play.

[00:07:41]>> He said I was there but I ain't play >> [ __ ] You was at the school on the team. [ __ ] you can't bet.

[00:07:47]>> Yeah. Get this [ __ ] out of here.

[00:07:49]>> Ain't no way around.

[00:07:50]>> What the dude be saying this [ __ ] up >> for sure. Pack this [ __ ] up.

[00:07:53]>> All right, bro. I'm telling y'all. We We saw Old Miss quarterback. We thought he would get an extra year. If this case is in Texas, what do you do at aa for gambling?