I don't see how youth can be blamed for what we've seen this year. Maybe it's an easy excuse but that's all it is an excuse for failure. The reality, at least in my mind, is a lot of these guys just aren't consistently good. They can look good in a SSS but over time they can't maintain it.
At this point these guys need to "prove it" and if they can't we are in for a long and sad period of at best mediocrity.