Dapper Andy
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it's one of the nuances of sports; an unwritten rule, but a widely accepted understanding. once the win is assured, you try to play your second/third string to make the remainder of the game more equal and to give the scrubs a chance to get some game time experience
when a coach does that, and does not take advantage of every opportunity to run up the score, then he is found to have been a 'good sport'
[emphasis added by bubba]Benching your starters when a win is assured makes good coaching sense but I don't think there is anything wrong in doing everything you can to win as long as you're not being a dick about it. Sportsmanship is a two way street and sometimes a losing team has to learn you occasionally get the snot beaten out of you but you still have to be a good sport about it. Regardless of how much better one team was then the other, the winning team should not have been expected to basically quit.
Benching your starters when a win is assured makes good coaching sense but I don't think there is anything wrong in doing everything you can to win as long as you're not being a dick about it. Sportsmanship is a two way street and sometimes a losing team has to learn you occasionally get the snot beaten out of you but you still have to be a good sport about it. Regardless of how much better one team was then the other, the winning team should not have been expected to basically quit.
[emphasis added by bubba]
i agree with you
as a coach, you tell your kids to always play their best
to always play hard
to never give up on a play
the coach would be a hypocrite to then say "take it easy, don't try your best",
when the kids are winning by a huge margin
It's a two fold thing.Why would playing one's first-string players be considered unsportsman-like? Games are meant to be played to the best of your ability.
I think the parents of the winning team should sue the other teams parents for raising players that sucked so bad.
"Bully" is a silly term to apply here.
But if they had issues with it being "unsportsmanlike" - then they should have called the game of DURING THE GAME.
I never faced that in football, but when I was a teenager I played tournament baseball and I remember not liking the ten run rule that they had, where if one team was up by ten in the 6 or whatever inning that the game was over. Even when my team was getting beaten really bad like that I always thought "shouldn't we try to get as much practice as possible against teams like this?". The parents would always get mad if another team were trying to run up the score once they were past ten, and though I hated losing, I don't ever remember getting pissed. Learn your lesson, you're never gonna win them all, play better next time.
when I was in 7th grade. we played the "alternative" school in JV basketball. dudes had full beards and one guy even had a little kid in the stands. score was 60+ to zip at halftime. we cried and begged the coach not to make us go back out for the 2nd half. He told us to "man up". basically what you said. sometimes you get the crap beaten out of you and learning how to lose is just as important as learning how to win. final score was somewhere around 130-5. I hit a jumper from the top of the key (this was pre 3 pointer) and a free throw and another kid hit two free throws.
I recommend that everybody who sees this "father" in the streets give him a wedgie. :mrgreen:
Just curious. Did you feel great about the fact that you were able to do something nobody else on your team was able to do? I mean score against a great team?
dude, the way our team and fans reacted, you would have thought I hit a buzzer beater to win the NBA title.
Well at least on a personal level, it was important to finish that game so you and the fans could feel that way. There is something to be said for doing a good job even if you lose.
it builds character.
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