Texas team stops trying to score, celebrates 32-point loss to Yates
Many people who read that article will have many different responses to it. My response is as remedial as it gets THAT COACH SHOULD BE FIRED. Lets face it, anyone who knows me knows that my travel ball teams don't wipe the floor with everyone, but they play hard and we play to win, in garbage time we don't create a new goal to have a moral victory, we might work on some things, but we have one goal in mind, keep getting men on and score some freaking runs, and keep gunning for the "W". If we tried for a moral victory we would not get any better as a unit or as individuals, that coach abandoned his entire offensive set, for a moral victory....now I know what is wrong with sports today. I used to wonder but now i know. That would be like me telling every player to purposely make an out so we could keep the team from running the score up on us and end the game quicker...idiocy.
That is not to say I am a fan of running up the score either, but this was a high school team not a youth 9u or coach pitch team. And some people will say what's the difference....for those people I would have to say "GROW UP" a high school athlete and their staff should be mentally capable to handle losing big or winning big by the sheer number of years they have been in competition. Especially at the varsity level where its about a state title not a pinto league championship. All the varsity players are old enough to get behind the wheel of a car and handle that responsibility, so why shelter them from a big loss and why not demand them to aspire for more, and to learn from the loss. Abandoning one side of my game teaches me nothing except how to not compete and take my lumps. A youth athlete is just learning to play, and I do believe that as coaches we teach them to win, and win with class, and to finish out a game. We keep our game plan, but I do pull starters when the game is out of hand to get the non starters experience and "PT". I cannot tolerate the youth coach who keeps his studs in the game and never subs or reenters a starter when the game is out of hand, teach players to sit the bench too as that is part of the game and a coaches responsibility. We as coaches have to understand its never about us, its about the growth of our players abilities.
I am not saying play nice, I am saying teach kids to compete. What that coach did was mail it in and tell his player to not strive for victory and to play it safe and worse subliminally he said they were not good enough to perform, he had to spin it for them.....a true political win. I am not and will never be a trophies for all type guy, I am not a must feel good type of coach either, nor am I a win at all cost guy. I was raised to believe that athletics is about competition, dedication, commitment and fun, and playing hard win or lose. It is true that you will learn more from losing than from winning, we don't learn to like losing but its the losses that build fires for success, masking it only hurts our kids and that is not coaching.
The reality is simple....athletics always had and always will have winners and losers but its what we teach and learn during those years that creates the best memories.
