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Re: Connecticut High School Football Screams Uncle
« Reply #1 on: May 26th, 2006, 10:00pm » |
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Okay,... everybody's remaining tight-lipped  on this,... so I'll give my take... I, ultimately, think this is pathetic on all fronts. It's pathetic on the parts of coaches, stuck at the high school level, mind you, who derive any satisfaction from running up the score in a game being played by KIDS. On the other hand, it's pathetic on the parts of the other coaches and schools, who make their schedules and require this rule, which is reminiscent of the 10-run rule in place in most Little Leagues around the nation. There is a MAJOR difference between 7-to-13-year-olds on the brink of junior high school and high school... or third grade and 16-to-18-year-olds on the brink of college or the real world. The former still requiring sheltering and coddling; the latter need to start dealing. That having been said, there is NO need for sadistic coaches who do not play reserve players when games are in the bag, instead opting to pile it on and continue to humiliate their opponents with their starters. They need to be dealt with/disciplined, not by some blanket rule, though, but on a case-by-case basis. On the contrary, you can't go sending your 2nd, 3rd or 4th stringers out there, telling them not to do their best. That's not "fair" to them. That's their chance, for goodness sake, and that's something that needs to be remembered by coaches on BOTH sides of this debate! This rule sends the wrong message to our seemingly ever-softening American youth (late teenagers, that is). It sends them the false message that in the "real" world there are artificial equalizers or delimiters when there really aren't. If we want to produce Americans primed for success, we have to prepare our late-teenage youth for the real world where things aren't necessarily fair and it's about making the best of the cards you've been dealt as opposed to trying to stack the deck in your favor. Indeed, what needs to be taught is achievement in the face of the odds, succeeding when, in fact, the deck has been stacked against you whether fairly or unfairly, and, furthermore, fostering the idea that part of the definition of success is taking the higher road.
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