A high school basketball team wins a game 161-2 and the winning coach is suspended.
I confess to having several reactions:
- You don't want to rub it in but you also don't want to insult the other team by treating them in a condescending manner. [I recall playing on some losing Little League baseball teams. Losing by a huge amount would have been better than feeling that the other team was just toying with us.]
- Why did they suspend the coach? Couldn't they have simply had a conversation about it? Does everything need to be formalized?
- One of the article's comments had a good point: At what point does the lead become "running up the score?" Is it at 50 points? 75 points? 103 points?
- This is a sport. Some days you lose big. When you do, you don't boo-hoo about it. You work on getting better.
- If they take the right lessons from this, the players on the losing team may eventually benefit far more than the ones on the winning team.
[HT: Drudge Report]
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