- Dec 11, 2010
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This is a really great observation.The coach is saying to the kids, "You are not good enough to win the game. And, you are too emotionally weak to experience failure." Awful, awful, awful.
I always have thought that a coach who engages in shenanigans, especially with young kids, teaches them that they aren’t good enough to win without shenanigans.
I always go back to my daughters 10u coach that wouldn’t play the shoe tying or switch pitchers game at the end of a time limit game. He totally communicated the message in many ways that we were there to play and we would win by playing the game. When we didn’t win, we would work on it in practice on Tuesday and Thursday. That guy and his assistants were everything that was right about sports.