Should I throw the game?

[Injury]

Let some of your players try new positions, let the kids who have played the least play the most... ask your team what fun things they'd like to try.

Just have fun, and make sure the other team is having fun too.

 

[murphy55d]

The only thing I would consider is playing some of your backups a little more.

 

[Svnla]

Play more of your backup players and rotate more often.

 

[Deeko]

I've been on teams on both ends of the spectrum.

They will expect to get steamrolled by your team, its not gonna be that demoralizing.

Play your backups, but don't play any less hard.

 

[gw186]

Rudy Rudy Rudy Rudy Rudy!!!!!!!

 

[Liviathan]

Play the bench players...and let the rest take care of itself.

 

[HamSupLo]

give the other team no mercy. Run the bootleg with the score 42-0 in your favor.

 

[GasX]

You have to ask yourself a simple question.

What is best in life?

It is also important to teach your kids the proper answer to this question as early in their lives as possible.

Of course the answer is:

To crush your enemies,
See them driven before you,
And hear the lamentaions of their women...

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
You have to ask yourself a simple question.

What is best in life?

It is also important to teach your kids the proper answer to this question as early in their lives as possible.

Of course the answer is:

To crush your enemies,
See them driven before you,
And hear the lamentaions of their women...

That almost sounds like the way a barbarian would answer

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Crush them. Pound them until the choke on their own worthless, weak tears.

Then, take you team out for pizza.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
You have to ask yourself a simple question.

What is best in life?

It is also important to teach your kids the proper answer to this question as early in their lives as possible.

Of course the answer is:

To crush your enemies,
See them driven before you,
And hear the lamentaions of their women...

Wise words, sir, wise words, indeed.

 

[skace]

Send in your benchwarmers and tell them to do their best.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
Crush them. Pound them until the choke on their own worthless, weak tears.

Then, take you team out for pizza.

Is that how you approach all of your trials?

 

[tynopik]

tell them that you want to see how they respond to a challenge

since the other team isn't going to provide a challenge, you're going to give them one

then proceed to make them run windsprints, suicides, whatever till they throw up and can't move

then let them play the other team

 

[Chronoshock]

I remember when I player soccer when I was younger and my team was beating the pants off another team. Our coach made us use our non-dominant feet to try to even things up. Maybe make the QB throw with his non-dominant hand?

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Let the benchwarmers get some playtime.

- M4H

:thumbsup:

 

[dquan97]

Draft and try out some new plays. Triple reverse? QB going out for a pass?

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
Crush them. Pound them until the choke on their own worthless, weak tears.

Then, take you team out for pizza.

Is that how you approach all of your trials?

no, thats just what hes used to having happen to him.

MIKE

 

[silverpig]

Phone up the good kids on your team and tell them the game time has changed to real time + 60 minutes... by mistake of course

 

[badmouse]

FIRST and SECOND GRADE, and you're asking this???

Play the damned game any way you want.

Then, go home and think about what you are doing to those kids. They don't need to be taught competitiveness, it happens all by itself quite nicely. At this age, they need to get out and play for fun. The ALL need to exercise and run and do all those sport-type things, and no one should EVER be on the bench any longer than anyone else.

The good kids should be thrown off the team because they skew things for everybody else. Ages 6 and 7 are too young to be doing all the complicated things that it takes to win consistently at this kind of game. Instead, they should be building up a base of fitness, cooperation, rudimentary rules, learning to take coaching, and good sportsmanship. It's much too soon for the kind of physical stress that comes with specialized positions and overly intense competition.

These are kids, idiot. They aren't grown enough to know who will be the right size and athleticism when they ARE old enough to play competitively. Your good kids will probably "burn out" and the ones that will turn out to be the REAL athletes won't play because they had such horrible experiences at this young age.

Can you TRULY go to sleep at night knowing that you have given a safe, appropriate, healthy play experience to EVERY KID on your team AND on the teams that they play against?

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate
Crush them. Pound them until the choke on their own worthless, weak tears.

Then, take you team out for pizza.

Is that how you approach all of your trials?

no, thats just what hes used to having happen to him.

MIKE

LOL. Only occasionally.

What is with the MIKE thing?

 

[Yossarian]

spot the other team 42 points and play your normal game.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

No, do not LET the other team win. Your team has worked hard to become one of the best, is that fair to them to make them lose? No. Put in your second string, but if you start to lose, put in your better guys. I know how it is to be on the winning and losing teams, and letting them win is not going to make them feel much better. Little kids will still realize that the best players of your team are on the bench, and they will not feel victorious if they beat your crappy players. Just play your team, they got to the place that they are now, they should keep going. Don't screw up their record.

+Brent

 

[tynopik]

you said they were getting sloppy in practice?

then at the end of practice, say how disappointed you are in them for wasting practice and you expect them to show up to the game 45 mins early for a 'make-up' practice that will mostly involve running them to exhaustion

kill two birds with one stone:
1. not humiliate the other team as bad
2. you can be sure the next you get on them about slacking off in practice, they'll listen!

 

[anno]

you can't explain too much to these kids because they are 6 and 7 years old and by definition have NO tact. and they're going to see these kids on the other team at school or scouts or church and they're gonna say you know you only won because we let you.. or you know we let you score.. and nobody is going to learn anything or get any sort of healthy self-esteem boost out of that.

you can tell them you're letting the players that have played a lot rest up some before the playoffs, and are giving the players that haven't played as much some extra experience so you can all be even better for the next game. you can tell them they have first playoff spot sewn up so even if they lose they won't lose that, so just go out there and have a good time. but you can't tell them anything that implies that the other team is not good. they may come to that conclusion themselves but you really don't want to be responsible for planting that idea.

if I was a parent of a child on either team, that's what I'd want you to do. having the other team lose deliberately, or worse yet just run the ball around to hold the score down.. is just as humiliating as losing badly.. maybe even more so.