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In reply to the discussion: high school soccer coach apologized after letting a player score 17 goals against winless team [View all]Paladin
(28,280 posts)80. 17 soccer goals? What's that the equivalent of in football: 119-0?
That coach should be without a job.
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Demovictory9
Oct 2021
OP
Of course they do. People do have vast differences of opinion as to which ones and how much, though.
Celerity
Oct 2021
#18
You're confusing significance with value as assigned by potential to distract.
Act_of_Reparation
Oct 2021
#19
I am confusing nothing. Do you say the same about art, music, film, etc, as you do about sport?
Celerity
Oct 2021
#20
I refuse to use reductionist essentialism when making value judgements pertaining to human endeavour
Celerity
Oct 2021
#27
I like that the United States doesn't follow and instead made their own name
jimfields33
Oct 2021
#48
You didn't make your own name, you use an antiquated name from the UK because 'football'
Celerity
Oct 2021
#53
Teenagers are... teenagers, so I can't expect the player in question to have perfect insight, but
RockRaven
Oct 2021
#3
When my daughter was 5 years old or so she played soccer on a co-ed team . . .
Journeyman
Oct 2021
#5
For god's sake, hubby coached middle school soccer and always pulled his kids back when the score
GPV
Oct 2021
#6
It's definitely a shit move by the winning team. Bringing it up at a school board meeting, though,
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 2021
#22
As a competitive athlete, seems to be what the game is about. I think I would be handling the loss
LizBeth
Oct 2021
#24
Seriously? And losing is part of the sportsmanship that doesn't qualify with a whine.
LizBeth
Oct 2021
#68
It wasn't really a game, it was a way to get their star player into the record books
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#31
To the losers: You earned your humiliation, try not to suck so hard. Try practicing more.
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#29
What? All these other people commenting on this story, why do you choose to respond
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#33
?--how so? The losing team stunk, they know it. They should up their game.
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#52
Up their game? I wonder why that never occurred to them. It's all about winning and kicking ...
marble falls
Oct 2021
#76
Why don't you explain to us how they earned their humiliation? That is probably what others are get
Russian Spook
Oct 2021
#61
I said they EARNED it. When you don't play well at all, and the other side
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#67
I suppose. I just don't see it as a big deal, to stink and lose a game badly.
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2021
#71
And by "humiliate" you mean "continue to play by the rules both teams agreed to"?
brooklynite
Oct 2021
#81
I'm really loving some of the ideas in this thread that somehow wouldn't be humiliating.
Lancero
Oct 2021
#51
In most professional football leagues, if you're a lousy team, you get dumped...
brooklynite
Oct 2021
#60
tbh those State and Nat'l records will look good on Scholarship/College Applications...
WarGamer
Oct 2021
#64
When I was a kid playing baseball the first year our team was all very young kids.
GulfCoast66
Oct 2021
#72
I am not much of a soccer fan, but I thought the goal was to score as many goals as possible.
totodeinhere
Oct 2021
#88