100 - 0 win. Winners apologize?

[Mondt]

Scouts + Less competition = Better chance.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Mondt

Scouts + Less competition = Better chance.

But you simply cannot demonstrate how good you are if your opposition is crap. If yuo score 40 points in a game because there is no defence the scout is going to see that and ignore it. Scouting is not about stats, it's about spoting potential.
Thrasing weak opponents takes little skill and you can't show your, say, tacital nouse if the opponents have no defence set-up or your super fakes if you not being marked properly.

As for wanting your opponent to play as hard as they can, they already established that in the first half. This is not one team being simply better than the other, this is a complete gulf of class.
When the other team is that much better than you you won't learn anything if they just completely dominate you. It the same as when I'm teaching someone to play sports I don't play all out at the start, I play gentle so they can learn from me at slower paces and less intensity.

[MasterOfMagic]

Hey, kids get hurt in sports. Knew a guy once who'd had three knee surgeries in two years, and more after that. He played football. Completely ruined his chances for playing for college. A lot of times, they DO try to hurt the star players.

Edit: Also was friends with a wrestler. Gary actually lost his match because the other guy twisted his knee straight out of its socket. It counted. He was never able to wrestle again and he's living in constant pain due to all the damage to the cartilage.

Well, the point was that things like this are horrible, and one shouldn't really think encouraging it is okay in any circumstance.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by MasterOfMagic

Well, the point was that things like this are horrible, and one shouldn't really think encouraging it is okay in any circumstance.

That was pretty much my point. It happens and shouldn't be taken lightly. The post in question just came off as a bit flippant to me, I guess.

[MasterOfMagic]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

That was pretty much my point. It happens and shouldn't be taken lightly. The post in question just came off as a bit flippant to me, I guess.

Ah, it sounded like you were somehow trying to defend this: "If I were the coach of the next team to play them I'd tell my players to try and injure as many of theirs as possible because it isn't against the rules." which is what the person you quoted was sarcastically replying to.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by MasterOfMagic

Ah, it sounded like you were somehow trying to defend this: "If I were the coach of the next team to play them I'd tell my players to try and injure as many of theirs as possible because it isn't against the rules." which is what the person you quoted was sarcastically replying to.

No, my point was more that it really does happen and that it should be taken more seriously.

The worst part is that Gary's coach tried to talk him into coming back after that injury because he was a good heavyweight wrestler. Gary was trying to actually lose weight to help make walking less painful. Some of these coaches show absolutely no concern for kids' well-being.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Krylo

All I'm saying is that in every competitive thing I've ever done, from video games, to sports, to, I don't know, competitive baking--it has always, always, made me feel a million times worse to have whoever I was up against decide that I was so bad that they didn't even need to try than to just be completely and irrevocably defeated.

Especially on the occasions I didn't find out they weren't trying their best until later.

There's a certain... feeling of honor or accomplishment in standing up to someone better than you who's doing their best, even if you lose. Even if you lose completely and indelibly.

To find out they weren't even trying cheapens and destroys even that.

Maybe I'm the only person in the world who feels this way? I don't know. Whatever. I just know I'd rather lose 100-0 than to have them back off in the second half and start handling me with kiddy gloves. If whoever you're up against keeps on doing the best they can--even when you're losing--it at least shows that they think you're worth trying. You guys think it's poor sportsmanship NOT to back off--I think it's poor sportsmanship TO back off. To stop trying is the far greater insult to another person or team.

The thing that I find mismatched here is that the other team in all probability wasn't particularly trying at all. A team that holds another team to 50-0 in the first place is not going to be a team that is required to play their all regardless. Yeah there's a feeling of accomplishment in standing up to someone better than you who's doing their best, but there's not a whole lot of that in getting kicked down by someone better than you who continues kicking just to show how hard they don't have to try in order to do it. I mean for chrissakes a full court press? That's not someone kicking your ass in Street Fighter, it's someone kicking your ass in Street Fighter with one hand while he jerks his dick with the other and then when he wins he spooges on your sneakers. That's playing Soul Calibur and some douche setting up that 64-button combo attack that nobody ever actually uses in a competitive game because who the fuck has time for that, because they know you can't do shit to stop them and they wanna show how awesome they are by having Ivy tapdance on your face.

[bluestarultor]

UPDATE:

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=904726


Apparently, the winning coach has been fired.

[Fifthfiend]

My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

Sounds like there's a coach who's mastered that special style of FucknCrazy.

"My values wouldn't allow me to be a douche, therefore, the incredibly douchey thing I just did can't actually be douchey, because then I would be a douche! Which I am not! instead, what would be douchey would have been not being a douche, which I didn't do, because I am! Which means I'm not!

Wheeeeee!"

[Ugainius]

I have to agree with fifth. There is a point Where the whole hating being pitied thing gets overrideen by a sensation of uselessness.