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Running Scores Up ... Just saw where Wade Hampton girls ran the score up on Greer 17-0??? [list]

I'm a Greer parent. Goalie was injured during the game and since we had no subs for that game it just added to a long night. It was just another heartbreaking game. Trying our best to keep the program going.

Wow. Thats uh...no good at all. How do you shake hands with a coach after that?

Yea that is pretty bad.....

It's not like all of WHHS's team was trying to score. According to the paper, one girl had 4 goals,two girls had 3 goals, another girl had 2, and five had 1 goal each. Greer is trying to keep a team together. I hope the goalie is OK. How do you keep motivated after that?

It has to be difficult to lose by 17 goals, and I applaud Greer for finishing the game.
I think we need to remember these are children on the field and ask ourselves what do we accomplish in running a score up? Do we teach respect and compassion for a struggling program? Do we show support for all girls playing sports because we know it builds self esteem and healthy bodies? We as parents and coaches need to teach our girls respect to those who have the courage to step out on the field especially to those players who will play even when they know they are over matched.

The WHHS coach should have handled this situation better especially when Greer had a injured keeper. Hope Greer can find some goods things from this and keep moving forward.

So which is more humiliating to a team, to lose 15 - 0, or lose 8 - 0 while the winning team plays keep away for half a game. I don't know that there is any good answer for this. When you put all your subs in the game and you keep scoring, what do you do then? Tell your subs who, assuming they're weaker players, that they can't score or even try to score? If the players are laughing and ridiculing the losing team, that could be humiliating, but what about otherwise. A JV game I saw Monday night was like that, one team kept scoring, but not to humiliate or demean the opponent, but because it was easy to do and the defenders couldn't stop anything, sometimes didn't even look like they were trying. Keeper gets hands on the ball but drops it in the goal, or defender kicks it into the goal, what do you do then?

Why don't these teams sneak players off the field (play with 8-9) until the game reaches an equilibrium. Thought: still challenging the winning teams players (quicker play with more defenders) and giving the other team a chance to have some success on the field.