What goes around comes around. 3 years ago, my first year in Darlington, we regularly got beat by big scores. I never really wanted to end the game early. Neither did my players. We played Northwestern that first year. I knew my boys were going to get pasted, so did they. But it gave me an opportunity to show kids soccer like they had never seen, not on a video, but first hand. You need to use those moments as coaching opportunities. Last year, we were able to return the favor to a couple of those teams, beating them like they beat us.
This year my guys don't want to put forth the right kind of effort in practice they need to. If they get the scored ran up on them, it serves them right. In my situation, my players needed the humbling experience. Practice is much better since they got hammered.
