Quote:Who cares if a kid gets a trophy at the end of the year for playing on the team?  I really could care less either way.

 

When I was a kid (and you too...) I got trophies at the end of the year for being on the team....they also gave out other individual trophies too.

 

For me it's about teaching the kids a lesson they have to learn in life, you won't always win and you won't always be the best. I got another kid on the team, he goes 100% in practice, hands down the fastest kid on my team, the hardest hitting kid on my team, but on gameday it takes one play to take him out of the game all day long.

 

If the other team has a player as fast or big as him, he quits no other way to put it. He doesn't know how to compete or God forbid lose, that's going to be a problem for him as he grows older.

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