11 year old told not to score too many touchdowns

[REALteach4u]

All this is teaching this kid and others is that if you have the true talent and ability to succeed that they WILL hold you back so you cannot succeed. Factor in that this particular kid is a minority and you have an issue that looks very bad. That IS NOT what needs to be taught. What does need to be taught is how to get the rest of the team involved so that they aren't depending on one player.

I was able to witness a father who was successful in soccer through college teaching his son how to play defense even though he was the primary goal scorer on the team. His dad said this: Son, do you see that girl over there? She looks talented, so why don't you go help her by making sure no one else can take the ball from her.

 

[since9]

Oh relax, folks. He's free and clear next season. In the meantime, his compatriots actually get to play football this year.

As one who was the youngest one sitting on the bench in one state, and after a simple move the one who kicked butt in another state, I get it.

ETA: Perhaps they should group players as much by ability and weight as they do by age.

 

[Aknazer]

All this is teaching this kid and others is that if you have the true talent and ability to succeed that they WILL hold you back so you cannot succeed. Factor in that this particular kid is a minority and you have an issue that looks very bad. That IS NOT what needs to be taught. What does need to be taught is how to get the rest of the team involved so that they aren't depending on one player.

I was able to witness a father who was successful in soccer through college teaching his son how to play defense even though he was the primary goal scorer on the team. His dad said this: Son, do you see that girl over there? She looks talented, so why don't you go help her by making sure no one else can take the ball from her.

Why does his skin color matter? People that make an issue out of skin color are the reason we still have racism issues and failed things like affirmative action. Skin color flat out shouldn't matter.

 

[frommycolddeadhands]

SNIPI know I'm not going to win and I agree that too many "sports" are becoming soft (like when I watched my little brother play basketball and they didn't keep score)...SNIP.

I think a lot of it depends on what sort of game is being played. Back in middle school me and my buddies would go out on the basketball court and just shoot freethrows and layups for hours without ever actually keeping score, simply because we wanted to get better at it. (in middle school we were pretty horrible at basketball)

When we were actually playing a game, however (whether it was basketball, baseball, football, or soccer) we had a couple of teachers who would try to pull the whole "Oh, we're not going to keep score today children, just play for fun".

HA! Baloney. There may not have been a scoreboard lit up, but every kid on the field knew what the score was. Every time someone scored a point they'd announce it. Just because the teacher wouldn't keep score didn't mean we didn't. We knew who won & lost. The teacher would always stand firmly by the losing team and declare that there were no winners or losers because we were just playing for fun, and there were no points.

Baloney again. The losers knew they lost, and resented the teacher saying that they hadn't. The winners knew they won, and the next day the losers were itching to settle the score. That's what made it fun!

 

[since9]

The teacher would always stand firmly by the losing team and declare that there were no winners or losers because we were just playing for fun, and there were no points.

Does getting one's teaching credentials involve a lobotomy?

 

[okboomer]

Does getting one's teaching credentials involve a lobotomy?

Nah, from what I saw, you have to be a card-carrying liberal

 

[DonRow]

Oh this is so true, I coached two championship midget teams, and there were two games that I remembered the score was 36 zip, one was 36 zip at the end of the first half, and we had to stop scoring touchdowns or risk forfeit of the game. That sucked some major b***s for the kids, they never understood why they couldn't score anymore. it was more demoralizing for them then trying to make them feel good it's a crappy ass rule. Turning or future men into a bunch of sissy.


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[RetiredOC]

Perhaps instead of making a rule that person X cannot score touch downs, they could encourage him to use more team work and perhaps place him in some more "support" positions, or at least rotate him into different positions on the team. Or do I not know what I am talking about? (I know nothing about football to be honest - huge dissapointment to my father lol)

 

[DonRow]

Lol, we were running or second and third string in the second half. And we had to stop them from scoring touchdowns to.


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