Winning is important to kids. Along the way we've convinced ourselves that participating is a victory. Participation trophies is a problem.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Lots of people weighing in here who didn't play high school women's basketball. What would you guys know?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

No problem. I can't agree with you on this one.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

How do you know I wasn't the south central IL version of Juwanna Mann?

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Do you actually know if the kids wanted to lose or if their coach told them to? Since Rick mentioned it as someone who played 2 sports in high school, played 2 NCAA sports in college, currently still plays in volleyball, baseball, and softball leagues, is an IHSA ref/ump in softball, soccer, and basketball and coaches 7 Special Olympic sports, I don't feel the need to live vicariously through the victories of children.

Yeah I wasn't being serious.

Maybe one coach could have force fed his team some gluten while sneaking some vaccinations on the other team.

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both coaches are losers. message is: you're not good enough to win the championship fair and square, but maybe you can beat a couple of scrub teams in the tournament which will make my resume look better.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I'm not sure which parent I hate more. The one who claps,yells,coughs during free throws of a 5th grade basketball game or the ones who make there 6,7,8 year olds cut weight for wrestling. Actually the weight cutter is probably worse but both should be hit by a bus.

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Shooting on the wrong basket is generally a good sign. The kids are smart enough to understand what winning and losing means. Just like adults are. I'm not sure what the rest of your post is supposed to mean.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

this really happens?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Yes. Bantam State is a big deal.

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Watch the videos. If "winning" is worth playing like that, it's pathetic. I'd like to feel bad for the kids that they both got disqualified, but not after seeing it, they don't deserve to play on.

Adults that think like you do when it comes to these issues drive me crazy. It's like you all live in some fantasy world where kids of all ages are stupid and helpless.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Yeah, the heckling parent is bad but the cutting weight parent should be investigated by DCFS or something. That's insane.

I didn't wrestle as a kid but I've seen it in football. There was a 125 lb weight limit and you would see kids running with trash bags in order to make weight. Didn't mean anything to me then but I couldn't imagine doing that to one of my kids.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

My dad was against two sports. Football (concussion) or Wrestling (diet) and that was when I was 12, 13 years old.

I think its insane at those ages, 6,7,8 is ridiculous.

My grandmother was against football. She thought I was too small (in high school) to play. I forged her name and by the time she found out that I was playing I had some success and she didn't put up a fight.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Stupid and helpless? I watched the video and just stated it was on the kids for what they did.

Adults that think like you do when it comes to these issues drive me crazy. It's like you all live in some fantasy world where winning a game is the greatest achievement a kid can hope for and any means necessary to achieve it (or in this case not achieve it) is valid. The teams don't get a better draft pick next year, they don't get more international spending money, and they don't get a weaker strength of schedule. Instead of just losing (which they were going to do anyway eventually because they weren't even the best team in the sectional) and knowing they lost to a better team (and if they didn't know it then should have had no issue playing them in the sectional championship), they embarrassed their schools and themselves and are now on probation for the next year. Lesson learned.

Fair enough.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

i would've brought a sign that said "hands up don't shoot".

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