Mr. Goins wrote a column in Sundays paper that appeared on the front page of the Region section. Mr Goins mentioned teaching kids sportsman ship in youth sports and I agree with him on his stance. I played youth sports and high school sports and was taught sportsmanship and class by my high school coaches as well as my youth league coaches.
I coach youth league sports now and I have witnesssed some pretty pathetic displays of sportsmanship in some youth league coaches, especially baseball. I have seen coaches score as many runs as they can. I think this is a lack of class. You also see some very poor sportsmanship from the parents in the stands as well and this translates to the kids. When mom and dad are bad sports, so are the kids.
When you have coaches intentially run up the scores in youth games it is bad and their day will come when they get a dose of their own medicine!
I believe this was the case with the youth football game Mr. Goins mentioned in his article. I am aware of the two youth programs that he mentioned. Mr. Goins has failed to mention that team that got scored on again with 3 seconds left in the game, also done the same thing last year!
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