Here is the scenario: It's a scrimmage soccer game, and is the first "game" of the season. You are coaching a team that has had a program for over 25 years, and playing a team in only their second year of existence. Your school is 7 times the size of the other school.
After some time, the score of the game is getting very lopsided. Say, 8-0. You begin realizing that the only coaching you have left to do is to make sure that you aren't embarrassing the other team too much. How do you do this? Is it more embarrassing to deliberately not score goals that you could, to sub off players so you aren't using a full team, thus leaving yourself without your goal scorers, or to just let them take their beating and continue playing normally.
Again, assume it is 75 minutes into the game, and without timeouts, you cannot just tell your team not to score.
What is your move?
Sub out star players and let those who don't get a chance to play much some playing time. They practice and show up but don't often get to play much. Let them have some "game time" and if they score, so be it. The starters are out, you're not running up the score, and subs get some deserved playing time. Having starts deliberately miss the goal, pass off when open shot, etc. is embarassing and could be considered showing off.
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