Canadian Soccer League Controversial Rule - Score more than 5 goals and you lose

[Lion Sack]

This is ridiculous. For one, it is dishonest to penalize a team because its members trained harder and performed much better than the other one. Also, such a rule discourages a team from giving their best performance, which should be what sports is about. Our society seems intent on cuddling our kids and shielding them from losing in sports/failing in school and its sad. Failure is a very important part of life and learning how to deal with it in a positive way is critical for success in adulthood.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/05/30/14193431.html

 

[stigmajones]

Truly ridiculous . The best team loses , You usually run into these situations because the adults have failed to level out the talent pool on each team or match a team to the correct tier. Instead of league supervisors dealing with some immature coaches they bastardize the game and penalize everybody .

If they want to minimize humiliation I would suggest that the first team to be 5 goals ahead wins .

 

[Cally]

Failure is a very important part of life and learning how to deal with it in a positive way is critical for success in adulthood.

Yes but who gets the blame?, the parents that want to protect their children by being over protective?.

 

[Simon]

Bunch of wackos running that league, how are kids going to learn to succeed if they don't fail first. Sometimes I wonder why the space cadets that run the leagues don't think before making such a dumm ass rule.

 

[Canary]

They said “We didn’t just pull this out of thin air, there is a modified precedent for this,” Cale said, adding many ringette organizations will dock a team points if they score excessively.

 

[neko_chaness]

Game would be over in 10 minutes. I coach my 12 year old's hockey team, some teams have highly skilled players while others don't. I teach them to play to win but also teach them not to kick an old dog when he is down. Many times the kids themselves slow down not to embarass the opposing team. Its very hard to come up with a simple solution.

[video=youtube;HoedHDZER7k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoedHDZER7k[/video]

 

[lex]

Ringette pretty much says it all doesn't it.

 

[vordusckin]

Here you go Maurice.

http://www.ringette.ca/content/splash.asp

 

[Tyler S]

If you tell the kids to ease up and not try as hard, that's sending a message that the other team needs to be babied and protected. That's even more humiliating to the other team, I believe.

 

[gusgus]

Good point but not if its done in a discerningly manner. It does not mean the other team needs to be babied and protected, its called courtecy.

 

[Bowling for some Soup]

Bosco doesn't play ringette.