high school soccer coach apologized after letting a player score 17 goals against winless team

[RockRaven]

3. Teenagers are... teenagers, so I can't expect the player in question to have perfect insight, but

even a run-of-the-mill self-centered, dumbassed, no-perspective jerk would understand that setting a record like that against obviously hapless opponents is no record at all. Especially in high school sports.

I played various sports in high school and I definitely witnessed multiple individual regional/state records at certain events, including when my teammates were involved. You know how many of those records I could recall the details of (names, numbers, etc) a decade or so later? Zero, zip, nada, none, fuck-all. High school sports records are the weakest of weak sauces.

Some shame on that player. Tons of shame on that coach.

FFS, if nothing else, use that game time to get your team to practice things/scenarios not focused on that one player, or focused on him setting up his teammates. It's a team sport and you've presumably got other opponents to play in the future who will be tougher competition.

Narcissistic morons. SMH.