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Originally Posted by BillyMac

OK. I can agree with some of what you say. Maybe some games are more important to me than other games,

Billy, somewhere along the way, you switched what you're talking about. Your original comment, and what I disagreed with was:

Every game is the most important game being played anywhere tonight for these kids, fans, and coaches.

You were not talking about games that were important to you for some reason. You stated that the game was "the most important game being played anywhere" to the kids. That's just fiction. Have you ever worked a game on the same night that Duke/UNC is on ESPN? The kids (some of the boys, anyway) can't WAIT to get the game over so they can go watch the big boys.

don't the coaches, and parents, deserve our best effort?

Of course they do, and I never said otherwise. The fact that the game isn't the most important game in the world at that moment doesn't mean that we're not going work hard.

Furthermore, I have never worked a "meaningless" game in twenty-seven years, and if I ever do, that's when I hang up my whistle.

Again, I never said anything about any game being meaningless. I just don't like this mystical importance that you're attaching to every game. It's melodramatic, and I understand it's for a reason (motivation to do your best), but it's just not true.