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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Mr. Wolff said the players were aware a defeat to Bassick would drop them to Division II — an assistant coach had told them — but that they didn’t play to lose. “That’s ridiculous,” he said. “The guys who were on the floor were trying their hardest. There is no way anyone can say we weren’t trying to win that game.”
After going most of the season with seven regulars, the Tigers played four seldom-used players and one who had not seen any varsity action against Bassick. That irregular substitution pattern caught the eye of several FCIAC coaches, ...
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Classic example of the coach using faulty logic for his argument. No one accused the
players of trying to lose. It was the coach's "irregular substitution pattern" that got them in trouble. And then he acts all innocent...
