A coach even a mother couldn't love :(

[amusedofficial]

We have a coach drubbing the opposition. He continually reduces the caliber of player on the court -- beginning with taking the starters out, then going deeper and deeper to his bench (and perhaps his imagined bench).

It's a camp? Absent formal requirements on rostering and eligibility, I'm not having a big problem with a coach avoiding humiliating an opponent by sitting kids who outclass the opposition (unless the depths to which he reached to get players on the court is, in an of itself, humiliation)

But again, I'm not very bright so I might have missed something.

[Back In The Saddle]

Reducing the caliber of players is one thing. But when you start ad hoc suiting up 6th graders and sending them in a varsity game, especially kids that are not even on the team...that's not avoiding humiliation. That's heaping humiliation onto the other team.

And, at that point, it ceases to be a contest because, to the losing kids' credit, they pulled back and let the little kids shoot, pulled up at times to make sure they didn't accidentally hurt one of the little kids. Though they did swat away a last second shot attempt by one of the little guys.

Yes, I believe there are some age restrictions. At least when I asked a younger player before one game why he was sitting across the court from his varsity team and, "Aren't you a starter?" the kid smiles and says, "Yeah, but I'm too young to play in this game." Not exactly authoritative, but certainly suggestive that there is some age restrictions for varsity play at least.