Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
I suspect you're wrong. I've never coached at that level, but have worked with youth sports for many years. You train, you develop, you encourage, you get them riled up so that they play better than they ever thought they could.
But you
never snow them. You
never tell them things that you know not to be true. You may not necessarily tell them everything you know(

), but you don't BS them. They will
always see right through that.
I'm not wrong. Tennessee was capable of winning that game. I was there. They played well. If a couple of things had gone differently, it could easily have been a different outcome. The Volunteers were playing to win. And it's not "youth sports" where everybody gets a trophy for participating.