Ep 34 we lost by 14 and the coaches acted like it was fine.

https://heysammi.com/  how should coaches handle a blowout loss? a mom in orlando wrote to me after her kids' team lost by 14 goals, left the field devastated, and watched the coaches pack up the cones like it was tuesday. in this episode i do something she might not expect: i defend those coaches, mostly. kids find out how big a loss is by checking the adults, and calm isn't indifference. sometimes calm is the whole curriculum. i walk through the alternatives that would have been worse, the devastated coach, the furious postmortem, the fake-cheer grin kids see through instantly, and the one small thing i'd have added: ten seconds of acknowledgment that threads the needle between the sadness is allowed and the sadness is survivable. then the parent lane, because kids take their final read from the houses they go home to. one sentence, that one hurt huh, then quiet, then maybe pancakes. plus the answer for why do we even play them, and the honest caveat: one crater builds character, but a season of weekly craters is a placement problem the league needs to fix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices