Your response - directed at me - is a misdirect as I merely used that line as a reference to ‘answer’ to.
My CITING the line and response is below.(also threw in another comment— #91-—)
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When you are winning by that much you put in your backup players with instructions to take as much time off the clock as possible..
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From a sportsmanship view I completely AGREE with you.
BUT
As a (former) athlete, were I to be assigned to the 2nd or 3rd or cleanup crew, my precious moments would be utilized to show Coach what a terrible mistake he was making having ME ‘ride the pines’.
If you leave the starters in ( I KNOW -UNFAIR) you at least can keep them in ‘line’ by telling them if they don’t follow YOUR ‘rules’ etc they will be 2nd team.
OTOH ... Once you tell them to ‘lay down’ it may become sort of habit forming...
Really could be a conundrum of sorts...