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Message: [QUOTE="BRS24, post: 4541548, member: 197"] Hub and I used to coach travel/competitive soccer in CT, and our rule was that everyone got half a game, PT wise. Some parents would complain, however we used to say if we took the kids on the team, they would get PT. Beyond 1/2 game? That was dependent on how the practices went during the week, who was missing, matchups, etc. One mom confronted me after a game so I quietly turned to the player and asked her if she had good practices that week. She finally nodded no. I said to both of them - a lot of what happens during weekend games is a result of weekday practices. If I reward bad practice habbits with playing time, it's not fair to the others that worked hard during the week, and they will notice it. After that, there weren't any more complaints, and years later, the player said I finally got what you were doing. You wanted me to be the best I could be. It's similar to the grade inflation thread in the General forum. Rewarding phantom effort might not hurt you today, however it will probably get you in the future. In college, quite a few professors would give "last chance exams", for those of us in danger of not passing. Many of us took those exams and passed. Did it help short term? Absolutely. Long term? Hard to say, although it was nice when things finally clicked at the end of a 7 week quarter. [/QUOTE]