Basketball Game

I went to my first Wartburg basketball game the other week. It was technically a JV game but some friends of mine who live on my floor were playing so I felt obligated to go. Before I start talking about the game, I want to talk about one thing that I found to be interesting but kind of sad at the same time. As I was sitting in the crowd, I noticed how segregrated we were. The white people sat with each other and same with the black people. There was no intermingling. This surprised me becaues I thought that we had gotten past all of this segregation in our generation. Anyways, the girls played pretty good for their first college game. It definitely took them some time getting used to playing with the play clock which makes sense because it isn't used in high school ball. There were a couple times where the buzzer went off and some girls stopped playing while other girls continued so they ended up losing a couple points because of this but they eventually got the hang of it. The girls ended up losing to the Loras JV team by ten points. For their first game, I didn't think that was bad. When I was watching them play, I found myself missing the game which is surprising because in high school after my freshman year this was my least favorite game out of the three that I played. The reason was because the coach that I had didn't make it fun. He was constantly chewing us out, screaming at us, and throwing clipboards. I remember this one time at a halftime of a game where he actually ended up breaking one. He was putting so much emphasis on winning that it took away from everyone's joy of the game on the team. I feel like quite a few high school coaches end up doing this. They get so hung up on winning which is a good concept but they forget that most of the team is just out because we enjoy the game and find it fun. By taking that away, they take away the fight and will that the team has to put forth the effort to win. Who wants to work hard for a coach that's going to make his team dread the game?