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[quote=Anonymous]My DD is on a pretty good (public) high school soccer team.  When they play teams in their division, with the exception of one other team in the division, the games tend to be blowouts (her team winning by a lot; games get called at the half because score is over ten, etc).  Just awful, awful soccer - where it is clear the other team's players maybe just started playing.  Very painful to watch actually; might as well just put cones out and tell player to dribble down the field and take a shot.  (DD's team has mostly club players and they are really pretty good).  Note - when they play non-division teams (mostly private schools) the matches are pretty good/evenly matched/maybe they lwin maybe they ose after a good game.

I have two questions.  One (somewhat related to other current thread about going to watch games if your player is always benched) - should a parent go to these (gonna be a blowout) games to support DD (she plays a lot, so not a question of not seeing her play, just a question of watching really terrible, not fun soccer)?  Sometimes the games are early/a longish drive.  DD doesn't think the blowout games are very fun either.  Two - why don't the leagues do something about this?  Rather than having public/private split for official league games - maybe set up a higher and lower division (combining schools in the general vicinity)?  The blowouts are no good for either team - the team that loses badly can't be getting much, if anyting (other than low morale) out of the experience.[/quote]

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