Originally Posted by Class of 73 Alum
Scrimmage scores are meaningless. Especially when you don’t know each coach’s approach to the scrimmage. It sounds like Pitt played arguably their 2 best players a great part of the game given their point totals. Who knows what UD’s approach was?
My son coaches a D3 women’s team. They scrimmaged a large Canadian university and were surprisingly ahead after 3 quarters. My son, much to my chagrin, decided to sprinkle in his freshman to see what they could do against good competition and they ended up losing by 11.
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I hope he told the girls "we won, well played ladies, stick that one in your cap. I'm not going to waste the rest of the game worrying about the score, it's about practicing different combinations and seeing what some other players can do."