Some similar "real life" scenarios from my coaching career--Coaching the travel rec team, lose 2 girls to injury, and two to vacation, the week we are to play six games. I bring three girls "up" to play, 2 of whom were better than over 1/2 the team. This made me move some girls around, and so after the week, I was confronted by parents because "I had given their daughters positions away." I just wanted to have 11 girls, field the most competitive I could, and hopefully win and help the girls learn the game. I told them the director had told me not to forfiet the games, and that the program was better in the long run if all the girls were involved. Fast forward about 8 months--put together a bb team, and needed two players due to vacations. Pick up the best player from our other rec team, point guard, and actually make the semi's. First time we had won more than one tourney game all year(great big girls, no guards). People I had known for 15 years were screaming at me because thier kids hadn't got enough playing time. Threre was also a lot of political stuff going on the side, won't bore you here. My very-long-winded way of saying--if you go to a tourney, you need to try the best you can to win. And if that means you bench your DD so the guest pitcher you brought can try to win the game, then DO IT. And if you are the guest, then finish what you started. People talk, and I guarantee as many people will think the guest is a whining quitter as think the coach is blinded by his DD's "briliance."
