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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5496584, member: 173"]
When I was in high school, early in the season our starting QB missed the bus to a 1PM Saturday road game and showed up at the field we were playing at about five minutes before kickoff.  On Monday our coach told him he had to run 1000 laps around the field - but anyone on the team could join him and their laps would count towards his total.  Everyone joined in so it worked out to around 20 laps each.

Our team was a little dysfunctional with a lot of guys who didn’t get along with each other, lots of cliques had formed.  That event started to brake down some of the barriers - after losing our first game, we didn’t lose another game that season.

20 years later we were talking with our former head coach at a reunion and complimenting him on what a great strategy it was on his part.  He told us it wasn’t a strategy - he was just angry at the QB, realized 1000 laps was absurd after he said it and having the team run was just on on-the fly recovery.  He was very happy to take some credit for how well it worked out though.
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