re: Ever been part of a sports team (h.s. and above) that was completely drubbed in a game?

I wasn’t on the team, but our HS boys basketball team was historically bad. From what I remember they went 0-50 at one point. The first win they got my entire time in HS was the middle of my Junior year. They sucked horribly bad.

I don't remember the score, but we lost a JV baseball game like 20 - 0 and got mercy ruled after 5 innings. We only had 7 JV boys and had to get two 8 graders to play with us. Was one of the most embarrassing games I was a part of.

I've been on the giving and receiving end of this.

Giving - in high school, our football team was up 71-0 at half time on a school. At half, the coaches encouraged us not to score any more touchdowns. We won 81-0 but we could've easily went for 120+. We won state that year.

Receiving - I played collegiate soccer at a DII school. We were on the road against a top 5 school. We went up 2-0 within the first 15 minutes of the game. They had a large bell they would ring after they'd score. After our second score, we ran and rang the bell. We ended up losing 10-2

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My drubbing came in practice

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Same. Freshman year at my high school in Florida there were twin brothers on the varsity team that both went to play Big 10 football at RB position. They got into a fight one day at practice and one got sent to practice with JV. Problem was freshman was scrimmaging JV that day. I was playing safety. That RB got through the line untouched, accelerated to run me over, and knocked me out cold. I didn't even take my pads off waiting for my dad to pick me up after practice.

OK thanks. This was MANY years ago. It was ridiculous.

My junior year of high school, we were pretty terrible. We went 2-8, but all of our losses was by 40 points usually. Those aren't really notable to me. We knew we were bad. We didn't expect to win.

My senior year, we were much improved. We started the year off 3-0. Two of the teams we lost to the year before, we won this time around. We had the Game of the week, it was going to be on TV. We had a pep rally that morning with the tv cameras. Our quarterback got in front of the cameras and talked trash about how bad we were going to beat the other team, etc.

We went out there and proceeded to lose 66-7. We only scored 7 in the 4th quarter with our starters against their JV squad. That game did something to us. It utterly broke us as a team. We started out 3-0, and finished 4-6.

They weren't a really great team either. On paper, we were supposed to be evenly matched. I guess they were extra motivated after seeing us talk shite on tv. And our overly-cockiness came to bite us in the arse. I'm still salty about that loss and season as a whole. It turned into such a giant dumpster fire

I did play soccer my senior year of high school. We were a pretty bad team(I was a starter despite that being my first time playing soccer since age 8). We played against the school that won state the year prior. It went about as you'd expected. They were up 12-0 at half-time. We had no delusions about being competitive that game. We were having fun, joking around, while getting our butts smacked. .

I played John Curtis' legion team when I was going into my freshman year of high school, first time I heard a baseball get thrown past me...but I've got the counter to this.

We had an 8 man track and field team my 7th grade year, large public school in Jefferson Parish. We were from the northern part of Metairie and Kenner, so fielding competitive football and track teams was hit or miss, usually a miss. Not 7th grade year. We had two guys, who ended up running CC in high school, win all the distance races. Another guy did all the field events and placed in each, won one or two. Our sprinters had no chance against the westbank schools, but our relay teams were able to score just enough points that we took 2nd at the parish meet.

Felt pretty cool for six white guys and two hispanics to walk in front of huge track teams with guys who would run and play football in HS and college and celebrate a runners-up trophy.

Obviously everything was downhill from there.

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My drubbing came in practice. I was on a team where half the starters went on to play college ball and three made it to the NFL. I was on the scout team and it wasn't pretty. One time in particular I was playing DE. The fullback put a lead block on me and the next thing I know I'm flat on my back looking up at the sky and I can;t see. I thought I was dead for a minute.

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To add another practice story. I played college ball at the D2 level. I was best player at my high school. I figured since I went D2 instead of D1 I would also dominate at that level. The very first day of camp I challenged one of the returning starters on the offensive line. Coach tried to move me out of the way, saying this is a 2x all-American, he was out of my league. I pushed coach away, because I was eager to prove myself.

Nope. He absolutely bullied the hell out of me with no difficulty. I refused to give up. The 3rd play I guess he was tired of my shite. So he fricking choke-slammed me. I'm talking both feet left the ground. I was at-least hoping from that whole thing that I would gain respect from the Headcoach for not giving up. But all I got was a "move out the fricking way you fricking illiterate dumbass freshman"

We had to play Class C Atlanta in boys BB in late 70s. We were Class C too and they killed us

Played lacrosse for LSU in the mid to late 80's, always undermanned. Could barely field a team. We were forever getting our arse kicked. Played the Navy team in Pensacola and I knew we were in for a long afternoon when I lined up to face off with a dude wearing a Team USA World Cup helmet. I held my own against him, we talked during the game and turned out to be his brother's helmet.