Am I too intense?

As many of you know, I am an extremely competitive person, especially with sports. I really hate to lose at anything. But the worst is when I don't do my best and lose. See, I can handle it if I give it my all and I know I've done the best I can, and I still lose. Why? Because I know I was beaten by a better team, or person, and there is nothing I could do about it. So on to last night. Last night was the final game of the intramural football season. As many of you may know, Cody and I, along with Daniel, where coaching the girl's CSC team. This was mine and Cody's 4th year I believe at doing this. The three previous year's we were able to make the playoffs. Unfortunately, this year we were not able to make it. We hadn't practiced in the last two weeks, and it really showed last night. One of the main reasons why we had done so well in the past was, even though we might not have had the talent that some of the other teams had, we almost always knew what we were doing and that can go a long way. It can really surprise you how much coaching can help. And I'm not trying to toot my own horn here. Just making a statement. See Tennessee Men's Basketball team in '05-'06 if you don't believe me. Well, last night it just didn't seem like our team wanted to be there. I know they tried their hardest, but they just didn't look excited to be playing. But I guess the thing that made me the most frustrated was that we kept making bad mistakes, that if we had practiced wouldn't have happened. At one point, one of the girl's told me I needed to calm down and that it was just a game. Now, I hadn't been going nuts on the sideline at this point. I'm sure everone could tell I was frustrated, but I wasn't going biserk either. But I'm going to be honest. I almost lost it when she told me that. I just had to walk away. If I hadn't, then I probably would have gone biserk. Yes, she's right. It is a game. However, when only 5 people would show up for practice, because they had tests to study for or homework they had to do, then that's frustrating. Cody, Daniel, and I all have other stuff we could have been doing, but we took time out of our schedules to make it to practice. So it is very frustrating for us. Anyways, I guess that's the end of my rant. However upset I might sound, I still enjoyed the season and am glad I was able to coach all the girls. Good luck to all of you for the rest of the semester.