High school basketball coach Baby Shark Kidz Bop
There's a specific kind of humiliation that comes from realizing your high school basketball coach treated the team like a corporate branch office where no one's bigger than the program. During my freshman year, we actually had full control over the entrance music, running out to whatever we wanted including Future and Drake, but senior year brought a strict new era enforced by a first-year coach who demanded we earn our tracks. He pulled up a Kidz Bop playlist as the baseline and set a rule where winning a single game only earned us the right to swap out exactly one song for the next matchup. The math was brutal because the intro playlist held fifteen songs while the season stretched to about twenty games, meaning we needed a perfect record just to clear the board. We were a good squad but never went 20-0, which left Baby Shark stuck on the end-of-year list simply because we failed to win enough games to replace it. It was embarrassing to hear those nursery rhymes echo through the gym when I remembered the freedom of the earlier years, yet the 'program first' mentality made sure we couldn't escape the consequences of a single loss. #Future
