when ballard was blowing teams out ev ery friday night, the starters always got pulled....occasionally, the starters played the firs series or two of the third quarter but then they were pulled. i cant speak for every single blowout cause there were so many of them. its hard to ask your starters to p lay a half of football 12 games a year and expect them to stay game conditioned for a late playoff and state champ run.....i dont know if witten does this in all blowouts or not. i would like to think not, but i can only speak for friday night...i am now done with this topic and moving on. if some of you people dont understand why this is a very idiotic thing for a coach to do...ANY COACH, then you probably need to stop watching football, and latch on to another sport....like maybe golf.....which i suck at by the way