I'll bite.
I was the HC at said program for 5 years. I cannot tell you the number of times I had discussions with kids about playing, they'd show up, they'd quit in the summer. Or the number of times I heard the words drop the program. Or the number of times a kid would quit after Week 1. We lost 2 starters after the scrimmage one year because they wanted to hunt more. You have no idea how challenging it is to get that thing off the ground. We took our fair share of lumps, and I'm not Vince Lombardi. But I don't know of anytime that a respectable coach has ever blamed someone else of running up the score. It's my job to stop you. Even when we had 15 kids for a season I never thought anyone ran it up.
So no, it is actually acceptable to schedule games then have to drop because of circumstances outside your control. Until you've walked in the man's shoes, we shouldn't speak for what he should or should not do.