Posted on 01/16/2015 4:17:15 PM PST by Borges
A high school girls basketball coach in California has been suspended for a rare reason: Winning by too large a margin. Arroyo Valley's Michael Anderson kept his foot on the gas pedal even as his team went up by 60 early in the game against a winless opponent.
The end result was brutal: A 161-2 beatdown.
Decisive as it might be, it was far from impressive. The coach was called by the school's athletic director and later told The Riverside Press-Enterprise that he had been suspended two games for what had happened.
The coach also expressed regret for his actions while suggesting that he didn't expect the game to get so far out of hand -- when he put in his bench players in the second half, he was surprised by their output.
Arroyo Valley applied a high-pressure full-court trap throughout the first half, ostensibly under the pretense of tuning up for tougher competition down the road. By halftime, the score was 104-1.
Nevertheless, the opposing team's coach was not happy with the result, and he made sure his opinions were known. He called the ethics of Anderson into question.
"People shouldn’t feel sorry for my team," opposing coach Dale Chung of Bloomington High told The Sporting News. "They should feel sorry for his (Anderson’s) team, which isn’t learning the game the right way."
The Press-Enterprise reported that Arroyo Valley won its first game without Anderson. It was also a blowout -- 80-19 over San Bernardino Indian Springs -- but not the extent of the one against Bloomington that triggered the uproar.
Those two teams didn’t belong on the same court.
While the winning coach’s actions were unsportsmanlike getting suspended is just idiotic.
Nope. But you can bet it was an engineered event. Now the calls will rise for more scoreless games and rules and restrictions. There is a reason most sportswriters, educators and modern pizza party coaches are flaming liberal.
It’s just that someone forgot to tell the winning coach the plan.
If there were women coaches in this game, it would have ended in a tie and everybody would have gotten ice cream and gone home happy.
Damn, I'm having a hard time picturing that, just damn!
Probably somebody on the winning team catching hell for allowing the 2.
Pound your adversary into dust, then pound the dust, it ain't Sun Tzu, but it'll do as a general philosophy :)
Even Geno A. (Uconn coach) puts in the bench once they’re 7 minutes into the game and they’re up 30. Never teach athletes to not try their best, though.
The trouncing of the loser no doubt did more for the character of the losing team han all the games they were pitied, and allowed to keep close by suprior teams coasting their play.
Those Texas meanies...couldn't they have stopped at 20? /s
“I mean can you imagine? they might look back on the ass kicking they got, get pissed and do better.”
One would hope. Not knowing the schools demographics I shall withhold a sweeping generalization about the utes future successes in the real world...or in the prison system.
Because the Republican Party is Full of Win
?
You didn’t build that. Don’t offend people. Everybody’s a winner. “Loser” is a white-male-imperialist idea.
They should just give every kid a trophy, cancel the games, and save everyone a lot of time and expense.
/s
Oh the horror. Oh the humanity! 30-3.
People that voted GOP voted Democrat. They were promised Amnesty.
I’d bet it was white Pizza Party no score soccer alumni that have little actual competition under their belts and lots of well off mothers that live vicariously through them.
I would also bet said mothers will form some PAC to get the winning coach fired and are tearing up facebook/twitter in outrage as we speak.
I would further add that said mothers have a good chance of going after the winning girls via social media. And assumed names/fake accts.
I nominate Michael Anderson for SECDEF.
Because in high school the boys basketball coach is also usually the girls team coach too. Girls one semester, boys in the other.
They should do the Obama thing, and take away some of the winning team’s points and give them to the losing team.
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