Maybe Grimes let his team run the score up in protest against having to play a team that had no business being on the court.
I need to preface this with the fact that I tell my players that there is a reason that the first place trophy is bigger - you WON, they lost.
The problems I had with this story are:
1. Those two teams should have never been in the same conference PERIOD.
2. The winning coach waited waaaaaay to long to yank his starters. Should have been done when he noticed that the score was 30 - 0 and the other team didn’t stand a chance. He pulled them at 88-0.
I help coach a HS football team with the same problem - we are in a weak conference and literally crush our competition - in the neiborhood of 56 to 6 or better. We play a lot of schools that only have 900 students where we have 1775. We pull our starters after 28 points if the other team has not scored. We do this so all of our players get some clock not to run up the score, but those second and third stringers are pretty darn good.
I have tried to push the head coach into a tougher schedule at the beginning of the season to no avail - we always get bumped out to the playoffs when we face real competition, since we played a level down all season. He is too worried about preserving his record. We have a really screwed up system here where your last three game of the season MUST be against a conf. opponent and if you win all 3 of those games you get into the playoffs with a 3-7 record. I am about preparing these kids to a college program where they not going to go 10-0 during the regular season. I have had one kid quit his college team because they went 0-10 and had a coach who was a yeller. It doens’t help these kids who only lose 4 games their entire high school career. They take winning as a easy task that require little or no work on their part.