Posted on 01/26/2009 12:03:59 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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I think you did the right thing in offering the ‘other side’.
Now that we’ve met the moral imperative....
How does one score 31 points while ‘running down the clock’ anyway?
Just askin....
If this letter is at all true, the guy chose dignity and honoring his girls over keeping his job.
I wish there we could see a tape of the game to see what happened for ourselves.
They play with a shot clock, so they are forced to shoot a certain number of times, unless they just give them the ball, which isn't sportsmanlike.
An interestsing article—thank you for posting it.
Interesting to get the other side! Still, I find it a little tough to believe that a score of ONE HUNDRED to zero wasn’t at least partly the result of a run-up score.
Most of the reason for the score, though, must be that the other team was simply woefully uprepared.
“How does one score 31 points while ‘running down the clock’ anyway?”
If A professional team were playing a jr. high team this could happen. There may have been a HUGE disparity in quality/effort between the teams.
The girls are not gonna just stop playing, after all.
Shot clock?
Shot clocks.. You can't just sit there and dribble the ball, you have a certain period of time in which to shot before you get a penalty. His girls where just that darn good that when they did take the shot, they made it. I would love to know the score if he instructed his girls to wipe the floor with the other team instead of run it out.
Ahhh, thanks.
I honestly don’t know what to think about this one. Anyone know if the losing team was interviewed?
And yes, I stand by his 100-0 blowout of the opposing team.
My Sr. year at high school (also a small private school) we had several cases like this. At the main public school in town, there was an incident with a shooting (no one was harmed but it freaked parents out) so we had a lot of transfers, including four from the varsity 5a basketball team. We won the entire season like this, (90-10, 75-5, etc) type games. Many games, we felt like we where just walking around, slowly taking shots, but we so outgunned the opponents, the score just ran up. Like another poster said, the only way it would have been different is if we just handed the other team the ball and stood back- very unsportsmanlike like.
If you play down to the other team, then you are a socialist. Everyone feels good about themselves. On the flipside, I have never heard of a scholastic bowl team playing down to their opponent...why in sports? My two cents worth.
Maybe the next coach should limit the team’s performance such that they do no better than a tie game as not to hurt the other teams feeeeeelings.
I would find this kind of action appropriate for a public school mired in political correctness, ditto for a private school yoked with the same nonsense. A Christian school? Now that raises some questions.
There can be nothing good out of shutting out the opposing team. Absolutely nothing.
Not really, in many areas private schools are populated with kids whose parents send them there so they get babied, none of the social problems(sic) of public schools. They expect their children to have the white glove treatment. My wife has taught at one of these schools, it is almost worse than the very rough public school she teaches at now. The parents are so concerned with the self esteem of the kids, they don't let them face the real world. It isn't as much it is a Christian school it is just a private school thing.
It’s worse than that. They were up 25 3 minutes into the game. That means they scored 34 in the following 21 minutes up to the half then 41 in the following 24.
There was no let up in the second half. Also, getting 100 points meant something to the coach. The fact that the other team didn’t score a single point is also disturbing.
This wasn’t about “being the best” it was about vengeance for an earlier lopsided loss and humiliating the other teams players.
Not very Christian.
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