Posted on 01/27/2009 9:14:14 AM PST by nysuperdoodle
I always thought coaches got fired for losing. On the same day he sent an email refusing to apologize for his team's success, a Texas high school girls' basketball coach was terminated. The coach, Micah Grimes, of Dallas' Covenant School, had come under fire for winning a game 100-0, making national news.
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He needed to do one of a few things (or all)
Sit Back and not play so aggressively.. Play a zone not a press. Take time going down the court.
Play his second tier players
If he did all that and still won 100-0 I dont see a complaint... but he kicked the other team when they were down and refuses to see that running up the score is bad sportsmanship.
“LOL, Complete horsecrap.”
Thanks for the intelligent answer. So the 100-0 win taught the other team “complete horsecrap?” I agree.
100% innocent per this account.
Anyone ripping this coach should have their head examined.
compare life and death and high school hoops?
seriously, having been on the other thread on this same situation, it is pretty apparent that you either GET THIS or you don’t. there is no explaining it to people who can’t understand the difference between class/sportsmanship and throwing a game.
>>The winning team has only 8 players.<<
Yeah. It means that he not only used the bench but also wore out those that could not be substituted because he didn’t have enough players.
I think the main travesty of this game is either that it was ever scheduled, or that the other team was so poor for its position in the division, or whatever they call it.
How about you get your facts in order chief before you begin running your mouth. It’s quite clear you are completely befuddled by the real truth about what happened out there.
Nobody is saying ‘let them win’ just stop bashing in their skulls with 10 minutes left and you’re up by 70 points. Ditch the press, ditch the threes and send in the bench..
This was a Christian school which acted decidedly unchristian..
There ya go. Not to mention the losing team has been all over TV for their historic "loss".
Yes,, and combined with muddling the facts about what the coach did and what strategy he employed, you clearly DON’T GET IT!
“If he did all that and still won 100-0 I dont see a complaint... but he kicked the other team when they were down and refuses to see that running up the score is bad sportsmanship.”
Agreed
>>Who expects to do their job well and then be publicly excoriated for it by their employers? He just returned fire. He was right to do so.<<
I firmly agree with that statement.
I have yet to see anything wrong with what that coach did, including the final score. I said on another post that the final score is “tough love in action”.
All you people criticizing this coach amaze me. If 100-0 is bad... what’s good? Is there some consensus on that? No... if he won 70-0 the same nitwits would still whine about fair play. This coach didn’t do any victory dances or spike any balls or insult anyone. He just did his job very well and got fired for it.
Get your facts straight, None of that happened.
OK then, I admit it sounds like I misunderstood how the game went. That still doesn’t excuse the Freepers who apparently think the coach was wrong not to continue pressing and shooting threes and perhaps run the score to 150-0.
I'm wide awake. Sportsmanship also means refraining from deliberately humiliating an obviously overmatched opponent. Back in the day I was in this position, meaning beating an obviously outmatched opponent. We'd hold back a bit, to be honest, it just felt wrong to simply stomp someone for the sake of running up the score. Doesn't mean throwing the game or deliberately missing shots, just conducting yourself with a bit of class.
Its not even about the score its about the way they ran it up..
If he was in a half court defense with his bench playing and playing a set offense and it ended up 100-0 what can you do. This guy was a jerk and a Christian school has higher priorities than winning..
Yeah, there’s some irony in that too. But that would’ve been stating the obvious.
How exactly was it unChristian?
Seriously.
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