Posted on 01/23/2009 3:50:32 AM PST by Perdogg
A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.
Now officials from the winning school say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.
In a statement Thursday on the Covenant School's Web site, the head of school said, "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened."
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It could very well be that the girls on the losing team don't even remember the game, or might even think they won it :)
No way. I have kids who play basketball; my husband coaches. Like clock management, bench management (getting your backups in the game in a blow out) is a coaching skill. Teaching your kids a zone defense when the score is up is a coaching skill. Man to man defense and repetitively getting the ball at half court and making easy layups from an obviously weak point guard...when the score had to 40-50-60 nothing, is not achievement...its plain ugly play.
They thought it was a nailbiter.
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The apology is not for winning, it’s for pressing the whole game. As the other poster said, the winning coach could have played zone which would still be an honest effort at playing defense but would have slowed the game tempo and lessened the unneeded feeding frenzy after the outcome was decided. A smart coach would have taken the opportunity to work on his zone and to reward and improve his younger backups who work in practice but who don’t usually get much playing time. It has nothing to do with liberals in sports but everything to do with a coach who showed no common basketball sense.
Back in the day I was in similar situations, meaning being on the winning side in a game against totally outclassed opponents. This is no fun at all. We would never run up the score like this, it’s just embarrassing. What’s the point of humiliating opponents like this?
Oh I agree...but, as it was for some reason a scheduled game (w/real refs I am guessing) then the Covenenant coach needed to step down and coach appropriately (that’s a coaching skill every bit as much as coming back from a pt. deficit).
No way. I have kids who play basketball; my husband coaches. Like clock management, bench management (getting your backups in the game in a blow out) is a coaching skill. Teaching your kids a zone defense when the score is up is a coaching skill. Man to man defense and repetitively getting the ball at half court and making easy layups from an obviously weak point guard...when the score had to 40-50-60 nothing, is not achievement...its plain ugly play.
On the money comments. It seems as if we've got some people who have never coached, played or even watched the sport.
i agree........there is nothing sportsman like in a complete and utter trouncing
Instead of passing the buck of blame to the coaches, I find excellence and achievement to be a beautiful thing.
I think I would be more humiliated if I knew the other let up on me. I’d rather lose 100-0 than know a team felt sorry for me.
Iirc, Cumberland had contracted to play the game a couple of years earlier and subsequently dropped the sport without cancelling the contract. The contract required that they pay a large penalty if they failed to show up but promised a large payout if they did. Horrified at the possible penalty and coveting the payout, the Cumberland administration appointed an amateur coach who rounded up a scratch team around the campus. One report had it that the players were promised a cut of the payout. The resulting “team” practiced together for a day or two then went on the road to play Tech, which was one of the top ranked teams in the country at the time.
Whoa there...(paraphrasing Freud) ‘sometimes a kids basketball game is just a basketball game.’
I believe Colonel you are correct. It was a youth basketball game...not a political manifesto.
Jump rope and Hopscotch are “games.” Baskettball is a competitive contact sport, where scores count. Don’t like being drubbed 100 - zip? Learn to overcome, or stay off the courts. “THIS IS SPARTA!” ;)
Showing remorse after the game is all about the team that won and not the losing team. Yes this seems very new age/liberal/no one is a loser socialistic.
However the place that this went wrong was during the game. To score that many points the winners really had to be pouring it on likely with great glee. Usually very good teams that find themselves with an opponent that is very weak put the game out of reach and then uses their own back up players etc to keep the win but avoid the rout.
You should never allow someone to win that can not win on their own but at the same time you do not need to beat them to death...
It would be pernicious to send scrubs into a game and tell them not to try.
SPARTA? LOL...ok. I am getting the vibe that you really haven’t watched/coached alot of kids sports. There will always be weaker, lesser skilled teams in every league. You coach around that (to keep the league going and competitive). You sit your varsity; pull up JV or even 9th graders at the HS level if you are playing that weak of a team. You work on skills (to help you when you play those better teams) like dribbling; running the zone (trying variations—a 2-3, a 2-1-2—learning to prevent outside shots; keep the ball out of the paint; rebounding skills; etc.) You don’t teach your players anything by running up the score to the level of this game. Apparently, the Dallas team never got to shoot (so how could Cov. work on rebounding or def., etc.)
No, this isn’t about being liberal. The other team didn’t even score one basket in the entire game! You don’t run up the score to 100.
I am a licensed soccer coach. In a similar situation on the pitch you tell your players that they have to shoot left footed, or they have to have x number of passes before they shoot on goal. You don’t humiliate the other team!
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