Girls team shows remorse after 100-0 win (Liberals in sports alert)

SF Gate ^ | Friday, January 23, 2009

[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."

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Nobody said tell the JV or 9th graders not to try...they should have been given playing time against such a weak opponent. Your Seniors graduate...playing your bench develops for the future (coaching skill).

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Thank you! I’d forgotten those details. I now remember (I think) that Cumberland’s on-field players were given the names of vegetables. Plays were called like, Celery to tomato. I guess they had the pass by 1916.

[philman_36]

...dyslexia...

They thought it was a nailbiter.
0 - 001

[jalisco555]

My guess is that the winning coach wanted to reach the magic number of 100 points and didn’t care that doing this would require violating all the rules of good coaching and sportsmanship. Shameful really.

[wally_bert]

For the past 15-20 years, I have had to listen to the endless preaching about every little tiny thing had to be a "team" thing.

I do not want or need the collectivist mindset that is so dominant today.

[RexBeach]

Were the teams playing on different courts? :)

Let the results stand.

[WildcatClan]

You are speaking of a full court press. A full court or even half court press need not be man-to-man nor man-to-man be a press. You can get a lot of mileage out of 2 on 1 traps.

I would have went over some things with my team and ran various plays I wanted them to get down. I would have put in all the subs I had, but you never tell your team to lower intensity. If the players on the losing side see the other team is laying down it makes it even more insulting to them. I would have used the game to get my younger players some minutes and experience. I am not sure we needed an article, that seems to have gone national for this. Teams who run up the score usually get a taste of the same before the season is done. :)

[Hatteras]

If the losing team was indeed a special needs school and the coach was pressing all game long? The coach of the winning team should be fired. Don’t apologize, just fire his sorry @$$. It’s called good sportsmanship. If you can’t do it, you don’t belong on the court.

[Le Chien Rouge]

I hope every liberal who wins an Oscar this year gets up there and refuses it, and apologizes for winning over the others......

I believe during the oscar’s, there are no winners’.....Oscars are either presented or awarded......liberals not wishing to offend other liberals...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

When it got to be about 50-60 zip that would was pretty insulting too. It goes to the coaching (again). Instead of repetitive easy lay ups (I wonder if any of the Cov. girls can dunk...cause that would have really been rubbing it in) why not work on passing drills. Bring the ball out; pass, pass, pass. Someone else said (and I agree) running the score to 100 was the goal...and thats really unsportsmanlike (when the other team doesn’t even score a basket). And, lets agree...after you did the tenth or eleventh trap...wouldn’t you say your girls had that ‘down’ and move on (to again not run the score up)?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Afterwards isn’t the right time for this. It’s more like rubbing salt in the losing team’s wounds — “See, you’re such hopeless retards that we can totally *cream* you, and now that we’ve shown you and everybody else by doing it, we’ll try to make ourselves look like we care about you by applying for a forfeit.”

If the winning team didn’t have some second and third stringers for whom this would have been a rare opportunity to get some playing time without chalking up a loss for the team, they shouldn’t have agreed to play this winless special-ed school in the first place. It sounds like the head of the “winning” school wouldn’t have allowed this to happen in the first place if he’d known about it in time.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe I'm unique here on FR, but I don't see anything "liberal" about promoting good sportsmanship among competitive teams. Two basketball teams involved in a 100-0 game obviously don't belong on the court together.

Personally, I think any coach who allows his team to run up a score like this is an @sshole.

When I was in high school our (all-white) basketball team was regularly trounced by another school in our league whose (mostly black) basketball team occasionally produced legitimate NBA prospects. By halftime none of the starters were left in the game, and this team made the point of bringing some of their junior varsity players along for games like this.

Those were some of the most gracious, classy winners you'd ever meet, too.

[dangus]

Only one way to make losing 100-0 more humiliating... Have the other team apologize for what, accidentally being so much better than you?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

You're right. Whatever a team does it needs to do it well and with intensity. This guy just could have had his players work on doing things well that would not have had such an effect on the final score. Here's a paragraph from the Dallas paper that might give an idea on the way the game went:

They are really good," Civello said. "Their point guard is terrific. This is what it came down to in the second half: steal at half court and layup. Steal and layup. Steal and layup. It was a layup drill. They finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left." Covenant's point guard had 48 points.

After a while, there was no point in continuing the shark attack and it was time to clear the bench and play a less aggressive defense.

[PowderMonkey]

I get your point. My point, however, is not about what you teach the winners. It’s about what you teach the losers.

[PowderMonkey]

I get your point. My point, however, is not about what you teach the winners. It’s about what you teach the losers.

[dangus]

>> Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia. <<

I think we have the source of the problem. Every time the band played, the other team started dancing; by the time the score was 30-0, noone was really paying attention. (I call the Chris Rock rule on this one: I have ADD so I can have fun.)

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I wonder (using my sports mom skillz) if the Covenenant coach has a vested interest in that point guard. Is she the coach’s daughter? Were we running up the score to build up some stats (for college recruiting). No way a starter should still be in (w/four minutes left and 100 pt lead) after scoring 48 easy points. 24 lay ups? That’s skill? No way.

[Perdogg]

This begs the question; why are they playing at this level? You can’t have it both ways. You tell the young ladies to bust their butts and do the best you can, or, they are unable to be in the same building with the other team. Which is more harmful?

[dangus]

>> This begs the question; why are they playing at this level? <<

What? Who? What were we talking about?