OUCH!
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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They found victory before the first half was over. What the winning coach sought in the second half was annihilation and a jolly good time in delivering it.
The last game of the season two years ago was a gainst a team that had not scored all season. We went up on them in the first half then played our bench. With three minutes left we told our defense to miss tackles. The other team scored their first and only TD of the season.
Our kids were all fine with it, they knew they had won. They knew they were the better team. And now they had learned how to be gracious in victory.
I heard the losing team has scheduled a scrimmage with the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks need the practice and the girls need the win.
This was a christian school “showing off” which resulted in the humiliation of their opponent. I don’t see anything “conservative” about that. It certainly wasn’t christian.
30 -0? empty the bench for the rest of the game.Dribble the ball out. No pressing . Fall back into zone.
No reason to embarass the other team.
Cuban sure hasn’t changed much.
It's not at all about asking players not to do their best. Not their fault. It's about how their coach should have had the girls doing their best while playing his backups in a more passive zone defense which would have still be an honest effort at playing defense but would not have tacked on so many points after the game had been decided. The issue is not about broad societal issues on the nature of competition, but on a winning coach not showing basketball common sense and sportsmanship. What if his star point guard had injured her knee in the glorious effort to score 100 after the outcome had long been decided?
I think it would have been incumbent on the losing team’s coach to quit the game and forfeit when it became obvious it would be a blow-out.
And if the disabilities of the losing team are such that they are unable to compete, they ought to withdraw from the league.
Excellent point. I doubt, however, that Loyola or Notre Dame would agree. At what point would it have been more “Christian” to stop the competition? 50-0? 20-0? Perhaps forfeiting the contest at its opening, thereby purchasing sufficient “indulgences” to enter Heaven?
If any of their coaches had did this, I would have been blasting them to the point of having the police remove me.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s the people who have had kids who played the game or have had other experience with the sport are the ones who can see most clearly that this guy was out of line.
As a homeschooler, I've known a few kids who play on a homeschool team and compete against these private schools. My neighbor was one of the coaches. Good sportsmanship and character training are considered more important than the actual sporting skills in these small christian leagues.
These girls probably won't be dribbling a ball in twenty years, but the character they develop now will certainly be with them.
Sadly, the “new” conservatism does not permit such things as sportsmanship. That is a “liberal” value.
I presume you have donned the appropriate flamewear.
let's don't excuse the winning coach's being a jerk as a liberal/conservative issue.
I was reading posts about the story in the Dallas paper. The “it wasn't Christian” comment was pretty common and maybe what embarrassed the winning school into attempting to clean up the mess.
I'm a varsity high school baseball coach and have coached other sports. You teach your players to play hard all the time, practice and games. However as a coach, you don't leave your starters in and keep stealing bases when the game is out of hand. I want to win and, when I have to, lose with class. I want my players to have respect for the game and their opponents; 100-0 disrespects both.
So to me it was not only the coaches but the players and the crowd that was cheering the massacre.Disgusting in any reasonable persons book.
I don’t feel so bad now, my daughter’s YMCA 4th grade girls team only lost 42-0 last week.
I grew up in a family with athletes and my father was a coach for fifteen years. I have no doubt that he would have never, ever done anything like that.
Sometimes in the private school leagues the only way they can play anybody is travel long distances to get to a team your size. In this instance a Dallas church private school agree to play this small private school outside of district play.
Not every team runs up the score in these types of games. Its pointless to argue with you guys who think its always about winning in every situation.
Fortunately I'm not alone in my view that this is just bad behavior on the part of the winning coach. There's nothing "conservative" in deliberately humiliating an opponent.
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