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Fire him. Correct decision.
I’d suggest that parents fire the school.
Barak Obama should quit the presidency for running up the electoral college score. He knew he had the election won and yet he went after states he didn’t need. That was unfair of him and showed poor sportsmanship.
Those "coaches" said they didn't want to continue to embarrass the other team and I can see that but to order boys to "throw" a game so that they wouldn't do as well instead of putting in boys that never got to play?
Nuts.
Dallas academy, your team SUCKS.
Just sayin'.
Fire a man for doing what he was hired to do. They should have the girls of various schools meet for tea and avoid all the nasty competition.
I can truly see both sides of this but one side seems to come off in very much the same way as affirmative action. If one team slacks off then the other team is far more humiliated in the end. Doing as some would have had the coach do would have pointed out that Dallas Academy was “special” in some way and were only taking what the other team gave them. They stayed on the floor and played and kept trying-———they didn’t give up-——— and if you can teach a child that you are ahead in the game.
Oh, I now see that the losing team was comprised of kids with severe disabilities. Scheduling such a game was a lose-lose situation from the get-go.
But knowing who the opponents were, it would have shown some compassion to “call off the dogs” when it reached 50-0.
There was no good reason to run up the score like that. If the losing team was not representing a school of kids with severe disabilities, i would feel differently.
What lesson are you teaching by forfeiting the game?
Aren’t there enough schools for the developmentally delayed in Dallas so they could have their own league to play in, much as the Special Olympics program? It’s difficult to see why such schools are allowed to compete with teams with regular athletes, who are then pilloried for running up the score. TAAPS, the TX association of private schools, needs to rethink their guidelines after this sorry episode.
The most disturbing thing about this incident is that it is everybody’s business. Everything has become socialized, nationalized, federalized. Why is everybody talking about this? They talk about it on ESPN for crying out loud! Why not go about your own business? Do you all have children in either of the schools involved. Don’t people have their own lives to live?
We have become one. One family. One people. One Reich.
The issue is one of sportsmanship, one of the primary core values you teach young minds.....
This coach only understood unrelenting hard competition, no balance, no humility, no compassion......
He should be fired......
1926 Haven High School Football Team defeated Sylvia 256-0 and is listed in Ripley's Believe it or Not as the world record for highest scoring football game on record.
Astoria High School, Astoria Oregon football defeated Molalla High School, Molalla, Oregon 100 to 6 in September 1970.
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According to Wiki.answers, the highest scoring high school basketball game was 302 to 4. It didn't list the teams involved.
Two high school basketball teams in 2008 in Florida: Naples 91, Estero 0.
Lancers of RAF Lakenheath vs SHAPE High School basketball ended with a score 8-2.
It is an insult to an opponent to pull your punches.
Maybe the Mavs could hire him, at least he knows something about coaching defense.
We should stop keeping score at all sporting events in this country and give all teams trophies and ‘Partipant Ribbons’. We surely don’t want someone getting their feelings hurt because they are inferior. I say we start with the big game this Sunday.
Here is part of the problem. When I was involved in HS sports, the coach would not have had to say anything, his kids would have done it themselves. If his kids don’t know enough to respect the other players, the coach needed to go.
Facing the Giants II - the coach gets fired.
General Patton (”Americans love a winner) must be spinning in his grave. The Covenant team played by the rules and won. Yes, the margin of victory was excessive, but if you read the coach’s statement, he did everything he could to keep the score down—short of pulling his team off the floor.
He stopped the press after three minutes and began playing a zone. He began substituting freely and kept it up throughout the game. Covenant’s coach and players have nothing to apologize for.
On the other hand, someone might ask Dallas Academy why they still have a basketball team. Four seasons without a victory tells me that (a) they don’t have the talent base to field a team, or (b) they need a new coach.
As someone else observed, the Academy girls are not physically handicapped. There are plenty of athletes who’ve overcome ADD and dyslexia. Perhaps they need a new coach, and a new approach.
Here’s an idea. Maybe Dallas Academy ought to hire Coach Grimes. A few years ago, his program was in bad shape and he transformed it into a winner. He might be able to work a similar miracle with the team he spanked a couple of weeks ago.
This is more than the latest manifestation of Obamaerica. It’s a product of our touchy/feely approach to youth sports. Kids who were raised to expect a trophy after every soccer or tee ball game are suddenly shocked when they lose a basketball game by a staggering margin. And, we make the matter worse by transforming them into celebrities.