Posted on 10/23/2013 7:31:10 AM PDT by massmike
A high school football coach in Texas was slapped with a formal bullying complaint after his team won 91-0 on Friday.
Aledo High School, the football team that put up a score you’d expect to see in a basketball game, has scored 77 points or more in their last four games. This is the first complaint that has been filed against head coach Tim Buchanan for his team’s blowout victories.
The dad of a player on the team that was blown out, Western Hills High School, claims Buchanan encouraged his players to bully their opponents by running up the score.
Buchanan is adamant that no bullying occurred in his team’s win. Not only did he pull his starters in the first quarter, his third string players were on the field when the clock ran out. After the first half was over, the officials began running a clock that didn’t stop unless a timeout or score occurred and in the fourth quarter, the officials used a continuous running clock, so the score could have reached triple digits.
Neither Buchanan or his team were happy over the victory. “We were just sitting there,” Buchanan said. “You’d have thought we got beat. I looked around and asked, ‘Is there anyone here that feels good?’” Buchanan says that while such victories aren’t anything he takes pleasure in, he can’t tell his kids to quit, either.
“I’m not gonna tell a kid that comes out here and practices six to seven hours a week trying to get ready for football games, ‘Hey, you can’t score a touchdown if you get in, you’re gonna have to take a knee,’ Buchanan said. “That may be the only touchdown that kid gets to score in his high school career.”
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I can agree with that. As adults, we often play golf with acquaintances who are more skilled than us. We usually learn from the better players and everyone is competing against themselves, not each other.
I also agree that grade school kids should learn about sportsmanship and fair play. However when they get to high school and college, they should also learn the value of teamwork and competition.
Exactly. My daughters soccer team dominated the league for a couple years. In the middle of the third year the higher ups started making demands on the coach. Telling him to make the girls "play less hard", "not to kick the ball with their favored foot" etc.
No mercy rule in football at the high school level. I was on the receiving end of a 56 -0 loss. I would have been more humiliated had we quit.
And that loss still makes me a little sick. I never, ever, will feel that way again.
I guess you couldn’t have been bothered to read my first post, when I said that this wasn’t applicable here because the coach took out the starters in the first quarter.
That’s ok. I can’t expect you to read everything. It’s hard.
The people at Western Hills High School should stop crying. at least they didn’t take a whipping like Sylvia High School did on November 16, 1927. Haven High took them to the woodshed and laid 256 points on them. That’s the all-time record at any level of football. If Western Hills had played just a little bit of defense, they may have trimmed a few points of their drubbing. Let that be a hard learned lesson to them. Take the field Friday night and do something about it.
I remember Dallas Carter well.. it was one of the hardest teams for us (Permian Panthers) to play against (back in the 80’s)..
Guess times have changed :/
Actually (OT), I also remember one of the Dallas teams coming to our home field (I think it was Trinity), and one of the students was killed on the way (not going into details, but if you are from around there, you will know).. The team chose to play anyway, and (understandably) they lost.
What is the purpose of a high school football game? Think about it for a minute. Does a team spend more time practicing or playing opponents?Then, which is more important: practicing or playing? Where are you going to be able to have the biggest impact on forming a young person’s character? Practice is way more important. But, do the parents come to practice or the game? A game is like a test in a class. The purpose of the game is to check on the validity of the teaching during practice. There are moments in games where almost mystical things happen, and those are great. The purpose of the game is to validate the teaching that goes on in practice. The purpose of the game is not to rub your opponent’s nose in the dirt. If that’s the case, then take off the pads and let’s have a brawl. We’ll see who the toughest are with no rules or pads. High school sports is to develop character. The kids in high school, at least where I live, don’t go to the games if they aren’t on the team. What does that show? I think some teams are so big because then there will be more spectators. I don’t blame this coach. He’s doing his job. We need to step back and take a look at high school sports in this country. My buddy was the best athlete to ever come out of my small population state. He received a scholarship to play football at a PAC 10 university. He ended up selling plumbing. Now, there’s nothing wrong with selling plumbing as a job, but he sure spent a lot of time and injuries to wind up doing that. And, he died young. Beware of people who try to make money off your kid.
Minor correction: the 4A/5A boundary is 1000 high school students. My wife’s 4A is @ 996 this year. Also, the classification is only changed after two years across the boundary to prevent bouncing back and forth between classes for the borderline schools.
You’ve convinced me with such well thought out reasoning.
Everyone should be mediocre in whatever we do so nobody wins.
Of course mediocre is truly exceptional when compared to the truly incompetent.
Let’s all strive to be truly incompetent so nobody gets their feeling hurt.
If the other team can't stop the run and stop the backups, well that sucks to be them. I couldn't tell my players to quit.
The bullying complaint is BS, and is frankly embarrassing to the kids on the other team. If that was my dad, I would haven't been happy about it at all. It's salt in the wound.
LOL. Blunt, but true.
That must be one fouled up program. Even our freshman teams that played other teams JV teams didn't lose that badly.
Notice there are three teams with losses in the top ten. Now consider that there are 5 more undefeated teams in slots 11-20 on the list. Finally, team #40 this week, Huffman-Hargrave, is 4-0.
1 Aledo (6-0)
2 Whitehouse (6-0)
3 SA Brennan (7-0)
4 Cedar Park (6-1)
5 Humble Summer Creek (6-0)
6 Denton Guyer (4-2)
7 Texas City (6-0)
8 Highland Park (5-1)
9 Wolfforth Frenship (6-0)
10 CC Calallen (5-0)
Aledo beat number 8 Highland Park 44-3 the first game of the year.
Sorry for over estimating your intelligence. I”ll never make that mistake again...you have proven totally incapable of reasoning or reading comprehension. Not a single syllable of your babbling makes any sense whatsoever....
Oops, my bad. Everything I was saying to both of you about 4A was really about 3A. Duh.
“Mercy rules” make more sense for baseball than football. Baseball can continue on and on forever, if the defense can’t make an out, so a mercy rule limits game time to something reasonable. Football always ends after the same amount of game time.
What was the score at the end of the 1st qtr? Must have been obscene enough for the first string to be pulled and the coach to ask for the clock to keep running. Sheesh, grow up and play some D. That’s how you avert a similar beating.
That’s only in the playoffs in 3a, 4a, and 5a.
http://www.uiltexas.org/files/alignments/Conference_Cutoff_Numbers_2012.pdf
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