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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Thanks for digging out the real numbers and getting them posted.
Funny tweet posted on a site that had current state rankings: “if that was my parent who filed that complaint, I’d ask to be put up for adoption.”
so far I have not heard that the losing coach may be the reason for such a large loss...Coach’s can suck also. That may include the losing coach..
See Will Muschamp.
The rule of thumb is that whatever Highland Park turns in for enrollment, then that is the cut-off for the 4a classification. We can’t have Dallas’ finest families have their sons playing against the likes of Hillcrest, North Dallas, and Woodrow Wilson, which are the closest high schools around. That dog just won’t hunt.
We have a mercy rule in high school football here in New Mexico. If, by the half, one team is up by 50 points the game is called.
Kind of sucks for the Marching Band half time show.
Happened at my son’s school first game of the season.
I remember driving up to ME listening to a bill oilers play off game at the half it was was was 51 to zero oilers so I shut the game off it was over. Not so the bills won to go on to the s b.
- was was
Impressive as hell, but not 51-0 at the half.
sure ruin my bad fond memories with facts. :)
That is true! Highland Park has been the marker for years!
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