Posted on 10/31/2021 7:43:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Inglewood Morningside football coach Brian Collins did not have kind words for the Inglewood High coaching staff on Saturday morning when discussing his team’s 106-0 loss to the Sentinels in a game that saw Inglewood quarterback Justyn Martin throw 13 touchdowns passes, including a two-point conversion pass with a 104-0 lead.
Collins said he was proud of his players for not quitting. He said a running clock did not start until the second quarter despite attempts to switch to a running clock earlier. Inglewood led 59-0 after the first quarter.
Inglewood head coach Mil’Von James is in his third season. He was head coach at Hawkins in the City Section until being fired following the 2016 season when his team had to forfeit every victory for using ineligible players and the program was placed on two years’ probation for rules violations. He has seven players on this year’s team committed to major universities. All are transfer students.
Both schools are part of the Inglewood Unified School District. A statement released by the Southern Section on Saturday “condemns, in the strongest terms, results such as these.”
This isn’t the first time a district team has come under scrutiny for running up a score.
In 1990, Morningside’s Lisa Leslie scored 101 of her team’s 102 points in the first half of a girls’ basketball game against South Torrance. South Torrance refused to come back out after halftime to finish the game. The final score was 102-24.
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If you win, you win. I do not see the problem here. Normally at around 50 points ahead they mercy rule the game, don’t they?
It’s a Barry Switzer move...
He does realize the defense can stop them from scoring, right?
This is local news near me. Same coach has done this before.
But if the superior team doesn’t score and the simply toy with them, that can be insulting too.
Some sports determine playoff draws by scoring over the season, so there may have been some other reason as well.
If he’s playing his B team and they still beat them like that, well…..
I saw a basketball coach one time talk to the opposing coach and refs at half. The lesser team ceded the win and then they mixed the teams and played the second half. Class act and everyone learned a lot.
I dont see the problem either. Maybe Collins is a far worse coach than he admits and looking for a participation trophy. We ran the score back in HS to 40 points and you would think the other team would look for revenge the following year, which we expected. It was almost the same high score. Maybe those kids are used to getting their asses kicked in life, who knows..
When I was in high school about 20 miles to the east, Inglewood’s team was the Indians.
This happens when a free date in scheduling pits a Div III team against a II or I. My small HS team got blown out twice by much larger HS teams. Like 4000 against 500 student population. It was like playing a college team.
But no one complained about it. It was a learning experience.
Maybe Inglewood was going for a World’s Record.
Maybe Inglewood Morningside needs a new football coach.
no second string?
Football, basketball and baseball have no slaughter rule like softball. You play the game out by the clock/inning.
The problem is running the score up is poor sportsmanship and bad coaching.
Leading 59-0 after the first quarter the coach should have pulled all starters and used the 2nd string. If the 2nd string kept scoring, pull them and play the scrubs.
What this coach is doing is teaching his players that humiliating your weaker opponents is good.
Not something I was taught or taught my children.
I recall when my hapless Occidental College Tigers gave up seven touchdowns in the first quarter to the Whittier College Poets. The Poet Machine held on to win 56-8.
From the story, it would appear that the starting QB played the whole game. I have no idea about other players, but this suggests pouring it on in what was obviously a mismatch. There’s no excuse for that. My guess is that the coach got carried away with the idea of setting unbreakable records. I imagine a whole bunch of guys sitting on the bench were pretty unhappy about not getting to play.
This sounds like the coach has been recruiting which is not permitted where I come from.
I recall one of my daughter's soccer games that turned into a rout. This was very rare. This was a pretty competitive travel league with relegation and five divisions, so teams found their own level and games were usually very competitive. I don't know what the story was on this particular day; the likeliest possibility is that the opponent was missing several players and got exposed.
Anyhow, once the score reached 4-0, our coach had cleared the bench. Then she imposed a ten-pass rule before anyone could take a shot. Then she flip-flopped the offense and defense, so the defenders got their chance to score goals ... and they did. Then the coach started pulling players. By the end of the game, we were playing three short, so it was 8v11. That slowed things up enough to stop the avalanche.
As I understand it, the coach left in his starting quarterback so that the latter could set a high school single-game record by throwing 13 touchdown passes. Under the circumstances, it should be obvious that any such "record" is beyond meaningless.
You were taught well and so taught your own children. I'm mystified by people, ostensibly adults, who cannot see what's wrong here. To my mind, it reflects a fundamental emotional immaturity, as if a classless punk attitude will always prevail.
The way Oxy treated the football program there was a disgrace.
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