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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“The other team can always forfeit the game to save face.’
Someone can always interject something totally asinine.
Holy crap.
Must have been some kind of grudge feud!
Lopsided wins can happen for a lot of reasons that aren’t apparent. Its what the coaches do that matters when things get out of hand.
Your daughter had a good coach who did everything humanly possible to save their opponents from abject humiliation and teach about sportsmanship.
Too few coaches are teaching that these days.
Haven (Kan.) 256, Sylvia (Kan.) 0 in 1927 for high school football
In my senior year in high school the homecoming game score was 104-6, our favor against a bigger school. For good measure, the team’s school bus tires were slashed. (It was a tough school.) The second, third and fourth strings were sent in but the other team was so demoralized it could barely function.
Later that year their basketball team slaughtered ours something like 80 to 20 so they got their revenge. The second basketball game between our two schools were almost a tie.
I still feel embarrassed about that homecoming game score. At some point the audience got crazy and started screaming to our team to run the score up to 100.
Worked for a bit in the Inglewood courthouse in the late 70s. Needed a haircut and walked over to a nearby barbershop. Thought initially taken aback, the barber gamely (and successfully) took on the job of cutting my hair.
“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.”
You’re right about the TD record. Anyone with half a brain will see it for what it is.
My parents were all about sportsmanship and manners. If you won you didn’t taunt your defeated opponent, you shook their hands and told them they played a good game.
If you lost you shook the winners hands and congratulated them on winning.
My coaches were known to bench players, even team stars, for forgetting the rules of sportsmanship. Those men didn’t play.
You played the game their way or not at all.
Most coaches now think only of winning and winning big. Most were high school jocks who have dashed dreams of Big League careers. IMVHO they are the last people you want coaching.
😀
It’s football.
It wasn’t just Barry either.
Sometimes you can use a game for practice.
LOL!
There actually IS a mercy rule in HS football. It’s called a “running clock”. Basically if a team is up by a certain number of points by halftime or after, the clock just rolls and doesn’t stop for any reason (penalty, incomplete pass, timeout). No clock stoppages.
Problem here is that the rule doesn’t start til after the 2nd quarter and they were already down 59-0 after just the first quarter.
Back in the day, my H.S. had 60 boys total. Most were on the football team. Freshmen thru Seniors
Our football team was undefeated with 1 tie from my soph year til graduation.
We didn’t play any jamokes.
We also didn’t play any state powerhouses either.
We didn’t roll up scores nor did we let anybody roll-up scores on us.
It just worked out that way.
College football’s ranking system encourages running up the score.
“... including a two-point conversion pass with a 104-0 lead.”
That’s downright sadistic.
It is sports.
I played and it can be brutal. You enjoy your team and go game to game.
Only a snowflake worries about a lopsided score.
I think it is funny.
Heard it was a tight-end in a wheel-chair.
Right side wheel route.
The other team declared shenanigans.
There’s never a valid reason to go for two with a 104-0 lead, unless the opposing team’s head coach cheated on your sister or something like that.
“Must have been some kind of grudge feud!”
It is now.
I’ve played on some teams that were blown out by superior talent. You accept the loss, and keep playing the game and see if you can pick up on the opponents tricks and learn something from it. Aside from basketball, any loss by more than about 4 scores is about all the same. In this case, the team goal shifts from winning to keeping them from breaking a record, and the personal goal shifts to getting wins against the guy across from you. Who cries from getting blown out?
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