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?
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..
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.
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 do not see the problem here.”
EXTREMELY pinhead point of view.
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.
I think they mentioned going to a “running clock” to shorten the game. Normally the clock stops briefly after first downs to move the stakes, or and incomplete pass. Part of the problem seemed to be technical because that didn’t happen as soon as it should have. 13 TD’s in a game where the quarters are only 12 minutes? Must have scored on almost every offensive possession.