Posted on 11/22/2021 5:28:38 AM PST by DrHFrog
Last year, when it was hard to field a team during COVID, Flower Mound joined a league from nearby Keller.
Rhett Taylor, vice president of the Keller Youth Association, said the group’s five-member board decided the Flower Mound team should be ejected from the playoffs – even though they’re the top team.
“This is the Keller league, not the Flower Mound league,” Taylor said. “In my mind, they’ve dominated our league.”
Taylor also is a coach and a father. His team lost to the Rebels 33-0 this season.
“My team got one first down all game,” Taylor said. “And my team is good.”
The Rebels’ coach, Ragan Montero, said Taylor and the Keller Youth Association are trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.
“He’s a sore loser. That’s all it comes down to,” Montero said. “He’s changing the rules so it benefits him.”
Taylor acknowledged the decision was made because of the Rebels’ dominance.
“They are too good. I fully admit it, absolutely,” he said. “They are a select-level team. They are too good for a rec-level team.”
Montero disagrees and believes it’s sending a bad message to the kids.
“I don’t think we can be too good,” Montero said. “He wants to play with us but he doesn’t want us to be good. I’m not really sure what that teaches the kids. Hey, try your hardest but sorry, you won’t get the end result you want?”
The Keller Youth Association said the Rebels are still welcome to play their final game this weekend but told them they wouldn’t be allowed in the playoffs – no matter their record.
For the young players, it’s a confusing lesson about what’s fair.
“I want for us to actually just finish our games,” Tanner said. “That’s truly all I want. I’m new to tackle football and the shotgun.”
First sentence of story 7 and 8 yr olds.
The Keller Youth Association allowed Flower Mound into their league. Now, they’re whining that the team is too good.
Unless Flower Mound violated the league rules, the correct solution is to allow Flower Mound to complete the season, including the playoffs, and then not invite them back next season.
Otherwise, this shows poor sportsmanship on the association.
In Indiana, when the score margin reaches a certain point (usually 40 points), they go to a running clock to speed up the game.
In a lot of sports there are vastly different levels of play. This is why there are different leagues and such - to group individuals and teams together with competition at a similar level of play - to keep it interesting and fun. Sounds like the one team does not belong in that league playing with the other teams. Fine, mistakes happen, they should be playing elsewhere. But you don't disqualify them in the middle of the season, or even worse, yank the rug out from under them right before the playoffs.
Like all college teams, they would lose by at least 4 touchdowns. A while back an oddsmaker calculated the spread between Alabama and the worst NFL team. (I think it was the Bills that year). The Bills were a 24 pt. favorite.
I only read what was posted.
It sounds like they just belong in a different league. Most schools with 300 students won’t be able to compete against schools with 3000 students because the talent base is so different. It could be something similar here. It can be like having a heavyweight boxer go against a bantamweight.
There are also leagues meant to emphasize having fun - playing on a level like I did when we were kids and there weren’t any “leagues”. If a team is then formed that treats it like a professional sport, they will wipe out the backyard teams having fun but NOT seriously competing to dominate the world.
I’m a runner. Never did better than a 6 minute mile. Does that mean I should never be allowed to run? Or that the only races should be filled with national level competitors? There is a place for leagues where kids go to have fun but do NOT practice long hours...just as many of us did playing in the 60s.
“The Flower Mound Rebels, which is made up of 7- and 8-year-olds, had a perfect record and had outscored their opponents 199-6, Keller Youth Association Vice President Rhett Taylor told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/texas-youth-football-team-booted-playoffs-good-rcna6226
Okay, they are simply playing in the wrong level league. Period.
Yep - no liberalism has moved toward “if everyone can’t have a trophy then NOBODY gets a trophy”. The same as “if everyone can’t handle advanced math then NOBODY gets taught advanced math”.
Nothing but communism - lower all boats, everyone lives in equal misery.
This is spot on. Too many folks (and entirely too many sports parents) want to ‘win’ at the expense of the quality of the game and the experience. A superior team playing much inferior teams doesn’t get better, quite the opposite.
Why does anyone get all worked up over Pop Warner football, has their been a new coaches fight video yet?
Ohhhh...somebody sounds butthurt.
Then there should be two leagues, one select and one recreational . That’s why select teams have to travel…to find worthy opponents . If parents can’t afford the travel, the select need to do fundraisers or get some sort of underwriting .
That won’t solve some issues.
The year before I started high school our football team had a four year record of 32 to 0. The seniors had never seen the team lose.
The reason was easy to see. We had a future star NFL running back on our team. There really isn’t a way to mess with a league that might have been in place for a century, just to have to change it back four years later.
I would bet that practically every really good NFL player created a similar situation at his high school.
It took a whole two games into the season for the league to decide he was too good and sent him to play with kids two years older.
By the end of the season, he was playing with kids four years older.
There is a point where teams or players need to be told to play with people at their own level. Sports shouldn't be like politics where the worst rise to the top.
That was brutal.
Were you beating your opponents, on average, 29 to 0?
Just give them all participation medals.
And TexASS will just bend over and take it ... Spit
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