For the Olympics, I suggest that the Gold Medal winner be disqualified, and the prizes be awarded to the 2nd place, 3rd place, and 4th place finishers.
(liberal) We all want a good experience, and getting pounded doesn’t make me happy. (/liberal)
With this one final game allowed...I’d take the team into it and tell them to go for 100 points. Be relentless. Then I’d tell the ‘league’...shape up the best of the best from the other teams, allowing them an extra player on the field and still promise to beat them by ten points.
Maybe Florida should hire this guy.
In other words, they make everyone feel badly, like the losers they are. They want to drag everyone down to their level and when they cant they gang up on the one and take revenge. Now the winning team feels badly, it’s only fair in the eyes of a loser.
Interesting story. My experience coaching youth sports is that when one team is completely dominant, there was something going on with how the teams were picked (someone got to load up on talent, or someone has a few kids that are over the age/weight limits). There are often a team or two in a league who just don’t get that it’s serious, so they don’t really practice, but 1-2 should at least be kind of close. It sounds like Keller doesn’t take things as seriously as Flower Mound. It also sounds like this might be something of a select team from Flower Mound. New to the shotgun? Is it 1975? New to tackle football? Step one: teach tackling.
The mother of all disconnects.
It sounds to me like this might be the right thing. Leagues have different talent levels. It is the responsibility of the coaches and parents to make sure their team is in a league where other teams are competitive.
It should have been clear to these guys early, and for sure is now, that they had a different level of not just players, but commitment ( training facilities, coaches, and schedules which make them better). That they were taking a more serious approach then the teams who practices twice a week for a month before the season that they were beating up on.
If I was a parent paying for my son to be on a “select” team, (and it ain’t cheap for sure) I would want the team to play other teams near the same level. Not beat up on rec teams - and not get better.
Maybe it was hard for them to find the right league during the pandemic, but hey, this is Texas and fore sure there are other more competitive leagues you can find now. And if you want to play more games now, find a Tournament. Maybe you have to drive 2 hours instead of 1 for a game. That’s the commitment you signed up for.
I suspect there is more to this story.
This is TEXAS, not Vermont. It’s not a state overrun with liberals, it’s a conservative state that takes football seriously.
Youth leagues work hard to keep their teams competitive. Sure, there’s some variation between teams, but for the most part if everyone follows the rules things even out.
But, when one team dominates the others in a youth league as this one is doing (scoring 199 points vs only 6 for opponents), you can be sure some chicanery was involved.
• When players were being distributed between teams, how did all the best players magically get assigned to this one team?
• Does this team has a slew of players that should be playing in a higher level league (due to age or experience).
• Is the team adhering to the league approved practice schedule, or is it over-practicing, and thus giving it an advantage?
Looks like the Flower Mound team is mostly white, if not all white. So of course they are not to be recognized for being good.
This actually happened to my daughter’s 4th grade girls softball team. They were like the Bad News Bears, but when push came to shove, they managed to win the final tournament game by a few runs against the team that was unbeatable by anyone else, and were strong contenders to win.
Our girls beat the “unbeatables” by 2 runs at the end of the 10th inning, as was the customary inning for the score to be tallied in the books. After it was played, the commissioner said it was such a joy to watch the girls play, could they please play another inning because the time had passed by “so quickly”. So our girls agreed to play another inning, thinking that they would go home with the trophy as the best team that year.
They not only played one inning more, they played until the other team had more runs finally. It took 2 more innings for that to happen. After 12 innings, everyone was tired and very hungry. People were ready for this to be over. There were families with younger children in tow, and there were no more concessions opened,
Guess who took home the trophies for the best team? You guessed it. The team that hadn’t been beaten the entire season, until our little upstarts did.
We told our girls that this was a big life lesson. Sometimes the adults in charge cheat. We couldn’t change anything.
We all know who won the real first place trophy. Our girls did.
Changing the rules after play has started is cheating, and changing the rules after play has ended is even bigger cheating.
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.
“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.
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 .
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.
The idea, properly implemented, is not a bad one. I went to a high school that dominated its league for a period of years in several sports. Finally, the league decided until the bottom teams of the league became competitive, the league would have two tiers. For several years, that’s what they did.
But the rule changes took effect AFTER the season during which they were adopted.