Posted on 01/26/2009 11:33:04 AM PST by GeronL
DALLAS (CBS) ―
The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 reportedly was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper stating he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity" and posted a detailed explanation on a hoops Web site.
The Covenant School girls basketball coach Coach Micah Grimes, along with girls from his team, released a statement on the website of the Flight Basketball Academy.
Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."
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To use a phrase from Lenin, those 0bamaites are useful idiots. Their wisdom may be in academics, but their intelligence is compromised by idiocy.
“Getting excited about scoring 100 on a team that hasn’t won a game in 4 years and includes handicapped kids is pretty pathetic.”
Coaching and HS sports are about more than just winning, running the score up.
The “winning” coach can’t give his players something he doesn’t have: Class.
I'd believe that if the school fired him that night or the next day. They didn't. They only fired him after some candy ass sports writer got his panties all in a twist and wrote an artcle full of inaccuracies and awful insinuations.
I would fully expect my employer to fire me if I publicly disagreed with them. I wouldn’t like it, and I might feel I had done the right thing, but they can certainly fire me for it if the choose.
LOL, all of you guys need to grow up.
It was poor sportsmanship. You either get that or you have no morals.
It seems the market of free ideas is a conservative principle, but now some of you don’t like that.
I think they didn’t believe that it was part of his job to make a public statement disagreeing with them.
Christian schools generally hold their employees and their students to a higher standard. BTW I taught at a Christian school. I know this would not have happened in our school. The coaches were more concerned about building Christian athletes than in making star players.
Again, he should have been smarter than to publicly criticize his employer. I don’t know many employers who wouldn’t fire you or I for that.
Building character, learning sportsmanship, etc. have real-life applications. They teach people to do things the right way. The "simply win games" approach teaches kids lessons such as, the end justifies the means. And in later life, it leads to behavior of the sort that caused the current banking crisis.
I don’t think Grimes worked for the school other than to coach the girls basketball team. I’m not sure what his employment is.
The Dallas Academy team hasn’t won a game according to some articles I’ve read. The Dallas Covenant school apparently started a basketball program four years ago and went from a start up to a contender for the state championship last year. They even lost a game early on in their program 80 something to 6, if I remember correctly.
There are two sides to this story of which we’ll most likely never know all the facts. Apparently the game was played at Covenant so why didn’t the Covenant school officials step in and stop the game themselves instead of waiting until now to forfiet and appoligize?... Other articles I’ve read said the home crowd was cheering the team on towards the 100 point mark of which they obtained. The Academy coach said they didn’t tape the game but that maybe Covenant did. A video would show a little more of what truly went on without the emotions tied to it.
The Academy coach said his girls got off 7 shots at the basket. The Covenant girls made 4 three point attempts so basically I see it as a running game which employed. Steal the ball and run for the layup.
LOL I can tell you that even Christian schools will fire you if you don’t follow their rules, and/or if you publicly criticize them.
I doubt this was his sole income, (not really sure he was paid, but maybe) since it was stated he did not otherwise work or teach at the school. I don’t know many schools that can afford a fully paid coach who doesn’t also do something else at the school.
Absolutely correct.
No, they fired him after he posted his disagreement with their statement on the internet. Really, many are ignoring that little factoid.
You’re exactly right. How many people are decrying the greedy people who didn’t need zillions more dollars but just continued raking in whatever they could at any cost (to other people)?
I am tired of living in a nation where most people don’t even know what a sense of honor is.
Yeah, I don’t know how they schedule those things. My first teaching cert is PE but I will publicly admit I have never taught PE and never was interested in that or coaching (Just had an Exercise Phys degree when I decided to go into teaching).
During the second half, The Covenant School players could have done something really hard — teaching the other players while playing the game. If they did it well, then next time they might have some challenging competition instead of a team they could walk over.
“What score would have been acceptable to you? 50-0? 25-0? 1-0? “ I would have had my players let them shoot, no pressure on the ball, pass 20 times before shooting. My worst players would have played the majority of the game, I would have asked the opposing coach if we could let the clock run. Then whatever score it ended up would be OK with me.
2. “What circumstances need to exist to justify failing to play competitively?” I dunno, maybe a 50 point lead against a team with disabled kids.
3. “Who, exactly, has been victimized by the actual result? What responsibility does any other party have to eliminate this “victimization”?” The victimized were the players on the winning team who should have been taught sportsmanship.
4. “ I understand that the losing team has never won a game. Should all of the other teams have refused to play them? Is there no value whatever to playing and losing?”
Your best question, this game should not have been scheduled, there is no value for anyone when the discrepancy in talent is too great.
5. “Do you support banning the losing team from playing any more? If not, what guidance do you supply for their opposition? Certainly you owe the coaches of the other teams proper notice of what constitutes cause for them to be fired.” Not worthy of a response.
Your comments remind me of why I quit coaching, too many ass****s. What in the hell has happended to this site?
C'mon. After a point even an NFL team will ease off a bit.
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