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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I totally agree with you. I taught at a Christian school and there were certain sportsmanship rules that were in place that were followed during the game. They were not just teaching the kids to win, but the higher goal of how to win and how to witness.
It was stated on TV this morning that this guy was not on the faculty, but was just a coach. He probably was out of concert with the administration on how to play the game and their rules of sportsmanship.
100 to 0??? Did the other team even show up? That should be worth at least 2 points!
I am boggled that the coach was fired.
OMG are we trying to make this 100-0 debacle fit into our “success is hated in America” template?
100-0 is absurd. F it, if the coach is that stupid, I’m glad he’s fired lol.
The guy's an a$$hole. He doesn't belong on a HS bench.
One of the hallmarks of a good leader is that you try to use every opportunity to your best advantage. Putting all your effort into crushing a team with no chance of winning just so you can score 100 points is counter productive. A wise coach would try to use 2nd and 3rd stringers as much as possible to give then some seasoning in a real game so they are better able to support the starters in the next game that won't be a blowout. This coach has issues. If I were one of his players I would feel like a tool.
“I have read that they full court pressed until they it 100. If that is true he should have been fired.”
You’re right he sould have gone for 200-0!!!
Bull, there’s plenty the coach could have done. He could have let his 4 or 5 play point guard and put his 1 and 2 underneath. He could have required only left handed lay-ups. He could have fed all passes through his weakest player. Any of these things would have honed his players’ skills that will help them later in games. Instead he chose to humiliate a demonstrably weaker opponent.
>>What is a coach to do when he puts in the scrubs of the scrubs and they keep on scoring? I’ve always wondered about that.
Or worse the scrubs start making mistakes which ends up in a close game.
When I played HS football, I was on the JV squad in soph year. We were ranked #3 in the state, and pretty much kicked the snot out of all teams we played. Well we were up 35-0 on this one team, so the coach decides to put us JV guys in for the last quarter. We gave up two quick touchdowns but still ended up winning quite easily. I mean we were all sophomores playing against seniors, and at that age, that is a big difference.
Well coach was not happy with our play, so we got to run suicides after the game (you know, spring to the 10 yard line and back, to the 20 and back, till you do the whole field). 1 set for each point we gave up. In front of a crowd full of fans. Oh boy was that fun. A couple guys ended up hurling in the end zone.
The following monday when showed no mercy when we played the jv squad from the same school. I think it was 42-0.
See my post #63. That was a Christian school and conference.
Enlighten us please. What is an acceptable margin of victory in this case?
It’s a school for kids with dyslexia, not a school for kids with mental retardation (special needs).
Literal LOL!
I played fast pitch softball on the high school varsity team. Every year, there was one team that was absolutely horrible. We’d score just enough to enact the mercy rule and then our coach would tell the umpire and refs to keep an eye on the baserunners. Baserunners could not leave the base before the ball was pitched. We’d leave base early or otherwise purposely get out without looking like we were trying to do so. We still got the win and the game ended quickly and gracefully.
There was no reason for the coach to have them full court press the whole game or to run up the score. I don’t think he should’ve been fired, but I do think some discipline was warranted. I also do not think that the team should have to forfeit. Those girls won fair and square and were doing what the coach told them to do.
And the parents aren’t OUTRAGED that he was fired??????????????????????
piss poor excuse for a Christian school, team, coach and players.
A good coach:
1. Would not have scheduled this game.
2. At about 40-0, required his team to gain benefit by requiring good passwork...Each player must touch a pass prior to a shot being taken. Each point guard must dribble with only thier left hand. Each underneath guy must only score from the perimeter.
Christian my azz.
I’m sure that the parents didn’t send their girls to The Covenant Academy to become WNBA stars. They more than likely expected the school to teach them some dignity and class.
The coach only has or had eight players. He played them all. The winning school is a very small school with only 30 girls and 8 who play basketball. These girls experienced an 82-6 loss themselves and yet no one was fired as a result. I also think there is too much being made of “learning disabilities” in some of the comments. I noticed someone even suggested these kids were retarded which they most certainly are not.
A comment from one of the girls on the winning team: I have ADD and ADHD. There is nothing that separates me from anyone on the Dallas Academy girls team, so there is nothing that should separate the value of our sides. What we did that night is what we are on this team for: to play basketball and win. As for the media calling our actions “unchristian”, that is very sad. For this team, and our coach are a living testimony. I am not sorry for how we played that night because I know that no harm was intended and I also know no harm occurred. I would hope America was more willing to read the lies in between the lines. The coach is as important to the team as we are—we are with him 100%.
When I was in Jr. high, we were beating an opposing basketball team 90 something to 20 something, and our second string had played from half time on. The coach on the other side and the refs had a talk with our coach and told him to stop running up the score. His response was, “I’m not going to tell my second string kids they can’t score.”
The next time we played that team they beat us, not by much, but they beat us. Would it have been fair to tell guys who seldom got play time that they couldn’t score?
no mercy rule
Then it doesn’t sound so ‘unfair’
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