Anyone want to bet his boss voted for Obama?
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IMO ... it is way past the time to bring back tar and feathers
Perhaps the school with the losing team should hire him?
I have read that they full court pressed until they it 100. If that is true he should have been fired.
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. The team remains winless during the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
No the largest pool of potential players.
Same mentality that gave rise to the de facto enforcement of Title IX and why girls/womens sports are derided for their silly ‘be nice’ aspect.
His problem is that he lacks a few things, such as class and sportsmanship. His behavior during and after the game is not excusable for a HS coach. He's teaching precisely the wrong lessons to his players.
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.
That reminds me of a game around 15 years ago in the Eastern part of Georgia. An all black girls team was undefeated. They played a private school which had five little blondes starting.
The amazing thing was the little blondes just beat the tar out of the other team. Actually it wasn’t as surprising as I originally thought. The private school had only lost a couple of games all year. Those little girls were aggressive as all get out.
I applaud the girls of the Dallas Academy for not giving up. It’s a very small school that takes on girls with learning disabilities. I saw some of them interviewed on the local Dallas News and it would appear to be mild disabilities in most cases. They may not have a lot of talent but they’ve got a lot of heart.
Getting excited about scoring 100 on a team that hasn’t won a game in 4 years and includes handicapped kids is pretty pathetic.
The “Mr Rogers Generation” where “everyone” is a “winner” and no one is allowed to “feel bad” ~~~ awwwwww.
Second place is first loser, get over it.
If anyone did anything wrong here, it would be the person responsible for scheduling the game between two schools so dramatically mismatched in skill level.
Looks like Obambi has job security.
When a Christian high School beats another school by a 100 to 0 margin, I think that this reflects poorly on the team. I have been on teams where there was a clear mis-match and on those teams, once the final outcome was clear, we would put in the second string and third string players and we would not attempt to run up the score for no other purpose than to massage the first team's egos or to set some kind of world record for a wipe out.
Undoubtedly this coach is a good coach as far as teaching his girls the fundamentals of basketball. But this is a Christian High School and one of the most important lessons that one teaches in Christian School is "good sportsmanship".
Running up a score and deliberately humiliating an opponent by beating them when they are on the ground is a not an example of "good sportmanship".
If anyone other than second and third team members were on the court in the second half, then this coach should be ashamed of himself.
You can win honorably without deliberately humiliating an undermatched opponent. This coach failed to teach that lesson to his pupils. He further embarrassed both the school and his team by not being contrite after being called on the carpet.
I would have fired him too.
“Thats bad. How dare he be successful and play by the rules”
Did anyone actually READ the article?
Winning school: Christian school.
Losing school: School for learning disabled (mentally retarted.)
This is one of those games that probably never should have been scheduled (it’s like pitting special olympic kids vs. regular high school kids.)
The rules are for fairly matched teams. These teams weren’t. Given the circumstances, the coach crossed the line by not telling his kids to back off.
Sports are touted as a way to build character in students. What kind of character are you building in a kid when you tell them to go out and beat up on someone that is smaller and weaker than them? The only lesson these students learned was how to enjoy kicking someone when they are down.
“Thats bad. How dare he be successful and play by the rules”
In pro sports, where the teams are more or less even, you’d be right. Win, and run up the score, who cares?
This is a scholastic environment. Sports as part of the school experience are meant to round an individual and teach about more than just the game. Sportsmanship, ever hear of it? In scholastic games, there are typically mismatches that are beyond anyone’s control. What lesson do these young ladies learn from beating a weaker opponent to the point of humiliation? Remember, this is an opponent in a sporting event, not the enemy in a war.
If you want a win at all costs, and win as big as you can environment, I would suggest that sports not be part of the school program. Be like little league baseball, run it separate from the school, and do it however you wish.
I suspect you’ll find this all to be “weak”. Most likely, your zeal for beating another team in such a fashion would have some gensis in overcompensation for your own short comings.