Full court press, taking 3-point shots, and the coach yelling and screaming from the bench to go for 100 points.
The guy's an a$$hole. He doesn't belong on a HS bench.
Agreed! Lousy sportsmanship! He could have played his 2nd and 3rd string players so they could have gotten valuable experience. Posters on other threads on this suggested other ways of playing the game which would have been more challenging for his team. Here are some of the other threads
Apologetic Basketball Coach: 100-0 Win Not Christ-Like
School seeks to forfeit 100-0 win
Dallas Hoops Team Wants To Forfeit 100-0 Win (Texas - Read the entire story. Kind of sad.)
The guy's an a$$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 am a high school basketball coach and do find it disgraceful that a coach would keep full-court pressing in that situation. Heck, I once beat a team 66-6 and we stopped pressing in the 1st quarter ahead 20-0. I had to tell my girls to make 5 passes before shooting and to let the other girl’s team shoot so that we could work on our rebounding and outlets (but no fast break). I still got yelled at by the administration. So, it can go both ways. But there is no need to humiliate and to press when way ahead like that.
I taught at a private school last year here in Dallas that competed in this same league. I shared an office with the boys basketball coach and he told me about a game early in the season where, because of illnesses, he only had 5 boys to play. During the second half of the game (in which he was, of course, soundly defeated), one of his good players got a little too aggressive and behaved inappropriately, so our coach benched him. That’s right. Leaving him with only 4 players. The other team who had a solid lead, went ahead and pulled one of their players so it was an even 4 on 4. The boys all played the game out, no one hung their head in shame and both coaches behaved like “Christians.”
I don’t think everyone here has all the facts when spouting all the typical conservative ‘competition is good for you’ dogma. Sometimes there’s just no point in acting like a horse’s arse. This was one of them. I think the call to fire this guy was appropriate, and probably instigated by parents of girls on the team, if I know these private schools the way I think I do. As a parent, I would have been appalled by this display, and as a paying parent to a private school, I would certainly have complained to the headmaster about the message he sent to my child in his behavior and coaching choices.
Remember, this was a Christian school team, not a private, competitive league. I suspect if you go to The Covenant School’s website there’s a mission statement that explains their philosophy and I’ll bet this coach’s actions violated the spirit of their mission. They can’t afford to lose students over something like this. Private schools are struggling...the very school I taught at last year is closing down after this school year. Reason? Lack of funding.
I agree, the winning coach is a jerk. He shouldn’t be in charge of anything.
I played Varsity football (badly)and my coach made my Drill Sergeants seem like sensitive, caring fellows.