Posted on 10/22/2013 9:29:33 AM PDT by jimbo123
There was little chance of defeat, when Aledo’s undefeated Bearcats faced Fort Worth’s Western Hills on the football field Friday.
The final score, 91-0, though, led one parent to file an official complaint of bullying against the entire coaching staff.
Aledo ISD administrators say the complaint suggests the coaches should have told players to take it easy on the competition. “I would never ask our kids not to play hard,” said Aledo football coach Tim Buchanan. “I would never tell them, ‘Go out and let them score’. That’s not what you want to teach kids.”
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In PA (and most states) you have a mercy rule, a running clock in the second half when a team is up by 35 or more.
There is a reason for that. These are still kids and sometimes the mismatches are brutal. No high school team is coming back 5 touchdowns in the final 24 minutes.
My mention of soccer wasn’t aimed at you. Sorry. It was just a general comment, and there actually were only two, not “many”
I have become a big soccer fan in the last few years. Strenuous, non-stop action and a lot rougher than it looks.
BTW, why so many snide remarks about soccer? If you’ve never played, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
...actually, there’s only one mention of soccer on this thread,and not really all that snide...
...soccer was fun enough, and it shouldn’t be mocked, but more than any other sport, it epitomizes the leftist European worldview that the public schools are aching to implement here...the fact that hand/eye coordination is de-emphasized in soccer limits the variance between male and female performance, and is the perfect example of the gender neutral ideal that is the wet dream for feminist elites running the schools today...
...it also more than anything else fulfills the commitment to non-scored competitions favored by the left, because scoring is at such premium...
In 1969, the Whittier College Poets bullied my hapless Occidental College Tigers, scoring 49 points in the first quarter. However, they took pity on us and put their B- and C teams in for the rest of the game, winning 49-8.
The final score, 91-0, though, led one parent to file an official complaint of bullying against the entire coaching staff.
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The only bully here is that parent. That poor child. Having to suffer an embarrassing defeat is one thing - but to have a helicopter mom who’s (stupidly) trying to protect her widdle boy from the harsh realities of life is even worse.
Hey. Sometimes life kicks you in the butt with a 91-0 loss. Live and learn. Looking for a wussie, weaselly way out is wrong.
I don't know about HS, but the clock continues to run in my son's league when a team goes up by 30.
Pfft.
They lost the first 3 games of the year:
61-7
62-10
63-0
Puhleeze.
Two, if you count the little trophy picture.
Not to get into an off-topic discussion here but my reason for liking soccer is the fact that you are running constantly for two 45-min. halves, no time outs. The eye-foot coordination is pretty amazing as is scoring a goal with a header or a bicycle kick. Scoring is at a premium because the defense is so good. You wouldn’t think it would be that hard to hit a net that wide.
These are still kids and sometimes the mismatches are brutal.
...I know there is no way to eliminate the humiliation involved in getting blown out...and in high school football (and in college ball also) blatant mismatches are the norm...I’m thinking along the lines of golf, in which a handicapping system is put in play, whereby one of our local teams, Manheim Central, would begin play against a vastly inferior squad, like Ephrata, down by 24 points...63 points later, (what really happened), then renders a score of 39-0, a far more benificent beating...sure, handicaps are an embarrassment, but at least the box score in the paper looks a lot better...
SO its bullying if they don’t say “Hey guys we’re putting in the bench warmers, because you stink that bad”
>>put in the cheerleaders. Would that be considered humiliation or bullying?
I dunno, but might give “scoring” a whole ‘nuther meaning...
my reason for liking soccer is the fact that you are running constantly for two 45-min. halves, no time outs...
...not really...quite often numerous players are not running at all...
Scoring is at a premium because the defense is so good...
...actually, scoring is minimal because of the difficulty of coordinating motion using feet instead of hands...and to a jaded mind like mine, the object of soccer appears to be to kick the ball out of bounds as quickly as possible, and then to put it back into play and kick it out of bounds again, over and over and over...
I have no problem with the score and the coach. When you put in your second and third strings you do not tell them to screw up and goof off but to play hard just as if it was a close game.
I do have a problem with a coach who would leave in his first string late into the 4th quarter just to run up the score in a game that was settled early in the 1st quarter. No class.
Psssst... its just a game.
Just heard on Foxnews that even the winning teams locker room was like a funeral. The players felt bad. It was the coach that wanted to jack up the score and humiliate the other teams players.
Being easy on the other team wouldn’t humiliate them?
But they keep playing because even the players on the losing team can get yards and catches and possibly a touchdown for their individual stats.
I am angry that this ridiculous story is taking up space that should be devoted to IRS, Benghazi, Obamacare, and Fast & Furious scandals.
Yup. Because this story was posted there is absolutely no space whatsoever left for other stories!!! sarc/
Old Time baseball pitcher Rube Waddell enjoyed waving his teammates off the field and then striking out the side. He actually did so only in exhibition games, since the rules prohibit playing with fewer than nine men on the field in regulation play. But in a league game in Detroit, Waddell actually had his outfielders come in close and sit down on the grass to watch him strike out the side.
Probably slightly humiliating for the other team.
Most coaches would call the game with scores that lopsided. That said, what does Aledo have that Western Hills doesn’t? Maybe the losing coach needs to beef up his game plan or find a new career.
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