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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That’s a lot more complicated than just using a mercy clock.
Here in western PA we only play schools of the same enrollment class against each other. Not that there aren’t still blowouts, but at least you don’t have a school with 300 kids playing one with 1500.
Losing like this teaches you one thing. You have bad coaches who are doing a poor job with the kids. Granted they can only do so much with the talent and skills that are available on the team.
As for the “bullying” team how do we know that the other team wasn’t playing their younger players. These kids need time to gain game experiences too. No matter how you practice you cannot replicate real game situations.
Yes, they keep playing and yes the second and third stringers get a chance to play.
Now it would be bad form for a winning coach in that situation to be faking punts and trying trick plays when he already had a huge lead. But you can’t blame a coach or player if he hands the ball off and no one tackles a runner.
Here in DFW, you'll have schools with 3000 kids playing schools with 6000 kids.
Well, there wasn’t much room for anything else on Fox & Friends this AM. Elizabeth even took a text on air from her hubby about football.
If you read my whole post, I explained that my wrath was not aimed at the poster — just at the news media that would rather ralk about anything other than the IRS, Benghazi, Fast & Furious, or the Obamacare mess.
speaking of the Obamacare mess, I read that the healthcare.gov website put applicants’ names on the sex offender registry list. I read that here, but they haven’t chosen to report that on Fox yet. I suppose they don’t have air time because they have to spend so much time on football scores. (dripping with sarcasm)
A friend of mine told me a story about his daughter when she was 5 or 6. She was a little scoring machine in soccer.
One time as she was taking the ball down field, a ref told her... don’t you think you have scored enough? The little fire-cracker told him... if we aren’t supposed to keep score, how would you know? She continued down field and scored again :)
I saw an interview with the coach. He took first string out after the first quarter and was playing second, third, fourth string most of the game. The only way he could have avoided running up the score was to tell his players to fumble on the one yard line every time.
Maybe the parent should have spent more time training his kid not be be such a sissy than complaining all the other parents are ‘bullies”.
Kid will grow up to be a sissy, forever.
They did let the clock run.
Depends on how you count. For football, we count boys in grades 9,10,11.
But I have no doubt DFW has bigger schools. It’s Texas.
You caught me. I didn’t click to the article.
I thought Texas used NCAA rules in HS football, so I assumed no mercy clock.
These two schools are classified as 4A under UIL regs. 4A schools have student enrollments from 1005 to 2,089. Aledo has about 1139 students and Western Hills has about 1430. That’s as evenly matched as you can get.
Aledo is 87% white and 9% Hispanic with 8% disadvantaged.
Western Hills is 43% white, 33% Hispanic and 19% Black with 30% disadvantaged.
When I was a senior in HS, our football team lost the homecoming game 20-0. The opposite team was a deaf school. No one complained about bullying. Well, maybe someone did, but those complaints probably fell on deaf ears.
I’ve been on both sides of this as a coach. I gave a speech before one game that, “nobody comes to our house and beats us by fifty points!” They didn’t. They beat us by fifty five points. I also had a game where I played our third string kids outside their positions (our post as a point guard) and we still kept scoring. We won by fifty points. I guess it depends on what you want to teach your kids. If you are consistently getting beat by fifty points, then you need a major reorganization. I would think that the head of the athletic department might put out a call for a retired coach to serve as a mentor for the head coach. And, some people aren’t cut out for coaching. Those kids aren’t learning anything when they get consistently whipped by fifty points. Time for a timeout for the coaching staff. Maybe just work on defense and fundamentals for awhile.
The explanation is simple. We had a future Heisman Trophy winner attending our school prior to that year.
Lessons should be that losing sucks and things change. Back in ancient times in my high school days, our football team was beat by the state champions 73-0. Sucked to ten decimal places. Decades later in the present, that other school still has the same coach who just became the winningest coach in HS football. But he no longer has a practically unlimited pool of player to choose from due to new schools taking a bite out of his district. We now routinely beat that team on our runs to the state championship.
Was interested in this basketball like score from Friday. In South Carolina SCISA (8-Man) football;
Charleston Collegiate 86, St. John Christian 68
Two teams that seriously need a defense.
Excellent point.
The biggest mistake I made as a first time coach (just six months ago) was thinking my 11 & 12 YOs were at the same skill level that I was at their age.
BIG Mistake! I came to my senses after we'd lost our first 5 games. I spent the remaining month focusing on fundamentals: throwing, catching, base running, etc. We didn't have much time: one night of batting practice, i.e. 15 minutes per player, and one two-hour practice a week.
We won 5 out of our last 8 games, and made it to the semi-finals to boot.
From watching my son's team this fall, focusing on blocking and tackling (swarm to the ball and strip it) earlier would have paid off.
Our kids like playing football, they're just undersized and don't get angry enough for tackle football. They're hard workers, and will improve as they mature.
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