There are a lot of huge blow outs. When your team gets ahead you play your bench. If your bench is still killing them, maybe you play four man?
The biggest problem; what is the purpose of a scholastic sports team? If it merely to pound opponents into the ground, maybe you need to rethink your program. The reality is, most teams will never make the finals let alone have a winning season. Furthermore, most players will never play organized ball after high school (the odds of getting a college scholarship are low). With that in mind, what is the purpose of the program? It probably should be something more than to teach athletics; sportsmanship, ethics, how to live a meaningful life. If that is the goal of the program, then you need to question lop sided scores but also recognize that they do happen. In other words, your mission statement in school athletics needs to be ore than win.
This team probably hadn’t thought their purpose out. Most teams don’t.
Years ago, Southern Illinois University, who nearly always has marginal teams finally won a game. The coach noted they did the right thing and took the opposing QB out early (read permanent, career ending knee injury). If that was the right thing to do to win, why not simply knee cap him before the game?
These programs need to be better than that. That said, I do not think there should have been a suspension or any sort of legislation with regards to this story.
RIght, rey.
What would be wrong with talking to the opposing coach at a timeout? “Look, I hate the idea of running up the score. I’ve pulled the press, sat back in a zone, put in the scrubs, insisted on 5 passes before a shot, but even the scrubs are scoring. What do you recommend. I don’t want to shave points, but this is embarrassing for all of us. If you forfeit, we could mingle our teams and play for practice, maybe both teams have some fun, because neither of us is having fun right now.”
Be interesting to see if the winning team was trash talking, too. Then I think we’d see what they were learning in an atmosphere of savage perversity.