Coach suspended for winning 92-4

I think that the winning team played 12 players.

season greetings wrote:

Should a coach be suspended for perfect scoring a XC meet? What if the top 7 are a minute ahead of the next teams first?

Apples to oranges.

zcxvxczv wrote:

I think that the winning team played 12 players.

It was 80-0 after 3 quarters. When the "winning" team played bench for the final quarter score was 12-4.

catholic school wrote:

zcxvxczv wrote:

I think that the winning team played 12 players.

It was 80-0 after 3 quarters. When the "winning" team played bench for the final quarter score was 12-4.

They didn't put in their bench until the 4th quarter? That's wrong.

Way back when Michigan had a 4 season span where they won every game but one, they scored over 2000 points giving up less than 50. The last game of that 4 season they lost to Chicago 2-0.

Man are things changing or what?

If the sport needs a mercy rule, score differential or tap out, fine. There shouldn’t be a suspension for winning too much though.

From what I can tell they weren’t taunting the other team. Didn’t break any rules.

Sounds like Republicans crying over their huge loss. Go Donald!

season greetings wrote:

If the sport needs a mercy rule, score differential or tap out, fine. There shouldn’t be a suspension for winning too much though.

From what I can tell they weren’t taunting the other team. Didn’t break any rules.

80-0 3/4ths of the way through a game and heaving up 3s is not taunting? I hope you are not a coach.

Rules of Sportsmanship. Failure as human beings. Very unbecoming of people attending/working for a religious school.

Gamesmanship is more your style: profiting from an unfair advantage by words or body language (fast-breaking and heaving 3s).

DanM wrote:

Why did the coach of the losers keep the team on the floor for an entire game ? Throw in the towel at halftime and go home.

What kind of wack *** coach would do that?

Back in the 1980s, I was on a freshman basketball team that was not great but decent (we wound up being 14-7). We had to play a team loaded with talent who had an a-hole coach who ran the score up. It was 31-2 after the first quarter and he pressed the whole game so the final score was 121-31. Based on how sensitive people now are to blow-outs, you would think that I was traumatized for life after this thorough beat down but that was hardly the case. I wound up being one of the top runners in the state and ran D1 in college. People need to get some perspective on life. Other people are starving, being tortured, dying of awful diseases, being mentally abused, etc so getting blown out in some meaningless high school game that nobody cares about is not exactly something that will permanently mar kids for life. It's a learning experience. I learned rather quickly that I wasn't going to be playing in the NBA and that running was my calling. People need to get a grip here.

Ben Shiller wrote:

I wound up being one of the top runners in the state and ran D1 in college. . . . I learned rather quickly that I wasn't going to be playing in the NBA and that running was my calling. People need to get a grip here.

You seem to think you can speak for an entire team of 10-12 girls. How many of those girls do you think will become top athletes in their state and compete for a D1 school? If you got an athletic scholarship, how many of the losing girls do you think will get one? The point being, your personal situation is irrelevant.

Liberalism is a disease.

zcxvxczv wrote:

I do not favor the mercy rule. Kids aren't that fragile they will be destroyed by being crushed in a game.

In fact, sometimes a thorough thumping can teach a good lesson.

Personal anecdote: I got absolutely crushed by my first med school exam. Like a score that a monkey hitting random answer choices might have equalled. I'd skated through undergrad with poor study habits, and didn't realize just how bad I was until that point. That exam made me realize that I needed to massively change my approach. I did massively change my approach, and as a result I ended up scoring 90th %ile+ on every other exam of my med school career including board exams and matching into a very competitive specialty.

If that first exam had shown mercy on me and I'd scored somewhere around the class average, I might have decided I was happy to be average and just cruised along not making any major changes. Getting completely annihilated was what gave me the kick in the a$$ I needed to shake me from complacency. I am eternally grateful that someone finally put a challenge in front of me that forced me to come face to face with just how pitifully I was really doing. That was essentially my 92-4 game, and I'm glad as hell it happened.

It's all about how you respond. Don't teach kids that they should feel slighted by the other team or humiliated by the result. Teach them that they've just had an honest accounting of where they stand, and that it's up to them to change the situation.

Agreed. My daughter was thumped her first math exam this year with 6.5% as she made some calculation errors and the teacher gave zero partial credit, and she turned around and actually raised her grade to an A in the same quarter and then got an A the second quarter as well. It forced her to work hard at the subject and come to like it a lot, whereas she slacked in some other subjects where she had the sense that she could get an A even with some late effort.

You're going to have one sided games in school sports.

But 80-0, after three quarters, is disgraceful. Pressing, with your starters, after halftime, is wrong.

If, in the second half, the winning team was playing their bench, not pressing, and simply running their offense, and the the score ends up being lopsided, that's going to happen.

Liberals ruining sports.

I hate when people say something shouldn't matter because greater injustices are going on in the world. By that token nothing would really matter??

The coach was wrong and the suspension was correct.

season greetings wrote:

Should a coach be suspended for perfect scoring a XC meet? What if the top 7 are a minute ahead of the next teams first?

Once the gun goes off, the coach is just background noise.

What a silly example.

Do you really think a race is the same as a basketball game?

Sports should teach valuable life lessons. If the business across the street is taking all of your customers are they going to stop full court press or shooting threes after two quarters? No. They are going to keep going until they run you out of business.