Coach suspended after 161-2 victory. Is that fair?

No reason for the coach to be suspended. This is ridiculous. Maybe the other team should fire their coach for being, quite obviously, one of the worst in the sport. A bad high school team should be able to score more than 2 points against even the top college games. If they can't do it against another high school team, they need a new coach. The kids on the winning team should always play the best they can play.

Collin wrote:

No reason for the coach to be suspended. This is ridiculous. Maybe the other team should fire their coach for being, quite obviously, one of the worst in the sport. A bad high school team should be able to score more than 2 points against even the top college games. If they can't do it against another high school team, they need a new coach. The kids on the winning team should always play the best they can play.

Wasn't this in girl's basketball? If so, you are WAY off base with your "A bad high school team should be able to score more than 2 points against even the top college games." comment.

Lots of girls HS teams and players are simply terrible and can be COMPLETELY shut down by a good HS squad.

Should he get suspended? No.

Should he feel super silly? Yes.

Trialswatcher wrote:

You're insane, and I guarantee you have never coached youth sports at any level, or surely you shouldn;t be

and yeah, I guess that is one life lesson

The other is, the ability to clearly be able to pick out a jerk off out of a line up, probably more valuable.

I've coached a fair number of kids, none of which were in the sport of girls high school basketball thankfully.

What I can assure you of, is no team that I coach will ever be defeated by that margin. It starts with my attitude. Likely the losing coach had a weak "have mercy on us" attitude like you do.

I was on a high school basketball team that won a game something like 108-16. The second time we played the team I think it was only a 30 point win. I can say in our case, we were not trying to run the score up mercilessly. Now 161-2, seems a bit more excessive, but my point is, these kind of games are not always as cut and dry as the score might appear.

Running the score up with no mercy at all is obviously not the right approach, but the hard part is determining at what point going too easy is just removing the game of basketball (or whatever) from the contest. If you're playing reserves in the second half is it "better" for the inferior team if the superior team passes the ball around for minutes at a time or misses shots on purpose? At some point, I'm not sure that's any better.

I think they should probably have a rule to call games once a score differential gets to a certain spread level.

Why put on the full court press at all? You obviously get more from practice than this game. This guy is a joke and while may coach the game sufficiently he has failed to set any type of example in sportsmanship. As a human race I think we all appreciate mercy in defeat. When you're up by 50 time to call off the dogs.

dial it up wrote:

Trialswatcher wrote:

You're insane, and I guarantee you have never coached youth sports at any level, or surely you shouldn;t be

and yeah, I guess that is one life lesson

The other is, the ability to clearly be able to pick out a jerk off out of a line up, probably more valuable.

I've coached a fair number of kids, none of which were in the sport of girls high school basketball thankfully.

What I can assure you of, is no team that I coach will ever be defeated by that margin. It starts with my attitude. Likely the losing coach had a weak "have mercy on us" attitude like you do.

Ah, the resident faux-macho moron rears his ugly head again.

I see I see wrote:

dial it up wrote:

I've coached a fair number of kids, none of which were in the sport of girls high school basketball thankfully.

What I can assure you of, is no team that I coach will ever be defeated by that margin. It starts with my attitude. Likely the losing coach had a weak "have mercy on us" attitude like you do.

Ah, the resident faux-macho moron rears his ugly head again.

Ill throw you into the weak minded category too.

Clear view wrote:

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/12182194/california-girls-high-school-basketball-coach-suspended-two-games-161-2-win

Give the winning coach credit- at least the team didn't lose in the final 3 1/2 minutes.

Dial it up wrote:

I see I see wrote:

Ah, the resident faux-macho moron rears his ugly head again.

Ill throw you into the weak minded category too.

Only problem being your scrawny ass couldn't throw a football ten yards, let alone throw a real man like myself.

Millennial (born 1989) wrote:

This is very upsetting. I'm glad the coach got suspended. And I truly hope the team with 2 points got their trophies/medals for participating.

POD

I see I see wrote:

Dial it up wrote:

Ill throw you into the weak minded category too.

Only problem being your scrawny ass couldn't throw a football ten yards, let alone throw a real man like myself.

Dial it up wrote:

I see I see wrote:

Only problem being your scrawny ass couldn't throw a football ten yards, let alone throw a real man like myself.

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Last refuge, I see. Don't worry, your mom likes you (probably).

Exactly what i was thinking. Its a coach with a poor attitude thats breeding that same losing mentality in his kids teaching them its ok to blame the other team for beating them that bad, im a coach and i would bet money that could coach any group of kids to do better than that.

I see that the score was 104-1 at halftime. That means the losing team only scored on two free throws. That's as ugly a loss as one can achieve.

Not to mention how much it would suck to be a starter on that team who works hard in practice every day and not get to even play because the other team sucks too bad.

Another good point, the only way the worse team will get better is to play people better than them, if i was on the losing team i certainly wouldnt want them to let up. I think thats even more degrading, and makes it even less fun. Theres always a way to win, and even small successes against a team so much better thats actually trying is all around better, more productive and more fun than doing better against a team thats not trying.

lvknrb wrote:

Exactly what i was thinking. Its a coach with a poor attitude thats breeding that same losing mentality in his kids teaching them its ok to blame the other team for beating them that bad, im a coach and i would bet money that could coach any group of kids to do better than that.

That's right! With you at the helm the score would be 161-4! Don't feel bad though, you'd have won the bet.