Let's talk about this 100-0 High School Girls game

[rallo 137]

obviously this has probably been said...

 

but i'm assuming they were up 50-0 at half... at which point it is time to at least stop the press... maybe put the B or C team in midway through the 3rd quarter... then as a coach i still let them play hard (no press... but i'd allow 3s, and force them to work on running plays etc.) at that point if they were still tearing ass up... it's the other team's fault for being so sh1tty...

 

it's also good sportsmanship to play your hardest... and i feel removing the starters and no full-court press is a good enough 'calling off the dogs' effort

 

i think the main problem here was they left the press on too long... the winning team truly wasn't even improving their skills as they probably weren't even running an offense or working on half court D if they were simply stealing the inbounds and scoring every play

[tikigods 76]

i think they learned a good lesson on psychological phenomenon called mob mentality.

 

Did they shoot the kids at the end of the game and burn their bodies???

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

I have coached HS basketball and I can tell you that a lot of the people that are coaching just don't get it. To be pressing when you are up that big is a joke. To be shooting 3's when you are up that big is a joke.

 

You put in your scrubs and you have them work as hard as they can, but it is essentially just a practice at that point.

 

I hope that the team that won is playing a really tough team next week and they run up the score on them.

[Hurricane Ditka 0]

Some of you are missing the point.

 

This is High School sports. The coach of the winning team is suppose to do what is best for his players. Is leading them through this teaching them anything? How about respect, class, humility, sportsmanship? No, No, No, No.....

 

I AM a high school coach and I can say I have had to teach this lesson a few times. Last season we were up 40-0 at the half and we had already sent our opponents 1st and 2nd string QB to the sideline. My kids were barking to keep the shutout late in the 4th quarter (we were up 46-0 and they were driving on our freshman team). I got more pizzed off at my kids for the manner in which they were representing themselves, their parents, the school and me for acting like a bunch of jerks in the 4th quarter that I went crazy on them in the locker room after the game. We gave up a TD with 20 seconds left and won 46-6. However, the lesson that day was much different then celebrating a 40 point win. I'd like to think 20 years from now my kids will remember that game and that lesson of how to win with class.

[NewbieJr 541]

I am shocked that a father of the losing team didn't go out and clothesline a girl when she was going up for a layup or punch the winning coach in the throat after the game. There is no way I could have ever sat there and watched my daughter's team lose like that. Especially if they were still employing a full-court press in the second half.

 

I would definitely be in prison and on CNN.

[jerryskids 7,085]

I've read thru this trying to figure out a rationalization for the winning team. You know, something like a football team that puts its backups in in a blowout; heck, they need to still play right, and those backups are trying to earn more playing time. Do you tell the backup QB not to throw and work on his game experience?

 

Unfortunately I am fayulling in this endeavor. All indications are that they wanted the 100-0 asswhupping. That is just sad. I'm with Newbie; how another parent, or the coach of the losing team, not kick the winning coach in the nuts is a (unfortunate) miracle.

[Me_2006 14]

Dallas — The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”

 

Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes’ e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout “shameful.”

 

On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.

 

Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school’s assessment.

 

“In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed,” Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. “We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”

 

A phone number for Grimes could not be located by The Associated Press. The Dallas Morning News said Grimes did not respond to their repeated e-mail requests for a telephone interview.

 

There was no answer at a number listed for Doshier.

 

A parent who attended the game said Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.

 

Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.

 

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

 

There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become one-sided. There is, however, “a golden rule” that should have applied in this contest, Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, said last week. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.

 

The story has received national attention, and the Dallas Academy team has been recognized for refusing to give up during the lopsided contest.

[NewbieJr 541]

I love it when justice is ultimately served. This dooshbag is now out of a job and his players learn a valuable lesson.

[Snoopy1 0]

FOCK Covenant Coach Micah Grimes, they were a 90 point favorite and I bet the other way!

[wiffleball 4,797]

My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent,

 

 

Well see, I thought nothing would top his "It just happened" quote, but there ya go - I was wrong.

 

 

"My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent"

 

- So I ran the score up on my opponent.

 

 

 

Tragically, justice won't much be served here. He'll be paid out his entire contract and, this being Texas and all, (Think Friday Night Lights) the guy will be well sought after by some dooshbag program with a ton of money. "Hey - we brought in the 100-0 guy! The Boosters will LOVE it!"

[phillybear 366]

What a bunch of fagguts everybody has become. Ask your grandfather what would happend if you complained about the score in a game when you were younger. He would have punched you in the ear and told you that life isn't about being nice to others.

 

Fock everybody involved in firing this brave coach willing to stand up to the pussies that permeate our culture. I hope the School Board has all their kids drop dead. I hope there are 100 of them.

 

And I'm a kid on the losing team, I am ashamed this morning that my lack of talent and effort led to the firing of another person. Losers. All their life, they will reflect back on what losers they are. Because a bunch of uppity parents decided they were offended by the final score. Instead of the story fading away, they numbskulls brought the story national so those kids could be embarrassed in front of the world. Kudos. Bunch of sick freaks.