They hit 100 points with 4 minutes left and did not score a single point after they hit that plateau. What did they do for 4 minutes?
Yea if I was on that team I would have stared a fight or something. I hate to lose and to be down 49-0 at half time and that other team still playing like they behind, someone would have taken one to the face. But than I would punch my damn self for losing that bad.
The full court press can lead to some RIDICULOUS scores if the athletes are overmatched. I used to ref summer league games and stuff like 80-5, 122-10, etc. wasn't too uncommon. I always wondered why the coaches were such douchebags, though.
I would like to frame this post, particularly the last paragraph. Wow, well done- life kicked my ass 200-0 this past week, and I'm still standing. My son's soccer team one year went 0-10, and they only scored 1 goal in one of the games, getting shut out in the other 9. We never complained, no crying allowed- you play the game and accept the outcome, regardless.
I don't really get this. When I was on a team in my teens we won 60-2. I saw an Under 11's side beat another team 96-0. I also played Australian Rules Football as a high schooler and our team was woeful. In one day of competition we scored about 15 points and gave up maybe over 450 over 4 games. The other teams were absolutely ruthless. We didn't really care, we accepted we were crap. Winning (and losing) is a part of life. I don't understand that people complain about the other team being too good. Blame the organisers. If those kids really are mentally disadvantaged, why was the match allowed to take place at all?
Just saw on CNN that Mark Cuban contacted the team that scored 0 and has invited them to attend a Mavs game in the owner's suite. Sounds like a good trade off to me
I wouldn't really have a problem with the scoreline if the other team just couldn't score but to full court press them? thats just rude and unsportsmanlike.. once it was obvious they were going to win that should of been the end of the press. I bet the coach is some fat loser who sucked at sports himself.
coach was fired http://sports.espn.go.com/highschoo...?id=3859935&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines 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." On its Web site last week, the Covenant School of Dallas, 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 Kyle Queal, head of school, and board chair Todd Doshier. Covenant coach Micah 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 Dallas Morning News 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." Queal would not say if Grimes was fired because of the coach's statement, but told the newspaper that Grimes "now only represents himself." 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. Queal did not immediately return a phone message left at his home Sunday afternoon by the AP. 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, said 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.
The coach probably could have kept his job if he apologized. Maybe he would have gotten suspended, but his hard line "we did nothing wrong" stance got him **** canned. No surprise.
I think it's good for the coach to get fired. Not that I'm agreeing with the school's decision but that school just isn't for this coach who wants to win. After all, he is a coach and he is getting paid to coach. It's the school's fault for having a craptacular opponent on the schedule. Never mind the small school size, they had "learning disabilities". If the school wants to act all "holy" it should forgo sports or any type of competition at all. The losing school should hire that coach. He seems to know what he's doing. It doesn't matter if they are full court pressing and jacking up 3's the first minute of the game or the last minute of the game. Basketball is basketball, you play the full game even in blow outs. Don't even bother creating a team if you aren't even going to practice for the games. They have "learning disabilities". It doesn't mean they are r****ded. Really smart people have learning disabilities, it doesn't mean they have the lazy syndrome. You don't want to be the only school in the season that get's scored on by these losers (of basketball, not life). The only thing the school is teaching those kids by firing their coach is to play down to their opponents. Yeah, you're going to be real successful in life doing that. /rant
