You just contradicted yourself. Maybe those 2 teams should not have placed on the bracket but maybe the schedulers had no choice. Nah, there is no reason to lower yourself to the level of the other guy.
As I said on the previous page, the schools are the same size and play in the same district. They HAD to play each other. But that also means that comparing these teams should be like comparing apples to apples. Sure there are going to be teams that excel and there are going to be the perpetual bottom feeders, but there shouldn't be THAT HUGE of a talent gap between the two schools. It wasn't like it was a small private school going up against a large public school. They were both small private schools. And I highly doubt the Covenant school was recruiting and giving scholarships to girls basketball players. I went to a TAPPS 4A school (still pretty small compared to a public high school) and we only gave one scholarship and that was to a football player.
I don't really blame the coach for his insubordination. I think he worried that his players would see the school's criticism of their victory as a reproach on their character and he was defending their honor. I can respect that he was willing to lose his job for them. I would have still fired him as an administrator though.
That's the point I wanted to make with my statement. I went to a small high school as well, larger than this one probably but small - 82 people in my grad class, and I can tell you even the public schools didn't blow us out in basketball. No one at our school had scholarships either. Which is why I blame the coach of the losing team. Even if they have short attention spans you can still prepare them better than that.
I disagree. I think you can take the coach entirely out of the picture. When you can't score a single point, lose by 100 and are that severely outmatched, it's not the coach's fault. It doesn't matter what the coach says, does, etc. maybe he should be a better coach, anyway, but that would have made little difference in this particular game!
Haha, the Rockets sure have tons of sportsmanship, don't they? BTW, the NBA players are paid professionals and they play at the top level of their sports. They should be able to take a beating, no matter how severe it is. Yet, the losing side doesn't appreciate getting beat badly, and the winning team has a code about not running up the score. Go compare that to HS kids!
Whoever made the decision to fire the man is a **** wimp. If a team can't take a beating then don't show up to the game. It's not my job to help the other team, no I want to eat their children for lunch,breakfast, dinner, and midnight snack. Hopefully he finds a job somewhere else. He shouldn't have to apologize. If a team is mentally or physically disabled they shouldn't be on the same court as normal kids.(if that was the case) If they were not then it should be fair game. Either way this coach shouldn't be fired or have to apologize for running the score up. Yeah he pressed so what. We need to get rid of the cliche play 100% your hardest no matter what the score is since people complain win the winning team does it. I think running up the score is overblown as you can see. The team that gets embarrassed should go home and take the defeat, if they can't then quit playing sports. I don't think anyone's life has changed over a game they got blown out in. I don't think anyone has committed suicide because they got blown out in a game. Smh @ America, Steve Spurrier is rolling in his grave right now.
Using your logic, any kids who are bad at something should just quit?!! Let's say you get some C, D or maybe even F in some classes. Heck, why are we wasting the state and the school's resources to keep you in school? We need to use it for the smart kids. Why don't you just quit and go flip burgers?
I said if you can't take defeat you should just quit. Probably could try to get better too. But you damn sure can't complain about getting your ass whooped in a game. I heard that the other team didn't complain about it so I don't even get why this is a story. Maybe we should have a mercy rule so all this can be avoided.
i'm wondering what everyones reaction would be if this story included that the team getting whooped on started throwing punches and it turned into an all out brawl. i'm thinking that just about any other team and thats the case. it would be interesting to see if the coach continued to press after some of his girls are getting hit in the mouth with elbows?
I'm 99% sure if a team gets blown out 100-0 in basketball, the winning team is probably 10x more physically fit to hand out an azz kicking than the losing team. I doubt team Korea would start a brawl with team USA after handing them a 65 point blowout...
I don't really care about the score. It was the fact they were still full court pressing. Is that really necessary?
thats my biggest question as well. i think everyone can agree, you dont ask your team in a blowout to not try hard. you put in your 3rd string or whatever and ask them to work hard, let them enjoy some playing time, but pressing seems unnecessary.
Coach was a douche for running up the score. However, there's the possibility that he's telling the truth in his email, which makes him seem less of an asshat. Firing him is excessive. Except that he pretty much guaranteed it would happen by his comments and didn't leave the school much of a choice. Which also raises the question what kind of guy would show so little sense and get himself fired. Conclusion? Coach might just be a dumbass.
There could be other reasons for the firing, for example, his character; however, the losing team has no business in that league in the first place. The person who organized for the the two teams to play should be fired instead.You can never truly understand a situation from the outside.
lol @ me not being a good person just because I feel someone who complains about getting the score ran up on should quit. If you can't take a loss then playing sports is not for you. Yeah I'm not a good person but every morning I wake my ass up and volunteer at the homeless shelter every ****ing week for the last 8 months.
if you think that a kid deserves to lose that badly and if they are that bad then they should just quit... you need to re-evaluate. What would you say if your daughter was on the losing team? Sorry honey you just suck... I think you should try something else like... no sports. How does sitting on your arse and playing video games sound? give me a freaking break.
Was there any criticism towards the original Dream Team when they were blowing teams out? Did they let up after half time when they had 40+ point leads? If we're going to glorify that level of "sportsmanship" for professionals in the Olympics, then why should we vilify a high school team that does the same thing? In my view, the winning team has nothing to apologize for. We're talking about high school students, not little kids.
Lol what you continue to say has nothing to do with what I said. Absolutely nothing. If my daughter or son played for a team that just got blown out, and they came to me whining about it. I would simply tell them to suck it up and get better so they can prevent this from happening. My whole point was the running up the score thing is overblown. When I was young and we had a game we got blown out I didn't think twice about it after it was over. I didn't whine or complain about it. I have never seen anyone seriously depressed because their team got blown out. If my opinion on this subject makes me not a good person of ****ing well. I hope you don't have kids neither, because they sure as hell would grow up to be wimps when it comes to sports and that is the problem with our generation these days. College coaches, and the Pros whine about this. Simple if you don't want to get blown out Play better, if you do get blown out deal with it and stop crying.
