let me pose this question to people who feel beating teams 100-0 is ok. do you think anyone in that gym, whether it be a coach,player,parent,AD whoever...would have complained if the coach took off his press? maybe reverse the ball a couple times before scoring? i would think not.
It seems in every sport and at every level people complain when a team gets blownout and the winning team continues to play regular. So how about we just have a mercy rule so all this can be avoided.
He maybe could of taken off the press which I still don't care about. But why should he ask his team to pass the ball more? I heard a lot of people complaining that they were jacking up 3's. Honestly shooting 3's is better than just going down and getting easy layup after layup. I guess they should of started missing on purpose.
You seriously think that's how you deal with a kid getting blown out... talk about dysfunction? How many different kids have you coached in sports? Some of them you can say, "Well if you don't like it, then change it. Learn more about how to beat them." But not all kids can be handled that way. Some kids take it personally and you have to build them up. Loosing by 100 points is impossible to build up from. Getting them angry during the game might have helped, or maybe these kids can handle losing that badly "because they are used to it". I've coached everything from 5 year olds in soccer to 5th graders in basketball to high school freshman in volleyball and everything in between. I have seen coaches, like you and this guy who ran up the score, yell at kids until they are nearly crying on the court and never learn the joy of the sport because people like you say that they should just suck it up. I have seen parents like you, who tell their 9 year old daughter to ignore the coach who is trying to teach them the correct way to do something in order to "win the game" because the kid has to win or what's the point. I am not a wimp, don't coach wimps, nor do I think a kid should quit or "whine" because they lose. I also don't believe that running up a score on a team that is inferior does anything but make the girls that do it look bad. It doesn't boost their confidence. It doesn't make them better. All it does it make them look like a bunch of disrespectful players. There is no reason to do it. And durvasa... I didn't watch the Dream Team. But if they were running up the score, just for the sake of making the other teams look bad, then yes that makes them just as bad. The good thing about it is that the rest of the world did what I personally would do. They got mad and decided they weren't going to let it happen again. That doesn't make it right.
I'm 20 so I have never coached a day in my life I have just played. But to the rest of your point. I'm very laidback so I wouldn't yell at the players I just wouldn't baby them like you seem to think I would do. I would just try to get them better but I wouldn't yell at them because that is not my personality. But I'm also not one to feel sorry for anyone neither. And the you have seen parents like me comment made no sense. When did I say I would tell my child to ignore what the coach said to try to win? I never said anything like that. You sure do like to put words in my mouth.
As I remember it, they very much enjoyed embarrassing the other teams. They saw it as asserting US superiority over other countries. Right or wrong, we tend to applaud that. It's "patriotism". As for this 100-0 game, I don't think the winning team is obliged to alter their style of play simply because the other team can't handle it. It's not their responsibility to protect the feelings of the girls on the opposing team. The losing team's coach should have stopped the game if his/her girls couldn't handle it.
I apologize shaud. This is just a really hot topic for me and to see people here supporting it with such extreme comments both saddens and angers me. Bottom line, both of these coaches are adults and should have taken care of this before it got to this point. We ask kids to grow up and be good people, but then their role models don't act as responsible adults should. It irritates me and I have had a lot of experience coaching kids of all shapes sizes and athletic levels. I would never do that to someone else's kids because I wouldn't want them to do it to mine. Honestly I see no point in it. None. There is nothing wrong with being competitive and wanting to win. There is something wrong with wanting to totally annihilate your opponent for no reason other than "you can".
I apologize too Hayesfan for some of my comments. I'll just respectfully agree to disagree with you about this one. At least we can agree about cheering for UK
They lost, so what? I understand the coach should not have ran up the score like that, but to get fired over it is outrageous. I don't understand how someone can get fired for doing their job well.
Do you have a job? What do you think your employer would do if you unnecessarily caused NATIONAL (perhaps even worldwide) embarrassment for your company while performing your job on behalf of your company? What would they do, if because of your actions, almost every newspaper and TV report that mentioned your employer did so in a negative light?
anyone know if the coach was a teacher at the school, or just a parent or someone hired by the district since no teacher wanted the job? i'm leaning towards a non-teacher, based off the comments he made which lead to his firing.
He got fired because of what he said on his blog, not what he did at the game according to the school board.
Good enough reason to fire someone, IMO. The coach also said that he doesnt care if he gets fired ( heard form the radio).
These are kids, some of them very likely would quit if they get embarrassed. It's the job of the adults, the educators to create an environment so they won't. Of course they should get better and they can only do that if they stay in the sports. Again it's the job of the adults to try to help them do so. I assume you are maybe 15, 16. If you go next door and beat up a 10 yr. Is it ok because he does not complain? Yes, maybe we should. Some sports do. In the absence of the rule, it's the job of the adults to make it better. We don't need a rule for every single situation in life. If you are an adult, use common sense.
I think some of you are misunderstanding what this guy's job is. It ain't simply to win basketball games, I promise you.
There is no free speech if you are a representative of a school, or a company. If you violate its policy or principals, you can be fired. You should know that.
That is a very good point. The guy actually did not do his job very well. He failed in his teaching of his players. I guarantee you, if this story did not make the press, his players would not have learned anything in winning 100-0. They actually learned the wrong lesson: it's ok to beat up on weaker kids.
