Texas Girls Team was Game 100-0...and has to Apologize!

[200lbhockeyplayer]

I completely disagree here. This is amateur sports, and "showing people up" should be reserved for overpaid football and basketball clowns.

Beating a team 100-0 is completely uncalled for, and frankly the coach should be canned.

I played hockey for almost 30 years and remember a few instances were we clearly overmatched the opposing team and our coach set up restrictions on how/when we could score. For example, no shot until three passes had been made inside the blue line, etc. This simple restriction was to teach us that you don't need to rub someone's face in it just because you are better.

When I was a senior in high school, the first round of the state championships (we were ranked #1), and obviously, the first game was going to be easy. It was, yet before the game, the opposing team was throwing around a few trashy comments and my coach made the decision for us to run it up. And we did. The final score was 36-0...again, this is hockey I am talking about, the opposing team had one shot on net all game and it was from an icing attempt.

Now I do indeed believe that all youth sports should keep score and teach kids how to be good winners and good losers, but frankly, beating a team 100-0 is no better than a grown man fighting a 5-year-old.

 

[Guest]

This falls into the same category as the morons that had dodge ball banned from schools.

Dodge ball was the best thing about PE in school.

 

[Wes]

I completely disagree here. This is amateur sports, and "showing people up" should be reserved for overpaid football and basketball clowns.

Beating a team 100-0 is completely uncalled for, and frankly the coach should be canned.

I played hockey for almost 30 years and remember a few instances were we clearly overmatched the opposing team and our coach set up restrictions on how/when we could score. For example, no shot until three passes had been made inside the blue line, etc. This simple restriction was to teach us that you don't need to rub someone's face in it just because you are better.

When I was a senior in high school, the first round of the state championships (we were ranked #1), and obviously, the first game was going to be easy. It was, yet before the game, the opposing team was throwing around a few trashy comments and my coach made the decision for us to run it up. And we did. The final score was 36-0...again, this is hockey I am talking about, the opposing team had one shot on net all game and it was from an icing attempt.

Now I do indeed believe that all youth sports should keep score and teach kids how to be good winners and good losers, but frankly, beating a team 100-0 is no better than a grown man fighting a 5-year-old.

Such a thing should never take place or be scheduled - not have silly rules placed on it. I take more issue with the scheduler who put these two teams together. Athletes are trained to do their best. I would guess that the winning team put their backups in and still stomped the losing team. Certainly you don't want to be running a full court press and physically punishing the other team but you have to keep playing.

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

Some of the responses in this thread scream, "Well I got picked on as a kid, so damn right, let these losers learn like I had to learn."

 

[J.O.]

in high school baseball, if we were better, we'd play hard until we were up by the "slaughter rule," then put in the non-starters. that was the way we let up, and the game would then end after 5 innings for slaughter. baseball is harder to let up, because you don't want to have your team purposely miss the ball, but in a game like high school basketball, where there is normally no shot clock, why not just have the team hold the ball for a minute each time, find a bad shot and take it? and on defense, just let up a lot, let the team have an open shot. just my two pennies

their coach should feel ashamed

 

[Pete14Rose]

The game should have been called after a certain point and time. The team should not be punished or have to apologize for being better.


I could see the two coaches coming together and calling the game for the benefit of the kids...perhaps. But that didn't happen. All parties should move on and learn from the experience.

 

[justinmandawg]

I bet the apology took forever since the girls had short attention spans.


We have some
exuse me I'm trying to..
ladies we have..
come on...
ok. we are here
please set back down so
we are...
seriously this is ridiculous
we're sor
COME ON SET DOWN
we're trying to

well you get the point

~i almost forgot to laugh~
not funny in the least, kind of a dick thing to say

Why not laugh at the truth?

 

[promodeltodd]

There has been a 45 second shot clock in this county for 21 years, I would thing most high schools have one across the country.

As far as scheduling it, the school has just as much right to play the game as any one else. However, the winning coach should have forced the team to start passing the ball, perhaps passing to each player before shooting, having a certain number of passes before a shot can be taken, or let there be 10 second o the shot clock before running a play. Any of these have been used locally at times when one team is in an obvious mis match.

 

[Jays_Cards]

sports are about competing..You dont want to compete, dont play. All this PC nonsense is exactly what is wrong with our country.

 

[justinmandawg]

Who here was at the game and saw how things went down?

 

[ChasHawk]

responses I've read so far show tons of insensitivity and anyone who really thinks there should be pride taken in beating a team 100-0, dont know what sportsmanship is about.


Before people jump all over me, I'm disgusted by how the rules have changed for small children

Nobody said anything about taking pride in it. We're saying it's BS that they had to apologize.

And...for everyone who hasn't actually read the article, these aren't little 10 yr old downs kids playing against a WNBA team. This was a HIGH SCHOOL GAME, and the girls on the other team had ADHD and learning disabilities. They weren't special ed students.

Part of high school is to prepare you for life in the real world, and sometimes, oftentimes in the real world, you get your ass handed to you and nobody is going to apologize to you for it.

 

[Wes]

There has been a 45 second shot clock in this county for 21 years, I would thing most high schools have one across the country.

As far as scheduling it, the school has just as much right to play the game as any one else. However, the winning coach should have forced the team to start passing the ball, perhaps passing to each player before shooting, having a certain number of passes before a shot can be taken, or let there be 10 second o the shot clock before running a play. Any of these have been used locally at times when one team is in an obvious mis match.

Assuming this was a nonconference game there's absolutely no reason a basketball powerhouse should schedule a patsie - this isn't NCAA D1 football.

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

sports are about competing..You dont want to compete, dont play. All this PC nonsense is exactly what is wrong with our country.

You are a class act.

Treating people like people isn't "PC", it's about not belittling someone. 100-0 isn't about competing, it's about being a heartless tool.

Clearly there was no competition, so why rub someone's face in it? By the way, have you ever played anything competitively? And I don't mean riding the bench.

 

[phillyfan0417]

sports are about competing..You dont want to compete, dont play. All this PC nonsense is exactly what is wrong with our country.

This has nothing to do with PC, this has to do with sportsmanship. Every sport has some unwritten rules in it about doing this type of stuff. Dont steal bases in late innings when you're up by alot, dont pass in the last few minutes if you're up by a few touchdowns.

 

[TNP777]

Lopsided or not, mismatch or not, whether the game should have even been scheduled or called after a certain score/time or not, part of me is thinking that as the game wound down, the winning team saw a chance to score 100 while shutting out the other team and turned on the jets at both ends of the court.

 

[Pete14Rose]

sports are about competing..You dont want to compete, dont play. All this PC nonsense is exactly what is wrong with our country.

Thanked.

 

[IndyManning18]

The 24 second shot clock was 22 seconds too long for them.

:lol:

Aw, man, we got kill.......hey look at that cloud!

:lol: :lol:

I bet the apology took forever since the girls had short attention spans.

We have some
exuse me I'm trying to..
ladies we have..
come on...
ok. we are here
please set back down so
we are...
seriously this is ridiculous
we're sor
COME ON SET DOWN
we're trying to

well you get the point

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Whoever can't find the humor here needs to get........Hey look, something shiny!!

 

[muskiesfan]

Some of the responses in this thread scream, "Well I got picked on as a kid, so damn right, let these losers learn like I had to learn."

This logic gives me a headache. I don't think the winning team should have to apologize. I wasn't picked on or bullied so that has absolutely nothing to do with my thinking.

There should be a mercy rule for instances like this. Also, if the other school should consider not fielding a team if they cannot compete. If they still want to have a team and continuing playing, then they have to understand that things like this can happen.

All of the information was not provided so we don't know if the other team let up or not. Either way, I don't think it should matter. If you have a team and you put them out there to compete, you have to take the good with the bad. That's just a part of life whether you're a young child, a high school kid, or an adult.

I don't see how the winning team did anything wrong. No reason for the to apologize whatsoever.



Joe

 

[Pete14Rose]

Some of the responses in this thread scream, "Well I got picked on as a kid, so damn right, let these losers learn like I had to learn."

This logic gives me a headache. I don't think the winning team should have to apologize. I wasn't picked on or bullied so that has absolutely nothing to do with my thinking.

There should be a mercy rule for instances like this. Also, if the other school should consider not fielding a team if they cannot compete. If they still want to have a team and continuing playing, then they have to understand that things like this can happen.

All of the information was not provided so we don't know if the other team let up or not. Either way, I don't think it should matter. If you have a team and you put them out there to compete, you have to take the good with the bad. That's just a part of life whether you're a young child, a high school kid, or an adult.

I don't see how the winning team did anything wrong. No reason for the to apologize whatsoever.



Joe

Best response to this entire thread. Spot on.

 

[phillyfan0417]

responses I've read so far show tons of insensitivity and anyone who really thinks there should be pride taken in beating a team 100-0, dont know what sportsmanship is about.


Before people jump all over me, I'm disgusted by how the rules have changed for small children

Nobody said anything about taking pride in it. We're saying it's BS that they had to apologize.

And...for everyone who hasn't actually read the article, these aren't little 10 yr old downs kids playing against a WNBA team. This was a HIGH SCHOOL GAME, and the girls on the other team had ADHD and learning disabilities. They weren't special ed students.

Part of high school is to prepare you for life in the real world, and sometimes, oftentimes in the real world, you get your ass handed to you and nobody is going to apologize to you for it.

Like I said, go learn a little about what a learning difference is and how it can effect you physically.


Also, I dont see anywhere in that article that it says anyone was forced to apologize, if it were me, i'd probably be a little embarrassed if my coach allowed that to happen.