HS team wins 100-0, seeks to forfeit game

If the winning girls were laughing it up and mocking the losers, then a forfeit might be appropriate.
It seems like a lot of adults dropped the ball on this one. It should have been stopped. If the winners pressed, etc. to get to 100, that's on the coaches.
And, yes, why is the noncompetitive team playing anyone but JV teams?

 

Wow. What a joke. I've never seen a team lose THAT bad. I've seen a high school team lose as bad as 56-2, but never 100-0!

 

As you have so eloquently put it before, there's the door. Use it.

 

I still don't understand how you don't score one basket. When you are down 59-0 just start jacking it up. What's the worst that could happen. How does a team not score? They must have been god awful and again the other team must have been pressing or something.

 

Don't most high schools and programs have some sort of mercy rule for this? I don't now how it pertains to basketball, but some sort of common sense should have kicked in during halftime.

 

Why does it need to be stopped? What the fuck is the problem with one team kicking the other team's ass?

Jesus.

I just had this argument with the principal at my son's school. It seems Phys. Ed classes are no longer allowed to be competitive contests -- so they play these silly pussified games where every child is a winner.

It seems if you play kickball and one kid is better than another, the other might be psychologically scarred for life and then become a serial killer because he just couldn't get it right in kickball classes.

What the hell are we teaching are kids by doing that? Competition is not a bad thing, every kid has his talents and guess what --- some of the same kids who dominate in gym class are not as good in chemistry classes -- so should we stop having tests and grading kids in other classes?

Should we stop having valedictorians -- oh wait, the local high school had like 30 of them -- as well as like 30 people in the homecoming court -- because, well, we just don't want to hurt people's feelings.

It is a joke.

 

Also, the game exists to teach good life lessons, like teamwork, and to get people some physical activity in the process. Those are the main reason the game exists, not winning.

 

fyi, the dallas academy team has canceled the remainder of its tapps schedule and the covenant coach may be in a little hot water with his school bosses.

 

Welcome to life in TAPPS. You have the usual powerhouses, and you have teams which have no business competing on a varsity level. They are districted together by enrollment size and geography. That's just a fact of life.

It's certainly more magnified in the small TAPPS schools, and nobody knows this better than the coaches. Why the hell is your stud point guard who scored 48 points still in the game with four minutes left?

Beyond classless. It's chickenshit.

 

Then don't keep score and give everyone a trophy and an attaboy even when they fuck up......Oh wait a minute, we already do that in this country too.....

As long as two teams are playing and there is a score being kept and the records of the teams are being kept and there are standings and playoffs -- the primary purpose is to win.

And guess what -- you can learn life's lessons AND still play to win at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive entities -- despite what the psychobabbling idiots would like us to believe.

 

Wrong.

Coach shouldn't be fired for this.

What's he supposed to do, tell his kids to stop playing? And that's assuming, like almost everyone else has in this thread, that the coach had his subs in and wasn't pressing.

 

And so it begins ...