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Parent: Blowout loss was bullying

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HanSenSE, Oct 22, 2013.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Apparently in Texas both coaches have to agree to go to running clock in the second half when the margin hits 35. Which of course defeats the whole idea of the mercy rule. Badass Coach can say, "had enough yet, pussy?" and of course Helpless Victim Coach says "no."

    None of that shit in Michigan. Once the margin is over 35, it's running time regardless of whether either coach likes it or not. Thank God.
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Starman uses "pussy" but does it while quoting a fictional coach.

    Allowable?

    Only Bodie knows.
     
  3. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    In Georgia and Florida (I think), it's coaches' option in the third quarter but mandatory in the fourth. I don't think it requires both coaches' permission, just the losing coach's request.

    I once covered a game that was 42-0 at halftime, and the losing coach declined the option. After watching his team fall behind 63-0 at some point in the third, he suddenly changed his mind.

    And a running clock in football was nice. A running clock in basketball was a godsend.
     
  4. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    No running clock here in RI, but we don't need it because the RIIL breaks divisions down based on ability and school size (60 percent size, 30 percent record in last eight years, 10 percent is record last two years).
    That does lead to other problems, like when a big city school that was getting stomped in D-II, then D-III, dropped to D-IV and with a student body twice the size of the rest of the schools, runs house for three years before getting moved up.
    There are also plenty of big schools in D-II that don't want to move to D-I because they know they're in for a rough road after a class graduates. You can be volunteer to move up, but football teams rarely do it.
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The mercy rule is shot to shit if it's left up to the whims of EITHER coach: a winning coach hell-bent on running the score over the moon or a pig-headed losing coach who won't admit his team is getting asskicked off the field can both kibosh it.

    It's gotta be automatic. Margin goes over 35.... tick tick tick tick.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Exactly. You can't put that on a coach.
     
  7. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Oh for God's sakes - give me a fucking break.

    If you don't want to get your ass kicked make your program better.
    And the running clock rule sucks because a lot of reserves who work their ass off get cheated out of an opportunity to play valuable minutes in the second half of the game.
     
  8. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Yeah, nothing more valuable than garbage time in a 63-7 game. That's why they have JV.
     
  9. cmlifer

    cmlifer New Member

    Not really. If in garbage time the margin drops below 35 in the second half, the running clock is gone. And then you get to watch scrubs stop the clock on incomplete passes.

    Or the sixth circle of hell.
     
  10. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Not the case in Georgia, at least. Once you go to the running clock, it's on until the end of the game.
     
  11. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Wonder if this complaint is to mask the fact that this father's kid must really suck at football.
     
  12. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    That's up to you.
     
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