Worst athletic department in the country?

Racist.

 

I've never covered an entire school that was that awful, but I've covered some pretty bad teams before. Some of them can be quite enjoyable, depending on the coach. At one school, I got to a game two hours early and watched the home team's pregame shoot around. The team was awful, and the coaches knew it. Upon seeing me, one of the assistants asked if there wasn't a rec bowling league match that my paper could cover instead. When you're a high school coach begging the newspaper not to cover you, it's pretty bad.

 

good teams, poorly run athletic department and SID department is, FAMU.

But I suppose that's racist also.

 

I had one school that was bad across the board about seven years ago. It went over two seasons without winning a single varsity game.

 

Don't know if this qualifies, but the story is worth telling. A couple of years ago, McComb went over to Port Gibson for a football game, a region game, mind you. Everyone was there: players, coaches, fans, bands ... and no referees. Turns out Port Gibson somehow forgot to arrange for the refs. FOR A REGION FOOTBALL GAME!

We also had another situation where a local team had to postpone a region baseball game because the other team never showed. Seems they couldn't find anyone to drive the bus. The host team initially wanted a forfeit, but the association ended up making them replay it at a later date. I wrote a strongly-worded column about that one that resulted in a nasty conversation with the school superintendant. He said it put his kids up for ridicule, and I told him, no, it put him and his school district up for ridicule.

 

This has been covered before, and I remember the column being very good. Too bad it's in the pay-only archive now.

Wichita West, 3-147 for a school year in its varsity sports.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/56687/

 

It's interesting to me that this thread came along at about the same I was lamenting the suckiness of my daughter's high school teams.
I believe you measure a team's success in how it does in league because most of the teams should be comparable.
Football team, 1-9 last season, including 1-4 in league with the victory coming against its city archrival which was 0-10. This season 0-5 in league and lost to the archrival which brought a 20-game losing streak into the game. Boys basketball will be 0-10 for the second consecutive season when it loses the season finale tonight.

 

Welcome to Birmingham City Schools...

 

I guess you forgot to add the sarcasm font because you don't know the color of my skin, my background or my heritage, newbie.

In my many years as a sports reporter, I have dealt with almost every SWAC school and have yet to find one sports information department with quality media guides (some never had any), updated stats and rosters on its web site and reliable sports information contacts.

My frustration with SWAC schools has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with being horrible at doing their job to provide quality and updated information to the media.

Carry on.

 

at what point in life did you decide you wanted to be a hall monitor? did you grow up in a single-parent family?