Coach Fired For Running Up Score

[seireikhaan]

A high school girl's Basketball coach was fired for running up the score one hundred to zero.

The coach of the girls basketball team at the Covenant School has been fired after recently winning a game by a score of 100-0.

Micah Grimes was dismissed by the school on Sunday, the same day he posted a public comment saying he would not apologize for the team’s lopsided win over Dallas Academy on January 13.

Personally, I'm glad the guy was fired. Absolutely no class whatsoever. I realize you want your team to compete, but there needs to be a sense of honor in sports, particularly on the high school level.

EDIT: Even more disgraceful is that the losing school is primarily concerned with aiding students with learning disabilities. Second Link

The game took place Jan. 13, on the road, against The Covenant School. Civello didn't expect his girls to win. He never really does. His girls haven't won a game in his four seasons at the White Rock Lake-area school, renowned for its work with students with a variety of learning problems. In most games, they haven't come close.

[Proletariat]

I had 5 large on the Dallas Academy getting 99 points. What bums!

[Strike For The South]

Women, playing sports?

[Gregoshi]

Women, playing sports?

Strike, shouldn't you be writting your song "It's Freezing Outside And I Ain't Got No Money For The IHOP All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Special Blues"?


Is it "pick on SFTS" Day?

Yeah, I know, "Don't you have a stupid pun to post somewhere else?" <Gregoshi crawls back to his cell at the punitentiary>

[Strike For The South]

Strike, shouldn't you be writting your song "It's Freezing Outside And I Ain't Got No Money For The IHOP All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Special Blues"?


Is it "pick on SFTS" Day?

Yeah, I know, "Don't you have a stupid pun to post somewhere else?" <Gregoshi crawls back to his cell at the punitentiary>

Hear the lonesome whiperwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
Im so lonesome I could cry

Ive never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That means hes lost the will to live
Im so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
Im so lonesome I could cry

[CBR]

What was the winning team/coach supposed to do? A coach is fired because his team is too good, can't see the logic in that.


CBR

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Strike:

Been nice knowing you. Laughing at women immediately after a Proletariat post? Okay, 10 out of 10 for courage, but minus several million points for good thinking!

[Ronin]

this doesn´t make any sense.

if the idea is that the losing team couldn´t compete fairly....well...then they shouldn´t be competing in the first place....that is not the fault of the winning team's coach.

[Proletariat]

Wasn't there also a little league pitcher who was disallowed from his league because he was pitching too well?

edit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_121346.html

Here's the story. Apparently the other 9 year olds were scared of the 40 mph high heat. Sounds like there was some overzealous sports-parents politics involved.

[Strike For The South]

PC meida run amok I TELL YOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMk5sMHj58I

[LittleGrizzly]

Whats he supposed to do stop the game if one side keeps scoring or start not counting the winning teams points... ?

[Proletariat]

Ok, actually having read it now, I agree with every word of Khaan's. This guy was a total dick and it's really nothing like the little leaguer story.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Whats he supposed to do stop the game if one side keeps scoring or start not counting the winning teams points... ?

He could instruct his team to allow the shot clock to run out without his team taking a shot. Grinding an obviously over-matched opponent into the hardwood floor shows a lack of integrity, good sportsmanship, and class. He is unfit to be a teacher of children if that's his style.
The league should drop the Dallas Academy to a lower division to better match their skill level.

[Crazed Rabbit]

There's a difference between playing to win and beating the snot out of an inferior team when you have already won by a mile.

For example; I don't hate Pete Carroll despite the record beating his team laid on my college's team - because he put in his second and third string players and it was obvious that after a while he wasn't trying to get more points.

But this guy runs up the score on purpose against a partially disabled team and refuses to apologize.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Eh, I've played on teams that never one a game and teams that won almost every game. When you win most games you hate to lose but when you always lose you really don't care. If I was on the team that lost 100-0 I could care less. I doubt it was the players that were embarrassed.

[Adrian II]

This guy was a total dick

That's funny, nowhere does it say that he is a private detective.. Anyway, I agree with the lady's sentiment that this gentlemen deserves a kick up his private eye.

[rasoforos]

What should he do? Ask them to play bad on purpose? Is that honourable?

The other team are playing to prove that despite their problems they are there to fight. They do not need pity. They need sympathy and encouragement. They are normal people.

How do you think they will feel if they are told that other teams are practically asked to play badly against them?

One day they might win or the might not. If they do it is 100% vital that they know they did it themselves and not because they other team played to lose.

[lenin96]

What should he do? Ask them to play bad on purpose? Is that honourable?

The other team are playing to prove that despite their problems they are there to fight. They do not need pity. They need sympathy and encouragement. They are normal people.

How do you think they will feel if they are told that other teams are practically asked to play badly against them?

One day they might win or the might not. If they do it is 100% vital that they know they did it themselves and not because they other team played to lose.

I completely agree.

[Husar]

I heard certain people don't like it when you go easy on them just because you are better since they feel degraded that way.
Then again some people are hypocrats and others can't set up a decent league...

Myself, I usually ended up in the girls' teams along with some other guys in highschool, well there are pros and cons about that and team sports aren't really my thing anyway, but I survived that and it's better to play on your level than just stand around while the pros play around, like i said, some people can't set up a decent league...

[HoreTore]

1. I will never, ever understand the nonsense of the US sports system for junior players... I honestly can't see why anyone would care so much about something so irrelevant.
2. I'm not sure what the case here.... What does "running up the score" mean? Cheating? Did he play himself, or what?

[Don Corleone]

There's a world of difference between playing to win and totally humiliating another team. Covenant had a 90-0 lead and was taking 3-pointers late in the game. Playing against handicapped opponents from Dallas Academy. Does that sound like sportsmanship?

I don't think anybody has a problem with the team winning, and handily at that. But there's a not so fine line between playing to win, and playing to rub somebody's nose in it. It's pretty clear that the Covenant team was doing the latter, and when the coach continues to defend his actions in that regard, even after the excitement has waned, the school has a right to replace him with somebody who better represents their values.

Don't they have the moral that there's more important things than winning in Europe?

[Tribesman]

Don't they have the moral that there's more important things than winning in Europe?

Well we had that special olympics come to Ireland a few years ago , and the moral with it is that everones a winner ...but the bookmakers don't accept that view .

[Kralizec]

What a jerk.

[Don Corleone]

Well we had that special olympics come to Ireland a few years ago , and the moral with it is that everones a winner ...but the bookmakers don't accept that view .

[Vladimir]

Too bad. They shouldn't even be in the same league. What's the coach supposed to do? Tell his team not to shoot the ball? They were actually easy on them on the second half. After the first half they were up over 50 points.

[Don Corleone]

Screw 'em. They shouldn't even be in the same league. What's the coach supposed to do? Tell his team not to shoot the ball? They were actually easy on them on the second half. After the first half they were up over 50 points.

How is taking 3-pointers with 2 minutes left going easy on them? I may have misread the article, but weren't their starters playing at the end of the game?

[Vladimir]

How is taking 3-pointers with 2 minutes left going easy on them? I may have misread the article, but weren't their starters playing at the end of the game?

Because they're much harder to hit. What I'm really surprised at is that the lefties aren't criticizing the firing because it was the "Christian" thing to do.

“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened,” the school said in its statement. “This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition. The school and its representatives in no way support or condone the running up of a score against any team in any sport for any reason.”

I thought competitive sports were un-Christian in the first place!

[HoreTore]

There's a world of difference between playing to win and totally humiliating another team. Covenant had a 90-0 lead and was taking 3-pointers late in the game. Playing against handicapped opponents from Dallas Academy. Does that sound like sportsmanship?

Who cares about the score of some irrelevant junior match anyway? What's the difference between being beaten and getting trashed?

The way I see it, this is a win-win. The winning team got some good practice on controlling matches and keeping focus, while the losing team got to know just how bad they are. Add in the fact that the losing team was a bunch of cripples, and they also got to know how it feels to play someone who doesn't treat you special. Win-win-win.


Keep parents out of every sport.

EDIT: I have to admit, I haven't got a clue about barbarianball, but if this:

Because they're much harder to hit.

is true, then it's a good thing. When you've put the score beyond doubt, you can start doing the harder, trickier, magical stuff. Well played. Fire those idiots parents, give the coach and players a medal.

[Don Corleone]

Being neither His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI nor the Reverend Rick Warren, I don't know if I'm qualified to speak for Christianity as a whole. But as a Christian who has spent no small amount of time reading the words of Jesus, I believe I can speak to my own views.

I don't see anything inherently unChristian about competition, in sports or in business. There is a difference however between being competitive and being exploitive. If you view business and sports as inherently exploitive, I suppose I understand your view, but what a limited view of human interaction you appear to have.

Mercy and compassion are not weaknesses, so long as they are moderated by logic and justice.

[Don Corleone]

Who cares about the score of some irrelevant junior match anyway? What's the difference between being beaten and getting trashed?

The way I see it, this is a win-win. The winning team got some good practice on controlling matches and keeping focus, while the losing team got to know just how bad they are. Add in the fact that the losing team was a bunch of cripples, and they also got to know how it feels to play someone who doesn't treat you special. Win-win-win.


Keep parents out of every sport.

Wow. Following your logic, having geeks at carnival sideshows is a good thing, as it offers the underpriveleged a means to earn an honest living, eh?

They said the Dallas Academy players were handicapped, not oblivious to reality. Do you think they didn't know that they were being degraded and laughed at? But it's okay, because at least they got a chance to spend some quality time with 'real kids'?