Coach Fired For Running Up Score

**Proletariat** · 01-27-2009, 02:04

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** · 01-27-2009, 02:10

PC meida run amok I TELL YOU

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

**LittleGrizzly** · 01-27-2009, 02:16

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

**Proletariat** · 01-27-2009, 02:23

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.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-27-2009, 03:57

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** · 01-27-2009, 05:45

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** · 01-27-2009, 09:32

Originally Posted by Proletariat

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** · 01-27-2009, 09:47

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** · 01-27-2009, 10:33

Originally Posted by 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.

I completely agree.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 01-27-2009, 03:56

Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly

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.