Coach Fired For Running Up Score

**Tribesman** · 01-27-2009, 16:01

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 .

**Don Corleone** · 01-27-2009, 16:04

Originally Posted by Tribesman

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** · 01-27-2009, 16:24

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** · 01-27-2009, 16:26

Originally Posted by Vladimir

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** · 01-27-2009, 16:32

Originally Posted by Don Corleone

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.

Originally Posted by article

“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!

**Don Corleone** · 01-27-2009, 16:41

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.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-27-2009, 19:42

Would it be wrong for one team to run up the score in gym class? Because if these kids are taking women's high school basketball too much more seriously than that you'd have the real problem right there.