Coach Fired For Running Up Score

**Don Corleone** · 01-27-2009, 16:44

Originally Posted by HoreTore

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'?

**HoreTore** · 01-27-2009, 16:49

Originally Posted by Don Corleone

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'?

Uhm..... What on earth is degrading about getting a good, honest trashing? Who cares about the score?

I mean, unless the coach and players were pointing and laughing, I see little wrong with it...

**Rhyfelwyr** · 01-27-2009, 17:01

There was absolutedly no need to run up such a score. A big

to the players, the league organisers, and especially the coach.

We need to stop trying to treat disabled people as equal when they are clearly not. Why are a disabled team in the same league as normal schools?

**ajaxfetish** · 01-27-2009, 18:15

Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

We need to stop trying to treat disabled people as equal when they are clearly not. Why are a disabled team in the same league as normal schools?

I'm not sure on the specifics of how the league operates, but it's not like the Dallas Academy sucks at sports in general. According to the second article, the two schools' boys teams played shortly afterwards and Dallas won 50-38. But while their school has about 120 boys, they've got only about 20 girls. The school may be assigned to the division it's in based on its boys teams, without consideration taken that its girls teams belong at a different level. That's probably one of the first things that needs to change.

Ajax

**Proletariat** · 01-27-2009, 18:41

I guess you guy's really don't get barbarianball. There's a shot clock in hoops. When you're up 80 on another team, the normal decent thing to do would be to run the shot clock out each possession which would run the game out. No one's saying they were supposed to coddle the losers.

**HoreTore** · 01-27-2009, 19:34

Originally Posted by Proletariat

I guess you guy's really don't get barbarianball.

Indeed I really do not.

Originally Posted by Proletariat

There's a shot clock in hoops. When you're up 80 on another team, the normal decent thing to do would be to run the shot clock out each possession which would run the game out. No one's saying they were supposed to coddle the losers.

Don't get me wrong. I've read this part 4 times now. I really, really, really can't understand what a word of it....

And I still haven't got an answer to my first question, what "running up the score" means...

**LittleGrizzly** · 01-27-2009, 19:40

Don't get me wrong. I've read this part 4 times now. I really, really, really can't understand what a word of it....

I think basically once your in the opposing teams half you only have a certain amount of time to try and score, after that time i think possession switches back over... just running out a clock sounds dreadfully boring though...

Im unsure on this issue... on the hand is not nice to get slaughtered... on the other hand it would be slightly patronising if the whole team starting using thier left hand for example..

**CBR** · 01-27-2009, 19:41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_up_the_score

In sports in the United States, "running up the score" occurs when a team continues to play in such a way as to score additional points after the outcome of the game is no longer in question and the team is assured of winning.

.........

The term and concept are not common elsewhere in the world

Absurd and yet at the same time ridiculous

So seems like an American thing. No wonder we Euro weenies have never heard of such a thing.

CBR

**Strike For The South** · 01-27-2009, 20:29

Originally Posted by Proletariat

I guess you guy's really don't get barbarianball. There's a shot clock in hoops. When you're up 80 on another team, the normal decent thing to do would be to run the shot clock out each possession which would run the game out. No one's saying they were supposed to coddle the losers.

There is no shot clock in Texas high school BASKETBALL at any level.

**HoreTore** · 01-27-2009, 20:34

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

There is no shot clock in Texas high school BARBARIANBALL at any level.

There, fixed it for ya

**Husar** · 01-27-2009, 17:03

I agree with HoreTore, if they didn't want to get trashed like that, they should have found another team to play against, you can't honestly say you don't want to be treated different because you're disabled (i.e. not play in a league for the disabled only) and then complain that you got trashed by a team of able bodied people, sometimes you have to accept reality (and play with the girls, for example, or get trashed).

**HoreTore** · 01-27-2009, 17:07

Originally Posted by Husar

I agree with HoreTore, if they didn't want to get trashed like that, they should have found another team to play against, you can't honestly say you don't want to be treated different because you're disabled (i.e. not play in a league for the disabled only) and then complain that you got trashed by a team of able bodied people, sometimes you have to accept reality (and play with the girls, for example, or get trashed).

Blame the incompetent league organizers, if you want someone to blame. The winning team just did what they wanted, and there's nothing wrong with that. Why should they be forced to waste an hour of their life to cater to the league organizers need to be incompetent? Why shouldn't they do something meaningful instead?

They made the best of a bad situation - kudos to them for that.

Sports teams exist to win the senior championships. Youth setups are there to create new players to reach that goal.