Basketball team wins 100-0

[Evel KMego]

How bad do you think I feel? I lost $100.00 bucks on the game! Damn that 101 points spread

[theantiquetiger]

How bad do you think I feel? I lost $100.00 bucks on the game! Damn that 101 points spread

[cockyhoskins]

To me, it's just as insulting that they want to forfeit the game now. First you beat the snot out of them and then you take "pity" on them and forfeit the game. That's just rubbing salt in the wound IMO.

[Zemo]

At first, I found great humor in this story.

Then, I found respect for the zero-scoring team. They kept playing and didn't give up at halftime. They easily could have packed it in and went home. They stayed and fought, however badly, against a far superior opponent. There is far more to be learned from a character standpoint getting your ***** handed to you than kicking *****.

Despite not winning a game in four years, they continue to compete and field a team. That shows character, honor and strength. I salute the Dallas Academy and their team. They may be the worst team in recorded history of girl's B-ball, but they finish their fights.

Scott

Excellent post. I also think that most functional impaired people don't want to be treated any different.


I aslo believe Toys could score on an nba team during the course of a game.

[toys2cool]

I aslo believe Toys could score on an nba team during the course of a game.

ah woo hoo! thanx bro

[Adam West]

I read this story and to me it is just poor sportsmanship on the part of the winning team.

I don't really care if one team has some type of handicap or not....these are amateur players.

I have been coaching youth soccer going on 5 or 6 years now. I have been on both sides. I have coached teams who could have beaten teams 25 or 30 to zero. As an adult, I want the kids to play as hard as they can but part of being a good sport is winning with dignity which wasn't done in this case. If I have a team fielded and we are winning 5 or 6 to zero...I immediately switch gears and will have the weakest players play as forwards. If another goal gets scored, I will tell the kids they need to pass the ball 3 times amongst themselves before shooting. Again if they continue to score, I will quietly pull players off the field so that we are playing one, two, sometimes three players down or I will tell them they can play keep away but no shooting at the goal. I have learned that kids (yes these are kids), will become so demoralized after a certain point that they give up and the goals or in this case baskets become very easy to make.

Now that my daughter is playing at a competitive club level I have been on the other side. I have seen teams that are far superior to hers, they score 5 goals and play keep away. I commend the coach of the other team for doing that. We also played a team that really wasn't very good but our coach insisted that every girl on our team play goalie no matter how bad they were. In this particular game, the two worst players at goalie played the game and the coach felt it was necessary to score 10 goals on us without any let up whatsoever. I didn't walk away from the game as a parent thinking that the team was great. I thought what poor sports they were that day. Clearly, they saw our goalies were not strong and decided they were going to take it out on us and would have run the score to 20 or 30 if they could.

This was done for no other reason than to boost the ego of the winning coach plain and simple who showed no mercy for the other team. My guess is that the apology only came when someone other than the coach....possibly the principal was horrified at what happened.

[txteach]

The game should have been called way before half time. Where were the adults (parents, coaches, officials) when this was happening? To run up the score and throughly embarrass another team is just heartless. I remember fielding a far better team than my competition when coaching and having a lead of 47-0 in the third quarter. I told my running back to fall when touched, he asked why. I told him " To give the other team some dignity". The game was no longer about winning, it was about not humiliating the other team. The game ended 47-20 because my 7th graders acted like true men and human beings that day.

[toys2cool]

The game should have been called way before half time. Where were the adults (parents, coaches, officials) when this was happening? To run up the score and throughly embarrass another team is just heartless. I remember fielding a far better team than my competition when coaching and having a lead of 47-0 in the third quarter. I told my running back to fall when touched, he asked why. I told him " To give the other team some dignity". The game was no longer about winning, it was about not humiliating the other team. The game ended 47-20 because my 7th graders acted like true men and human beings that day.

exactly,that's what I've been trying to say about the adults not stopping it .Great post

[Adam West]

I just read that the coach was fired for refusing to apologize.

The game wasn't stopped because there wasn't a mercy rule. I remember when my son played baseball in 1st grade and 2nd, there was a mercy rule...you could only score so many runs an inning and if the score differential was a certain number (can't remember) then the game ended after the 5th inning I think.

There is no mercy rule in soccer. It typically is a low scoring game to begin with but like I said, there have been games when I could have won 30-0 (literally score at will). As a coach, I wanted the kids to learn that winning with grace not only means being humble in your win but also allowing the other team to lose with dignity. It sounded like the parents of the team who won were more interested in hitting the 100 point mark than caring about what they were doing to the other team. I have watched this play out before on the little league fields and it is unfortunate. It is no wonder that most kids will drop out of playing sports altogether by the time they are 14...it isn't fun for them anymore.

As a coach, we need to be the ones to stop the run up...not the parents, not the ref, or kids. You can keep the kids challenged without humiliating the other team. Let the weakest players play most of the game and explain to the starters that they are not getting as much playing time because you want to give the other kids a chance and that you will make it up to them in a future game. If the game still gets out of control, tell your kids that they need to pass the ball 3 or 4 times before shooting and if worse comes to worst, I would tell them they are only allowed to shoot the ball with less than 5 seconds on the shot clock and from 5 or 6 feet outside the 3 point arc. It will keep the winning team challenged and allow them to keep playing at their highest level but also allowing the other team to lose with dignity and it's an important lesson to teach. I don't know of anyone who has ever played sports seriously who has not experienced a completely humiliating defeat. I still remember playing a basketball game ina a league when I was about 9 or 10 and we lost the game 50-4 or something like that. I remember scoring the only two baskets but to this day I still remember feeling the humiliation of getting pummelled by a team that was 10 times better than us and showed absolutely no mercy.