High School Girls lose 100-0

[jmbeck]

See here.

Of course, those on the wrong end of a 100-0 *** whipping are suddenly great winners, and are going to watch a Mavericks' game in Cuban's suite.

I can see calling where the press may have been out of line. But, it's a sport. Your job is to score and keep the other team from scoring. You can't call the game off cause you're kicking someone's ***.

By the way, I'd be more pissed if the team that whipped my team was calling for a forfeit because it was without honor. It's bad enough you beat 'em, it's quite another to treat 'em like they need a telethon.

 

[jmbeck]

See here.

Of course, those on the wrong end of a 100-0 *** whipping are suddenly great winners, and are going to watch a Mavericks' game in Cuban's suite.

I can see calling where the press may have been out of line. But, it's a sport. Your job is to score and keep the other team from scoring. You can't call the game off cause you're kicking someone's ***.

By the way, I'd be more pissed if the team that whipped my team was calling for a forfeit because it was without honor. It's bad enough you beat 'em, it's quite another to treat 'em like they need a telethon.

 

[jmbeck]

See here.

Of course, those on the wrong end of a 100-0 *** whipping are suddenly great winners, and are going to watch a Mavericks' game in Cuban's suite.

I can see calling where the press may have been out of line. But, it's a sport. Your job is to score and keep the other team from scoring. You can't call the game off cause you're kicking someone's ***.

By the way, I'd be more pissed if the team that whipped my team was calling for a forfeit because it was without honor. It's bad enough you beat 'em, it's quite another to treat 'em like they need a telethon.

 

[jmbeck]

See here.

Of course, those on the wrong end of a 100-0 *** whipping are suddenly great winners, and are going to watch a Mavericks' game in Cuban's suite.

I can see calling where the press may have been out of line. But, it's a sport. Your job is to score and keep the other team from scoring. You can't call the game off cause you're kicking someone's ***.

By the way, I'd be more pissed if the team that whipped my team was calling for a forfeit because it was without honor. It's bad enough you beat 'em, it's quite another to treat 'em like they need a telethon.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

Hell, the school they were playing has 8 girls on the team and a whopping 20 girls in the whole highschool. And it's a school that specializes in helping kids with "learning difficulties".

And you do realize they were running a full-court press and jacking 3's until they hit 100 points with about 4 minutes left?

With those things considered, I think it was totally unsportsmanlike and (dare I say it) classless.

 

[dawgstudent]

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[BigMotherTucker]

Against 8 retards = Classless.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

The point is to win. Don't be ashamed when you kick someone's ***. They're the ones who deserve to watch the pro game in the luxury box...

 

[patdog]

Reaching it in a 100-0 game isn't.

 

[NorthernDawg]

"<span id="intelliTXT">Peloza said the coach and other parents praised the Dallas Academy girls afterward for limiting Covenant to 12 points in the fourth quarter."

Talk about a kick to the groin...When I played hockey back in the day we beat a team 26-0, we didn't complement them on making saves at the end of the game...
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[MSUCostanza]

This is one of more disgusting stories I've ever read, however, not totally surprising in today's decaying society. There comes a point where playing to win crosses a line into poor sportsmanship. That line was crossed way before it was 100-0 in this case.

 

[jmbeck]

I think it's more demoralizing and wrong to treat the girls that got beat as such.

They got beat. A game is a game. Calling for a forfeit and making it a story on the WWL calls more attention to it.

Is it unfortunate that the coach kept the full press on and the girls were shooting three's? Yes.

Does acting as though the team beat up on a team full of Jerry's Kids and should be punished fix it? No.

 

[curbmyenthusiasm]

that the school was for those with learning disabilities especiaaly those with dyslexia.

Score: 001-00

Bad joke yes, but couldn't let it go.

 

[davatron]

for it to count as a win?

They could have won 52-0 and put the scrubs in at the second half. For all I know ( didn't read the article) the scrubs were in during the second half and still managed to break the clock.

 

[olddawgfan]

is that the Dallas Academy teammates had a more mature reaction to the whole experience than most of the people posting in this thread. Unlike most of you, they don't dwell on the negative, but the positive they can take from the situation. I don't think you will ever see them whining behind a keyboard about everything and anything.

What do I think should happen the next time the two teams play? Covenant should beat the hell out of them again .. it's only a game and not a life taking experience like some of you are making it out to be.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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[Todd4State]

is why did a team that is capable of scoring 100 on someone like this schedule a school like this in the first place.

The school was faced with- Do we blow the hell out of them? OR do we put in the 3rd string and just play straight up and let them score. To me, either would be insulting.

For example, when we played SELU in football this year, I remember they kicked off to us and Delmon Robinson ran to the 20 and took a knee. Then we just ran the ball up the middle every time with our back-ups in. I thought that was really ****** of us to not give an effort, just as much as it would have been if we had kept our starters in and kept the pedal to the floor and scored 70.

So, in this case, the right thing to do would have been to not play the game at all. There's a reason why high school's and college's are classified. There's a reason why Madison Central doesn't play Madison (cough Jackson) St. Joseph's in football. If I was the commisioner of that league, I would just take the game off of the books and just call it a scrimmage. No win for either school, and no loss.

 

[jmbeck]

...and both in the Dallas area.

I think they probably are in the same classification. Something tells me they can't afford to drive all over Texas for other schools in that association.

Hell, LSU has to play us every year. I'm sure the good Christian folks in Baton Rouge considered forfeiting 2001, 2004, and 2007.

 

[Todd4State]

I had to assume some things, that obviously weren't true.

 

[bulliegolfer]

Hell, the school they were playing has 8 girls on the team and a whopping 20 girls in the whole highschool. And it's a school that specializes in helping kids with "learning difficulties".

And you do realize they were running a full-court press and jacking 3's until they hit 100 points with about 4 minutes left?

With those things considered, I think it was totally unsportsmanlike and (dare I say it) classless.

Hopefully with this story being reported through out the country.....it will embarrass the hell out of the school who won the game.

 

[bulliegolfer]

pretty amazing.

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=904560

 

[o_kwfergy]

N/M

 

[DawgMedic]

If you can't teach your team to score a single point, you are a sorry excuse for a "coach". Get the ball in down low, where you will eventually be fouled and sent to the charity stripe!!! One point isn't that hard to get...

 

[bulliegolfer]

If you can't teach your team to score a single point, you are a sorry excuse for a "coach". Get the ball in down low, where you will eventually be fouled and sent to the charity stripe!!! One point isn't that hard to get...

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[Coach34]

If you can't teach your team to score a single point, you are a sorry excuse for a "coach". Get the ball in down low, where you will eventually be fouled and sent to the charity stripe!!! One point isn't that hard to get...

I once had the privelege of coaching the worst group of Jr High girls I have ever seen. It was early in my career, so they stuck me with them because nobody else wanted to coach them. 8th-9th grade girls went 0-16, my 7th grade bunch went undefeated, 9-0. We were losing 41-0 in the 4th against one of the best teams in south Mississippi. They kept pressing and pressing. I had to put the 7th graders in to even have a chance at scoring. We banked in a 3-ball with 2 mins left.

Its hard for a coach to teach someone thats 14 years old how to dribble, when other teams are teaching presses, press break, rebounding fundmentals, motion offenses....etc...And you have never heard bitching by parents like you do at a private school with a bunch of no-talent girls, especially when you start playing 7th graders ahead of 9th graders.

 

[msudawg12]

pressuring the ball and shooting 3's is shameful, stealing and running the fast break instead of pulling back and running clock. That's ridiculous.

The true shame in it is that not only the coach was a prick, but none of the girls on his team had the decency to pull back themselves. This school obviously breeds a shameful playing style without the tiniest sense of sportsmanship that would be tought at an elementary school level.

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

So a team kicked another teams ***! So what! I don't care if the score was 50-0, 100-0, or 200-0.

What part of that is the "bad" part? The 100? or the 0? Should they have let them score? Or stopped scoring voluntarily?

This is the slippery slope of the "feel-good" stories where a football team lets the opposing mentally challenged running back score a touchdown. While THAT is a nice sentiment, it leads to THIS...uproar over a team of girls with "short attention spans or dyslexia" getting their *** kicked. The only reason people include the "learning differences" tag is because it is going to make people feel bad for the losing team. A "short attention span" is a cheap excuse for lazy kids. And while dyslexia can be a serious, yet treatable, issue, I fail to see why it would render this team unable to play basketball. Unless they practice is scheduled for 3:50 everyday but they all show up at 5:30. I don't feel bad for that girls team. You can't score 2 points? Or even get fouled and make ONE point? Do they have practice? How can a team not score a single point?

There is one thing I know for sure, this is begging for a fark! I'm sure somebody who is active on the fark board could come up with something good. I'm picturing a girl shooting a 3 pointer while the Dallas Academy Short Attention Spanners all knit in the corner.

 

[patdog]

If you can't see why continuing to press and shoot 3s when you're already up by 80 points is wrong, then there's probably not much hope for you. Once you've built a 40 point lead, just play a damn 2-3 zone. If they can score against that, fine. If not, beat them 60-0.

 

[Todd4State]

I don't have a problem "playing the game" and scoring a bunch of points, but if you are on the good side of a rout, there's a tactful way to keep playing.

 

[MSUCostanza]

Seriously.

If you can't see what's wrong with this, you need some help. There is a difference between kicking a team's *** and rubbing it in in an incredible show of poor sportsmanship.

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

scored at least one basket.

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

high school to college to the pros?

I mean, State beat North Alabama by 40+ points earlier this year and nobody gave a damn. State shot a few threes up 30+ points with less than 4 minutes left including a three point attempt with 13 seconds left and a layup with 1 second left! State was up 30+ points and continued to steal the ball and block shots. Is that ok? Or is that within this magical "limit?" I'm sure somebody will come back with "that is a poor comparison."

Hell, there is a video of a interview with one of the girls from the losing team and she is handling this better than you guys are. She said her team is taking this as a chance to learn and grow as a team and knows that the longer they play together the better they'll be. Good for her. If I was the AD of the losing team I'd acknowledge the *** kicking and ask that the game NOT be forfieted. He even said he was proud of the team for not quitting despite the score. Good for them. However, the assistant coach said "we never pay attention to scores..." as if they don't care about points in any game. Well, maybe you should! So, they are trying to play Upward basketball against private school who are playing REAL basketball.

I'll at least grant the argument that those teams had no business playing each other! I'm not arguing that a 100-0 win is GOOD sportsmanship but I'm not going to accuse them of poor sportsmanship. They played how they wanted to played, so what. Karma is a *****.

 

[futaba.79]

A "short attention span" is a cheap excuse for lazy kids.

I hope your child turns out perfect. Heaven help her if she doesn't.

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

That is the answer to all lifes questions.

Too much energy? It must be ADD, take these pills.
Not paying attention to teachers? Must be SASS, take these pills!

 

[MSUCostanza]

actually do have disorders that need to be controlled with meds.

Again, your kid is 9 months old. Let us know if she develops a learning disability, plays basketball, and some ******* is pressing and trapping in the 4th quarter up 90-0 on your kid and see if you still sound like a combination between Michael Savage and Tom Cruise. Your comparison between this situation and State up 40 on North Alabama is the most preposterous, ridiculous thing I have ever read.

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

Trying to score with less than 10 seconds left while up 40? Justify that. I hope nobody ever does that to my child!

I'm sorry, but a short attention span is not a learning disability. It just isn't. We have just gotten to a point now where every habit of every kid has to be explained medically and then most likely treated with pills.

some ******* is pressing and trapping in the 4th quarter up 90-0

When was the coach playing? Or are you calling high school girls "********" for winning a basketball game by a large margin?

 

[patdog]

to a 100-0 game against disabled girls.

Karma is a *****.

WTF does karma have to do with that game? Now THIS is karma. And yeah, I guess it is a *****.

 

[Brutius]

trying to equate a 40 points college loss to a 100-0 high school game? I'm not gonna pile on everyone else has put what I want to say pretty succinctly already. I hope your kid is perfect and never needs any of that dirty medicine stuff the doctors give out, John Travolta.

 

[futaba.79]

develop high blood pressure or diabetes or some other issue that can be controlled by meds, do you plan on just toughing it out? </p>

 

[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

http://www.flightbasketba...-Response-From-Coach.html

We are hardly the "elite basketball powerhouse" that we are described as in the National and local media. Up until 3 years ago, we rarely had a winning season. In fact, during my first year at Covenant four years ago, we experienced one of our worst seasons - a losing record of only 2 wins and 19 losses that sunk to an 82-6 low in a game that forever changed us and how we approached the game of basketball. Two years later we made the first Final Four appearance in the school's history. Like Dallas Academy, Covenant is a small Christian school, which is why we are in the same district. We don't have a home gym so we rent out facilities or gym space in the community so we can practice, and then watch game film at the home of one of the players. We've never had a full roster. Only about 30 high school girls attend Covenant and only 8 of those girls play basketball. During many of the games this year, we played with 6 girls, and sometimes only 5. When players fouled out, we've had to finish the game with 4. But we always finished the game.

After 3 minutes into play, we had already reached a 25-0 lead. Like any rational thinking coach would do, I immediately stopped the full-court press, dropped into a 2-3 zone defense, and started subbing in my 3 bench players. This strategy continued for the rest of the game and allowed the Dallas Academy players to get the ball up the court for a chance to score. The second half started with a score of 59-0. Seeing that we would win by too wide of a margin, running down the clock was the only logical course of action left. Contrary to the articles, there were only a total of four 3-point baskets made; three in the first quarter, and only one in the third quarter. I continued to sub in bench players, play zone defense, and run the clock for the rest of the game.

Although a wide-margin victory is never evidence of compassion, my girls played with honor and integrity and showed respect to Dallas Academy. We honor God, ourselves, and our families when we step on the court to compete. I do no wish to forfeit the game. What kind of example does it set for our children? Do we really want to punish Covenant School girls? Does forfeiting really help Dallas Academy girls? We experienced a blowout almost 4 years ago and it was painful, but it made us who we are today. I believe in the lessons that sports teach us. Competition builds character, and teaches us to value selflessness, hard work, and perseverance. As a coach, I have instilled in my girls these values. So if I lose my job over these statements, I will walk away with my integrity.

Box Scores:

1st
35
2nd
24
3rd
29
4th
12

Any of you change the way you feel about this? They did EXACTLY what some of you said they should have done! They even changed to a 2-3 zone and they weren't sending threes up every time down the court.

Some of you should probably recant your previous statements.