when it goes too far.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs...ule-inflames-parental-passions-103325382.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs...ule-inflames-parental-passions-103325382.html
Wow...
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More sad: This, or that I think 3 D1 teams played with mercy rules this weekend?
Out of Louisville, Ohio State and Miami(?) one shortened the 4th quarter to 10 minutes, one had a running clock last 18 minutes or something, and I think the third did as well.
Out of Louisville, Ohio State and Miami(?) one shortened the 4th quarter to 10 minutes, one had a running clock last 18 minutes or something, and I think the third did as well.
good ole California. Only there would they reason than a tough mercy rule would create an even playing field. That state is lost as a whole. There is no bringing it back.
That's what I was thinking.
Do they all get together in a circle and sing songs and thump bongos after the game is over?
Do they all get together in a circle and sing songs and thump bongos after the game is over?
Good Lord....That is ridiculous
I can see the 2020 Rose Bowl now:
Announcer: " Stanford will now be putting in the 3rd string offense, they don't want the fine for winning by too much"
This is retarded
I can see the 2020 Rose Bowl now:
Announcer: " Stanford will now be putting in the 3rd string offense, they don't want the fine for winning by too much"
This is retarded
Sports aren't for everyone
The kids that are winning, that's who. Let the others stick to playing football on their xbox. These kids are 13, they're about to be playing in high school. The kids that have no business playing the sport need to go ahead figure that out in little league before they get put on the field with 17 year old men.
The kids that are winning, that's who. Let the others stick to playing football on their xbox. These kids are 13, they're about to be playing in high school. The kids that have no business playing the sport need to go ahead figure that out in little league before they get put on the field with 17 year old men.
So you can tell at 13 if a kid is going to be a blue chip recruit in 4 years? What NFL team or SEC school do you work as a scout for? I'm sure they pay you very well.
No. I said
That you can tell at 13 whether a kid needs to be playing in high school or not the following year. Nice stretch though.
The teams I scout for generally charge me for admission rather than pay me.
That you can tell at 13 whether a kid needs to be playing in high school or not the following year. Nice stretch though.
The teams I scout for generally charge me for admission rather than pay me.
This doesn't seem that big a deal to me.
It's not high school football. I went to their website and it just looks like a rec league for 7-13 year olds that gives them something active to do and tries to show them that school and community involvement are better choices than what a lot of those kids probably go on to do. It's not exactly a stretch to think that some parents went nuts in that league and started stacking teams trying to win what basically amounts to after school exercise. Think you need to teach a bunch of 7-13 year olds about what it means to win and lose? Don't go picking on after school kids that just want to have fun. Join a real league and challenge yourself.
It's not high school football. I went to their website and it just looks like a rec league for 7-13 year olds that gives them something active to do and tries to show them that school and community involvement are better choices than what a lot of those kids probably go on to do. It's not exactly a stretch to think that some parents went nuts in that league and started stacking teams trying to win what basically amounts to after school exercise. Think you need to teach a bunch of 7-13 year olds about what it means to win and lose? Don't go picking on after school kids that just want to have fun. Join a real league and challenge yourself.
I'm not opposed to mercy rules, but fining or punishing the team seems absurd. Just call the game early.
Sounds like a problem with how the league is set up if it's a regular occurrence to have 35 plus point blowouts. You either have to have a draft at the beginning of the league to keep the teams equal, or you have to go ahead and concede that it will be basically a select league, in which case it will end up being a much smaller league as players that aren't chosen for competitive teams drop out.
No, but I wouldn't let a kid move from little league to high school ball if he can't do simple athletic things like run without tripping over his own feet.
It's not really that hard to see the point I'm making here, and it's not a far fetched point at all. But if you want to go on thinking that I'm proclaiming myself as a top tier talent recruit for the SEC, NFL or NBA then your welcome to think of me as highly as you'd like.
Yes you can USUALLY tell. Go ahead and use the Jordan example again, but in reality you can usually tell who are going to be star athletes by this age if they are involved in the sport. I went to high school with Travis Outlaw, and saw him dunk the ball when he was 11 (he was also 6'6" by then). I could have told you he was a blue chipper right then.
From glancing at the team names, it looks like an organization geared toward small, rural northern Californian towns. I looked up a few and they had populations of 7k, 12k, 10k, and so on. Then Redding had something like 80k. A draft would be impossible because you pretty much have to play for your home town team. What is probably happening is the larger communities are stacking teams and just smoking the smaller ones, so all the kids who were having fun playing football with their friends (but probably suck really bad at it and have dad's coaching that have no clue) are just saying screw it and dropping out of the program.
The fine is the problem with me. Just stop the game if you get up by more than 35 like they do with youth baseball and 10 runs.
The kids are up to 13. There are 7 year olds too. 7 years old is 1st and 2nd grade.
At that age, it does need to be about inclusion, learning the game, and success.
See soccer across the country and how development is completely different than it was even 15 years ago. 3 on 3 to start. 4 on 4 after. Involvement is key. Involvement and development.
See youth hockey- there is a strong movement away from games and towards more practices. Also, games are being played on half the rink to facilitate more touches and involvement.
7 year olds who are destroyed over and again dont have much desire to keep at it.
It is an odd way to go about it.
However, it might be intended to drive those teams out to a more competitive league, which they probably need to do anyway. Stopping the game would kind of suck for the kids who just want to play. I guess you could just stop keeping score at some point, but that's not going to keep teams from the bigger areas loading up teams and stomping a bunch of kids from a Native American reservation or something.I say if you're beating teams by 35 every game you need to find somebody else to play. You're not teaching those kids anything by letting them thump a bunch of kids who suck at sports.
However, it might be intended to drive those teams out to a more competitive league, which they probably need to do anyway. Stopping the game would kind of suck for the kids who just want to play. I guess you could just stop keeping score at some point, but that's not going to keep teams from the bigger areas loading up teams and stomping a bunch of kids from a Native American reservation or something.I say if you're beating teams by 35 every game you need to find somebody else to play. You're not teaching those kids anything by letting them thump a bunch of kids who suck at sports.
Until the insane hyper spending/borrowing blows up, and they can't sell their municipal bonds. They've have entire cities go bankrupt. Japan had the second largest economy in the world, and their markets went insane as well. Their market crashed in the '80s and 25 years later, hasn't recovered to half of what it was.
It can happen to anyone it the insanity goes too far. And California defines "insane."
It can happen to anyone it the insanity goes too far. And California defines "insane."
I knew at 13 I had better get the hell out of the way of some of those guys coming at me, which also told me I didn't need to play , or should I say go out for, football in high school.
Which is really helping out with their multi billion dollar state debt and bankrupt cities isn't it? Where does the US rank? C'mon make me feel better about the state of affairs in the US by telling me where we rank as a world economy
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I agree. Mercy rule means the game's over. That, or you could change it to something like the rules you see in the college all-star games -- after the lead is a certain amount, the trailing team receives every kickoff. That way the leading team could still drive and score after a defensive stop, but if the trailing team scored they'd get the ball back. I help coach Park and Rec sports and we do our best to win once the game's underway, but we're mainly concerned with teaching the games, etc.
And miss your valuable education on the subject? What tha hell eva. I'm dying to know the correlation between the size of an economy and how that makes the populace more intelligent.
It's California for God sakes. What do you expect? Can the San Andreas fault hurry up and cave so all this liberal bulllshit can stop. Ridiculous.
whosyourdawgy ---------------------Maybe a tornado or hurricane will take your sorry *** out. Not all of us are liberals you *** and what does that have to do with dying or suffering in a disaster.
