There is a difference both are sporting events. In an earlier post, I stated putting in a mercy rule to stop a high school game getting out of hand. Both teams want to win and have to play by rules. I think it was in bad taste to win by 150. MERCY Rule!! I guess you don't really care about the young men who play basketball at UCLA or any other team that plays sports, just teenage girls. Call the nfl, nba, ncaa, start a mercy rule IDK.
It's high school girls basketball, bud. It's not like he beat them by some relatively understandable margin -30, 40, 50 points...
Actually, using the logic of many in this thread, a suspension is good for him. It will make him tougher and stronger.
Same here, 3Rex. The funny thing is that in the organization I was part of for 25 years, I was always considered by some to be a "conservative troublemaker." I once went to a meeting and took along a copy of the Wall Street Journal to read during the break. Someone ripped into to me for reading that conservative piece of garbage.
You raise a good point. Why do we separate the genders? The girls should compete on the same level as the boys. If they get the snot beat out of them, it will make them tougher and better able to compete in the real world when they are adults. Why coddle them and give them a "league for girls?" Nobody is going to protect them from the big ol mean boys in the workplace!!!
Gonna go ahead and say that a 159 point win isn't that fine of a line. Go ahead and beat the heck out of em. 70 point win, great job coach. But maybe, just maybe, when you get to 100 points ahead and the other team hasn't score a single field goal, maybe ease up a little more than "HE PUT IN THE SUBS!!!!1!!!!" and "BUT HE TOLD THE OTHER COACH BEFOREHAND THAT HE WAS GOING TO PRESS SO THAT MAKES IT OKAY!!!!1!!1!!!"
If the other team didn't like it they were free to forfeit the game, no?
Saying that shows you don't really understand the point people are making. This is a high school girls basketball game. Of course its a competition and you want to instill important lessons like trying your hardest and giving great effort. But other lessons you might want to instill are humility and good sportsmanship, and that even when you're losing badly, theres something to be said for giving your best effort. Taking pride in your effort despite adversity is a good lesson, too. Forfeiting doesn't accomplish that. Again, high school girls basketball game.
I am not one of these participation guys but I agree about the coach being a jerk. It doesn't help a high schooler work on his interior defense by blocking every shot his grade school brother takes. It should have been very obvious to the winning coach that his team wasn't going to improve their press on that team and 1 quarter should have been enough. Also just don't keep score after halftime. Not sure I agree with suspending the guy, I would much prefer the coaches of teams better than his handle it by throttling his team and attempting to run up the score on him. We were up on a school in jr high 27-0 and we didn't keep score after halftime. It really sucked for me because I had scored 6pts the and was hot from outside. I was deadly fom 12ft which since was downtown to a kid that was supposed to be in 6th grade(went from 5th to 7th)
Actually, I thought of Randle and his mother when I saw this thread. My only comment in relation to that situation is to say that it apparently worked in that case but I don't think his mom should be writing parenting books for other parents!
