100-0 score leads to coach being fired

[RCAJUN90]

What's your take on this. 100-0!
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[CajunAmos]

What's your take on this. 100-0!
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We don't need classless coaches for any sports.

[ULtimateCajun]

I'm a big supporter of the if you don't want the score run up, then play better defense, philosophy. BUT this story is pretty classless. Your team is up 59-0 at half and you full court press and shoot threes in the second half. If i were the team that lost I wouldn't want them to forfeit the game. That's almost more of a slap in the face than the actual game score. There is no reason for a score to get that out of hand. When I played sports and the team I was on would be clearly in control of the game, as a player you kind of know when it's time to put it in cruise control. Pretty sad.

[jllanclos]

"i didn't know it was our job to stop our offense. I thought it was the other team's job." - Steve Spurrier

But yes. Kind of claspless.
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[RCAJUN90]

Who changed the title? It was a joke!

I was curious to see how people felt about it. You would think they would let the other team get a mercy goal or there would be a mercy rule. I could see using the game as a practice but heck you let the other kids score a few buckets.

[Hammer58]

In the original story I read it stated that the losing team had special needs students. Now I know in today's society the trm "special needs" has been stretched to include a lot of things. But in this case I think it might really apply. On ESPN 1420 this morning Foote mentioned that two of the kids onthe losing team were autistic. IT sounds like this was a game that should never have been scheduled. But since it was you would think the winning coach would have called the dogs off once it was obvious (which apparently must have been right at tip off) that he had the upper hand.

Contrast this guy's actions with those of the football coach who, with the game well in hand in his favor, allowed the mentally handicapped kid (team manager dressing for the final game) on the other team to score. The basketball coach could learn something from that football coach.

[Boomer]

I remember my daughter's days at VC and we were beating Erath 50-2 at half and obviously the coach was substituting pretty much everybody at that point---the problem was keeping the stats up on our star players--- at -district meetings they would put up their kids ' stats who never left a game and want them to be placed ahead of our kids!!!!!

[RCAJUN90]

_ In the original story I read it stated that the losing team had special needs students. Now I know in today's society the trm "special needs" has been stretched to include a lot of things. But in this case I think it might really apply. On ESPN 1420 this morning Foote mentioned that two of the kids onthe losing team were autistic. IT sounds like this was a game that should never have been scheduled. But since it was you would think the winning coach would have called the dogs off once it was obvious (which apparently must have been right at tip off) that he had the upper hand.

Contrast this guy's actions with those of the football coach who, with the game well in hand in his favor, allowed the mentally handicapped kid (team manager dressing for the final game) on the other team to score. The basketball coach could learn something from that football coach. _

Autistic kids playing against regular High School athletes sheds a whole new light on this. The game should not have been scheduled. The coach is a jerk.

[CajunSaint]

_ In the original story I read it stated that the losing team had special needs students. Now I know in today's society the trm "special needs" has been stretched to include a lot of things. But in this case I think it might really apply. On ESPN 1420 this morning Foote mentioned that two of the kids onthe losing team were autistic. IT sounds like this was a game that should never have been scheduled. But since it was you would think the winning coach would have called the dogs off once it was obvious (which apparently must have been right at tip off) that he had the upper hand.

Contrast this guy's actions with those of the football coach who, with the game well in hand in his favor, allowed the mentally handicapped kid (team manager dressing for the final game) on the other team to score. The basketball coach could learn something from that football coach. _

absolutely right, h58. this was a team with at least two spec. needs kids, and i'm not talking dyslexia here. how about that other bball team who had the autistic kid jack up those 3-pointers, and the other team was cheering him on? the article i read described the winnning asst. coach cheering and dancing as his team approached the century mark. where was the head coach? and for those who argue that because of the special kids, this game should not have been scheduled, it was a league game. i think, once more, the adults screwed it all up for the kids. the winning team's players could have learned a valuable lesson in this game. instead, what they learned was that the adults running this program are just plain jerks.

[Hammer58]

_ Autistic kids playing against regular High School athletes sheds a whole new light on this. The game should not have been scheduled. The coach is a jerk. _

Maybe the game was scheduled as a favor to the losing school ( I think the original article stated that it was a special school for special needs kids) to give their kids an opponent. It looks like the winning coach just didn't get the memo about how to act towards kids that start out in life with the short end of the stick.

[Crawfish]

_ Maybe the game was scheduled as a favor to the losing school ( I think the original article stated that it was a special school for special needs kids) to give their kids an opponent. It looks like the winning coach just didn't get the memo about how to act towards kids that start out in life with the short end of the stick. _

I wish I had not read this first thing this morning (Saurday here.) It has made me very sad.


You seldom hear the term "good sportsmanship" anymore, like we did when I was a kid. That concept, like so many other American values, has gone away.

[RCAJUN90]

_ I wish I had not read this first thing this morning (Saurday here.) It has made me very sad.


You seldom hear the term "good sportsmanship" anymore, like we did when I was a kid. That concept, like so many other American values, has gone away. _

The Coach is not sorry! Nowhere do they mention it was a special needs school.
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