Team that wins 100-0 apologizes

[MedicCook]

Sports is where kids learn what real life is all about. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. The harder you try the better chance you have at being a winner. Then with team sports you learn that and then learn that you are only as good as your weakest player, which is another good life lesson for kids as they grow up.
I have a feeling that this team gave up and are just as responsible for the lopsided loss as the team that beat them.
I also agree that the PC world has killed youth sports and it is showing more and more as these kids grow up and have been pampered in life and not had the ability to learn what being a loser feels like and learn to cope with it and move on, instead their first failure is in adulthood and some are never able to recover from it.

[Genetic Defect]

whats this apology crap? did Patrick apologize when he whooped your a$$?

[Mr.Maduro]

Originally Posted by Big Vito

whats this apology crap? did Patrick apologize when he whooped your a$$?

[shilala]

I've coached soccer and softball for the last 20 years. Two teams a year, usually.
I have never and will never tell my kids to let up, or to play at less than 100%. If that means winning 100 to nothing, so be it.
What I do to try to balance a pounding is to load up with second stringers. If they continue to whallop the other team, that's a great accomplishment for those kids, too.
Those girls worked hard and should benefit from the feeling they get from a good win.
The kids who got their asses handed to them can learn just as much.
I do agree that there's a "line". There's always an argument about where that line is because this world is so chock full of pussies nowadays.

We used to play State College in basketball when I was in High School. They'd regularly beat us by a 70 point margin. I scored 5 points against them once (from second string) and it felt like the greatest accomplishment of my life to that point, despite the fact we lost by 80 or 90 points.

I can see why the girls on that club were excited, they were about to score 100 points and I'm sure that's something they've never done.
Why a team of that caliber was playing a team full of girls with "learning differences" is a good question. Hopefully someone learned that it's not a good idea to take a knife to a gun fight.

The coach did let up with 4 minutes left in the game after he allowed the girls to achieve the 100 point mark. The Dallas Academy girls said "they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity. They also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite."

I think the grownups involved need to grow up.

[Yazzie]

Man, I am sick of this but it did get me thinking.

What bothers me is we have become such a PC society that now everyone has to defend their actions and the principal of the winning HS wants to forfeit the game. Yes, the winning HS principal wants to forfeit the game because they won.

Hell, when we were kids and got our ASSES kicked in sports what did we do? We worked that much harder to make sure it didn’t happen again right?

Think back: when we played sports what happened to the kids who SUCKED (Including us)? They/We rode the bench and they/We rode the bench until:

A: They/We figured they/We didn’t like the sport much and just stopped playing. Nothing wrong with that

B: They/we really enjoyed playing but figured out quickly that in order to get better some hard work was going to be needed. Yes it may be a tough concept for some of this society’s parents to grasp but maybe Junior needs to actually Practice (“Practice?” Yes Iverson) to get better at something. What a silly concept huh?

But now you have youth sports where everyone plays and everyone wins and everone gets a medal and frankly it’s one big Cum-By-Ya . What the Hell has happened to competition?

The PC Weenies have really put a damper on youth sports and competition and the life lessons that it teaches children that they can use throughout their lives….

Junior can’t throw the ball but Junior should play…….Maybe Junior should practice MORE to become BETTER? Nah, that would make too much sense now wouldn’t it?

[tnip23]

From what I read elsewhere the winning team only had 6 players, so putting in the second string wasn't really possible. Also heard the losing team is withdrawing from the league for the rest of the season. I hope the winners don't go through with there plans of forfeiting the game, wins and losses happen, you should be able to learn from both.

[Prefy]

Losing 100-0 definitely isn't a confidence booster but what goes around comes around and that's what must be remembered. Throughout your time playing athletics you are going to be on both side of these beatings and I really see no reason to forfiet a game. At least 100 points is a common occurrence in basketball if you want to see a real beating check out when Slovakia beat Bulgaria 82-0 in an Olympic hockey qualifying event.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puc...urn=nhl,106362

[Genetic Defect]

HA! I'm winning at losing

The people who know winning best are the losers.

What's not told are other factors around the team(s).

Has the winning team constantly been doing blowouts? If so, then what's the big deal about 100-0? Basketball is about scoring consistently, once there's a huge deficit in points it just means the other team is that much better. If not, then it's a random fluke where someone had a good day and someone had a bad day. **** days happen, get over it.

Has the losing team constantly lost by blowouts? If they've lost every game like this, then you have a bad team; practice harder and do whatever it takes if basketball is a passion for the players. I didn't see Albert Einstein "give up" because some theory didn't work, or have another great mind give up his Nobel Prize because Einstein couldn't figure out some other theory. If it was a fluke, well like before, get over it.

It's terrible that schools dumb down everything due to PC-parents. You pass kids that should fail, you take away victories from those who earn it and give freebies to those who don't deserve it. If this keeps up, I'm scared of what the future may entail.

Well lets stir the pot, the winning coach was fired yesterday
Its like a soap opera.. Yes I would hate to be on the losing team, but I would just say they handed our as's to us. I agree it's a hard call, but I tell my son everytime he wins"it's good to win, but SOMETIMES you lose."
and when I beat him I say " it stinks to lose, but what can you learn from it that will help you next time? Loser"

[md4958]

Originally Posted by Gone Dave

Well lets stir the pot, the winning coach was fired yesterday

Thats just ridiculous.

[ucla695]

Yep, he was fired. Here's some more info.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps...ch-fired_N.htm

[RevSmoke]

A couple things.
1) Why were two teams of obviously vastly different student populations, doing in the same league? And, if there was such obvious differences, and this was brought out by the fact that this team has not won a game in the last three years, what were they doing on the same court?

2) I have coached numerous sports in the last 25 years. The best example I can give is the 12-0 drubbing my team (local youth soccer league for 11-14 year olds) delivered this last season in soccer. When the score got to 5-0, I rotated the line-up with the following instructions, "If you have scored this season (it was our 3rd game), you cannot take a shot on goal today." Then, we proceeded to get the remaining seven players on the team who had gone without a goal, to get their first.

It ws not so much out of pity for the other team, as I saw it as an opportunity to get some of my players the opportunity they might never get against the superior teams we'd play later. I used it as a practice/scrimmage opportunity to get the team to do some other things. It was amazing how a couple players, who were some of my better forwards became better team players that day - learning to pass. It stood us in good stead when we played tougher teams and they learned to key on the better players - and they knew that they could pass and someone else might have a better opportunity to score, and did.

While I hate to see such lopsided scores in any sport, kids also need to learn that not everything is going to be given them. They will apply for jobs, and the better candidate will get the job. They are not always going to get their own way. And, when they fall on their backside (as they all will at some point), they will need to shake the dust off and get out their and try again.

Here's another thought. Maybe this school ought not field a basketball team if all they can do is get beaten so bad. Of course, losing does build character. Of course, how you win exposes character.

[Kreth]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

While I hate to see such lopsided scores in any sport, kids also need to learn that not everything is going to be given them. They will apply for jobs, and the better candidate will get the job. They are not always going to get their own way. And, when they fall on their backside (as they all will at some point), they will need to shake the dust off and get out their and try again.

I think it's going to get worse. You have parents suing coaches now when their kids get cut. In a few years, we'll start seeing lawsuits when these entitled little brats get passed over for a job opportunity.

Did anyone catch THIS snippet??

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons

Two questions -

1 - What were the scores of THOSE games???

2 - Which coach got fired again??

[Kreth]

Looks like the winning coach only had 8 girls on his team as well. They can only run the clock for so long before they have to shoot. What were they supposed to do, intentionally miss?

Ridiculous.

You do something you're supposed to do (win) and get fired for it. Let's baby the next generation even more and just GIVE them college degrees.

[MedicCook]

To me the blame really needs to fall on the school administration of the winning team for making this a big deal to begin with. If they kept out of it and just went on with life this would never have become a media circus.

[ActionAndy]

To be very sincere I think we can all admit that no one cares about girls' basketball anyway.

The coach's response to this whole shenanigan. He brings up good points.


http://www.flightbasketball.com/100-...rom-Coach.html