School seeks to forfeit 100-0 Win

Yeah but how does the other team not score at all in basketball? I have seen some bad basketball, and even have coached some church league and never have seen a team not score. We won the championship three years in a row, but never had a team score less than 20 in 8 minute quarters. Maybe the other school should think about if they need to have a team if they can't score any points. You would think that there would be a free throw or something.

Can't really blame the fans, how often do you get to see 100 scored in a high school game. I go to a lot of the games, and have never seen it. The most I have ever seen is high 80's against our rivals in a game for the region title.

Apparently they pressed almost the entire game and the other team couldn't get the ball across half court.
These margins aren't that uncommon in Girls basketball. I think if it had been 99-2 it wouldn't have made the paper, but would still be wrong.

I may have missed it in the article, but what is the size difference between the two schools? Also, the state may want to rethink this. "There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become lopsided."

There should be something that could be done. Calhoun County hs here in SC is a boys basketball powerhouse that scores over 100 with some regularity and have won by scores like 137-21, 144-21, 110-20, 112-18 in the past few years. They had a 70 something game winning streak that ended earlier this year, but I think that there should be someway of keeping scores closer than that, I mean who needs to win by 123 points?

I could really see that happening if society continues this make everyone feel good about themselves deal. Coached in a youth football league two years ago that didn't keep score so that no one had to lose. Didn't know it until the coaches meeting the week of the first practice.

I totally agree with you. As we move away from a competition based society toward the Utopian collectivist society like the former soviet union is when you will see this. right now in Congress our government is preparing to take away your health care choices and force you into a government controlled health care plan. just found out today that 600 million of the new economic stimulus package is a campaign to prepare the people of the USA for universal death care.

The team they played was a "Special Needs" school.
The losing team has cancelled the rest of its games.
Horray for the stud coach that won 100-0, his reaction to the score "It just Happened". Way to go coach, Im sure Duke will be calling you very soon.
What a buffoon and what a great witness he showed in his actions and response.

Now, you're just making stuff up--I don't think anyone is objecting to cheering on his team. It's objecting to the fullcourt press and the methods used to get a 100-0 victory. It's running up the score and in poor taste no matter how you cut it. If you don't see this, I feel truely sorry for you.

BTW, I wouldn't accept the forfeit victory either. That doesn't in any way make what happened right.

What was the anthem of the Conservative for eight years while Bush was spitting on American values? Oh yeah Elections have consequences.

Not really shocked that a thread full of people defending a 100-0 score in high school would also shift it into a rah-rah Conservative political thread.

seeing how every person has a different view people could say any method which seeks to move the football when up by a large score as not acceptable. the merely will to make a first down would then dictate you are hurting the other team.

what we have is accepted paradigms based why what a person feels or thinks. for years merely attempting a forward pass was seen as rubbing it in the other teams face. in football it is accepted by coaches that running up the score is okay as long as you do it a certin way. you run the ball and that is accepted by coaches. somehow this is seen as your earned. now if you are a throwing team and you score a td in the 4th quarter with your subs on a long pass you are seen as rubbing it in.

really what we should all say is" take offense to nothing". when this is instilled it is not about you. you do not get upset. when you coach against the other guy that is when you get upset. when you place your moral and values upon him is when you get upset. you say he should have scored less or whatever you want to say. It really is a personal point of view.
the only time I can say one is really running up the score is if they have their starters in the game and the other team has subbed.

if your team cannot stop my JV from scoring it is not my job to stop them. I think it is not right to ask your subs to lay down so the other team can may be score and feel good about themselves. I come from the MIKE LEACH theory of football. It is your job to stop us.

not shifting the thread at all. just stating there is a political culture in this country which seeks to punish the successful and reward the unsuccessful. so instead of taking responsibility for ones own thoughts and feeling they blame others for the loss.

the kids on the team with 0 points saw it as a learning experience. IT is when adults who seek to be modern day robinhoods in the desire to eliminate pain and suffering inorder to make people feel good is only setting kids up for failure.

It has been proven the self esteem movement has done more harm then good. self esteem is earned though winning and becoming a champion not by saying I feel good today like stewart similie.

it is not his fault the other team chose to become quitters. It is called free will. ADHD and ADD is an excuse. come to the martial arts facility where I go and you will see ADD and ADHD kids having no problems with concentration. IT always amazes the parents how well behaved their children are after becoming martial artists. whe you become a MA you realize you have the power to control your own thoughts and your own actiions. This is how you learn to break bricks and boards. you control your own thoughts and cast out fear.

That's on the coach, plain and simple. If the report is true they were pressing the whole game, he or she deserves some free time next season to reflect on the foolishness of that. I have no problem with the 3's, they are not automatic and you have to execute your offense, but in basketball on D you can let up on the pressure and at least allow them to have a shot at executing in a half court offense.

I think there is a perspective of mutual respect for our competitors that comes into play here. In the more advanced martial arts (most notably Aikido) there is a concept of attacker-defender. During practice, it is on the attacker to represent an appropriate level of aggression against a defender, in the spirit of helping the defender grow in their skill. This allows an advanced student to work with a lesser skilled student in a way that helps them both grow in the art. It is a (I know this will sound corny, but it's true) loving way to allow both to grow in both spirit and ability. This same concept can be applied when a superior team plays an inferior team. This is to me a key element of sportsmanship and there is nothing wuss about that.

Now perhaps the coach was padding stats for the purpose of making a kid look better to recruiters. I've seen that in football (and other sports) before, where a coach will leave his starters in up by 4 scores in the first half, ostensibly to pad their stats for recruiters. The problem is if that a kid goes down late in the season you now have to replace him with a less experienced player. You have only inflated the ego of the stud (don't we have enough problems with that given what they see from the TOs?), denied valuable experience to another player that you will need later in the current season or the next, and undermined team cohesiveness. If that kid you're leaving in to pad his stats is such a stud, the recruiters will find him anyway. IMHO, of course, but I've seen this cost a team or two dearly when the studs got tired late in the game from going both ways or a key stud goes down and you lose a critical game. If you are doing it for your ego or to avenge a previous disappointment, well, that's a whole 'nuther discussion.

If we are coaching for the right reasons, it's for the kids. Not just ours, but theirs too. Athletics teaches so many great lessons to us all. We get our satisfactions as a by-product of how we impart those lessons. What did that coach teach his or her kids and the other team's kids? We could argue many things, but I would suspect nothing of value was learned by either squad.

Totally agree. When you're up 59-0 you have pretty much accomplished that, proven your superior skill at the game, and now you have a chance to serve others by imparting even more valuable lessons.

You're exemplifying the political culture that exists among some that seeks to punish others in an attempt to make themselves feel like a better person.



Wow....



Well to me it is clear that some people get their self esteem from hurting others. =)