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Post by wingtol on Oct 31, 2009 10:22:30 GMT -6
Last night we were play a team that could arguably be the worst team in the state, they are a boys home and in their second year of being a program and their number are real low. It's a hard game to get ready for just because of the quality of play. So anyways we are up 47-0 at the half and playing everyone in the second half. We have a few freshman score in the second and a couple of their kids go down. So the last time a kid goes down their coach walks over to us before even checking his kid and just says "We're done" and tells the ref to call it with 7:30 in the 4th qtr.
Never had that happen to me before and was wondering if anyone else has had a team just literally quit on them.
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Post by coachguy83 on Nov 1, 2009 0:15:02 GMT -6
I've never had it done to me, but about three years ago my little brother was playing in a JV game that the other team quit. They had a kid get injured bad enough to take him away in an ambulance, and had some other kids get banged up. So they gave up, packed it in, and went to the locker room.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Nov 1, 2009 4:45:08 GMT -6
We played a jv game last year and had 10 kids on the field and could only run wedge.
we talked about calling the game but my assistant said "the last coach to do that got fired" so we finished. we were ahead early but ended up losing. but we finished.
There are times as a coach when you can be so completely overmatched that your kids are being carried off, carted off, picked up by the ambulance....too frequently, it hurts, its hard to watch. I would imagine in the example abovee that the coach was just tired/exhausted of seeing his kids bodies mangled. for what? another 40 or 50 point loss?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 8:13:15 GMT -6
Oh god yeah,...they've never walked off the field, but we've had kids walk right off the sidelines. Teams giving up during blowouts etc..
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Post by coachcb on Nov 1, 2009 10:45:07 GMT -6
We played a few teams in the class below us in at the lower levels this year.
We laid a beating on all of them; we were up by at least 4 scores going into the 3rd quarter. At out level, we don't have an option of a mercy rule; we play the whole game, no running clock.
The officials asked the other team if they wanted a running clock and they stood their ground and said NO. If they had done so, it wouldn't have been construed as protecting the kids, it would have been viewed as quitting. And I agree with their call; no matter how bad the loss is, no matter how frustrated you may be, there's always a need for game reps. Play the game, do you best to get the kids' heads up, show pride, and use it as a learning experience.
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Post by fbcoach74 on Nov 3, 2009 9:16:33 GMT -6
6 years a go we played a team and we were up quite a bit. We put in our JV kids to start the 4th quarter. Our quarterback ran for 52 yards and scored. We kick off again and they suffered another injury so the coach came to the officlias with 9 minutes left and told them they quit, then they left the field.
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Post by coachbiskits on Nov 3, 2009 12:06:51 GMT -6
As a player we had a team beat by 35 in the 3rd quarter and the JVs went in. They put their starters back out and scored then started taunting our bench. Our coach got pis$ed and put the first team back in. We scored twice and on our third drive their coach was berating his kids so bad that the guy lined up across from me was literally crying into his mouthguard. We got the ball back down to their 10 and their coached pulled the team with 7 minutes left. On the day they named the field after him.
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Post by mattharris75 on Nov 3, 2009 13:58:29 GMT -6
The closest thing we've had to a team quitting is this. We played a team game 1 last season and scored 47 points on them in the first quarter. We played 6 minute quarters the rest of the game and just ran the same play over and over to run the clock out. Alabama is on 2 year contracts, they were supposed to be our game 1 this year as well. They just happened to call us the day before the game and cancel because of too many sick kids. Or so they said. I just think they didn't want to get hammered again.
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