Coach Fired after 100-0 Girls BB Win

[wadeintothem]

They have short attention spans and dyslexia I don't know about you but that pretty much summed up most kids I knew when I was in high school particularly the athletes we just didn't have drugs or a name for it. The tone of a few posts have approached the speculation that these kids are handicapped which is by no means the case.

Maybe its the Texas water then, because, no that would not describe most of the kids I went to high school with.

[Skarp]

Maybe I'm missing something here. Is there some sort of lasting damage that is incurred by getting beaten 100-0 in a basketball game? And if somebody uses the term "self-esteem," it's a good bet that "bad Skarp" will be paying an extended visit to this topic.

[K'SDAD]

I got beat 1-0 in wrestling in high school, my only loss my junior year. That was worse than getting pinned 11 times my freshman year and 7 times my sophomore year if you add them all together. In conclusion a close loss is harder to take than a blowout loss, so Dallas Academy should count their blessings that there were no close games.

[Hawk17]

It is always interesting to note that the kids on the losing team were offered a chance to quit the game at half and they said "no." I am pretty sure these kids were not delusional; they knew that the other team was going to continue to score in the second half. But, they continued.

Once again it is the parents trying to "protect" these kids from "psychological" harm. Many modern parents don't want their kids to face ANY adversity or disappointment. We are turning out a generation of kids who can't handle even the least significant or slightest disappointment.

My kids and my teams have been on both sides of lopsided wins. Nine times out of ten, the kids laugh it off and move on. It is how the ADULTS react that is the key. I always try to use it as a learning experience. As I tell kids, if you don't like these losses, GET BETTER!

Was it right for this coach to let the team score 100 points? Who knows. Should the coach be fired? No. Ridiculous.

Here is the scariest thought. Every county athletic director will now want " guidelines" for when the kids should stop shooting baskets, hitting, etc. Just what we need. ( At least the county I work in will now try to institute a " don't be too successful" rule.

[coolstuff]

I think everyone is missing the point here. I don't think the coach was fired for running up the score. The school admins publicly apologized for that. Then the coach breaks from the party line and publicly announces he disagrees with the apology. We don't know all the details, but it may be that he was told to keep his mouth shut. In any case, it's clearly insubordination, which is grounds for immediate dismissal (ask your supervisor for your company's policy on this and you may find that you can get fired immediately and without due process for insubordination - unless you belong to a union, of course). It wasn't the score that got him fired; it was going against his admins in a public forum.

[Hawk17]

I think everyone is missing the point here. I don't think the coach was fired for running up the score. The school admins publicly apologized for that. Then the coach breaks from the party line and publicly announces he disagrees with the apology. We don't know all the details, but it may be that he was told to keep his mouth shut. In any case, it's clearly insubordination, which is grounds for immediate dismissal (ask your supervisor for your company's policy on this and you may find that you can get fired immediately and without due process for insubordination - unless you belong to a union, of course). It wasn't the score that got him fired; it was going against his admins in a public forum.

That was pretty stupid on his part to disagree with administration, especially if he was told to keep quiet. I didn't know that part. He left himself open for that.

I still think that the whole thing is ridiculous in terms of the uproar the game caused.

[GIMNEPIWO]

I agree that many of these things that upset Parents do not effect the kids the same way ... and that trying to smooth over an AS* kicking for them is wrong ... just as wrong as letting them think they are the greatest after a win, or allowing them to trash talk the other team, etc etc. ... This Coach, fire him or don't ... that's not my call and we probably don't know all the details anyway ... But for anyone to indicate that a losing team, no matter how bad the loss, needs to quit, give up, walk away ... that's just wrong ...now if the Coach of the losing team had pulled his players off the Court ... there is the Coach that needs to be fired ... because the lessons they can learn from this AS* kicking far out weigh the lessons that have been learned by the winning team in this case ...

[wadeintothem]

It is always interesting to note that the kids on the losing team were offered a chance to quit the game at half and they said "no." I am pretty sure these kids were not delusional; they knew that the other team was going to continue to score in the second half. But, they continued.

Once again it is the parents trying to "protect" these kids from "psychological" harm. Many modern parents don't want their kids to face ANY adversity or disappointment. We are turning out a generation of kids who can't handle even the least significant or slightest disappointment.

My kids and my teams have been on both sides of lopsided wins. Nine times out of ten, the kids laugh it off and move on. It is how the ADULTS react that is the key. I always try to use it as a learning experience. As I tell kids, if you don't like these losses, GET BETTER!

Was it right for this coach to let the team score 100 points? Who knows. Should the coach be fired? No. Ridiculous.

Here is the scariest thought. Every county athletic director will now want " guidelines" for when the kids should stop shooting baskets, hitting, etc. Just what we need. ( At least the county I work in will now try to institute a " don't be too successful" rule.

You make some good points.

It could be that coach does not represent the values that particular school wants taught as part of its athletic program or representing their school as a whole. It very well could be that he needed to be fired.

I've been on the field with girls getting a drubbing and the girls are cheering, happy, and seemingly oblivious to the score. It does not seem the score affected these girls. It seems like it affected a bunch of people who read about them and certainly affected a bored press.

[Joe]

This coach will be fine...Bob Stoops is hiring...

[Sam]

SAM,

no where does it say they were pressing. Are you guessing they were pressing by the score.

I don't give reading lessons....but if you read what I posted on page 1 of this thread, a parent and the losing coach stated that they pressed and horked up 3's....and didn't let up until they reached 100 points halfway through the 4th quarter....they didn't score after the guy called off the dogs.