100-0 basketball game -- wrong or not?

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

The coach is going to ( if he hasn't already ) lawyer up and get $omething out of the school for getting fired.
No doubt about that.

If someone can sue a school after acting like he did.. well this country is a damn shame.

But considering SUE HAPPY AMERICA, it wouldnt surprise me.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I don't want to see it happen, but what rule did he break while doing his job ?
If that can't be answered, he's getting something.

High School sports are not just about winning and losing. I think he broke lots of morality codes and integrity codes.

And considering that the school fired him (not because of the game) but because he wrote a letter to the newspaper saying he wasnt sorry about anything... after the school had tried to forfeit and gave apologies.

He wont win a darn thing in my opinion.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

High School sports are not just about winning and losing. I think he broke lots of morality codes and integrity codes.

And considering that the school fired him (not because of the game) but because he wrote a letter to the newspaper saying he wasnt sorry about anything... after the school had tried to forfeit and gave apologies.

He wont win a darn thing in my opinion.

Ok, like with Timm, I'm not reading the same things you are. The article does not say that he was fired because of the letter he wrote. It says it's unclear if it's because of the score of the game or because he says he's not sorry. Either way, I don't see where they have any just cause for firing him. As a basketball coach, he could win 200-0 if he so feels like it and he can't be fired for it. And if he knows the he was really trying to keep the score down and that it could have been worse had he wanted it to be, he has no reason to apologize for his behavior as he did nothing wrong. It also doesn't say the school tried to forfeit the game at all. If anyone should be fired, it should be the coach of the other team for scheduling his disadvantaged girls against an opponent that was capable of beating them that bad. Whether the beating was 100-0, 50-0, 75-6......this was a game that shouldn't have been scheduled in the first place.

I don't know if any of you remember the story of that kid in NY (I think it was NY) last year that had the developmental problems and the coach finally put him in during the last game of his last season? That might not be exactly accurate but it was something like that. This kid was finally put into a game and ended up scoring something like 20 points in the last five minutes of the game. Should his coach have told him, after finally putting him in a game, to just hold the ball and not shoot? Don't try to score or do anything to embarrass the other team? Is that what this coach should have done? Told his team to not play any defense and just let the other team score and then when we have the ball, don't do anything at all. Just inbound it and stand there. Don't shoot because there's no shot clock so we don't have to. Maybe to be a little bit nicer to them, throw a bad pass or two so they can steal it and then let them score. What do you do?

[Antitrust32]

King, read this article. This is where I am getting my statements from. You will totally change your opinion. Also, it was the Dallas Academy team that only had 8 players.

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool...ory?id=3852460


edit: also I told you what I would do if I was the coach in Post 26

[Antitrust32]

Great quote in the ESPN article by the head of the winning school

"A victory without honor is a great loss"

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

King, read this article. This is where I am getting my statements from. You will totally change your opinion. Also, it was the Dallas Academy team that only had 8 players.

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool...ory?id=3852460


edit: also I told you what I would do if I was the coach in Post 26

Now, this story tells a different story. If this story is accurate, then I think firing him is justified and that the act was classless.

I'm glad to see that Dallas Academy has cancelled the rematch and the rest of their games for this season. They haven't won a game in four years. This was never going to end well.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Now, this story tells a different story. If this story is accurate, then I think firing him is justified and that the act was classless.

I'm glad to see that Dallas Academy has cancelled the rematch and the rest of their games for this season. They haven't won a game in four years. This was never going to end well.

This was the first article I read about this subject.... now you know why I formed all the opinions I did & why it upset me so much...

I also trust ESPN as a source (eventhough PacMan may disagree), and considering all of the controversy created by this I bet the ESPN article was right on point.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

I only saw the two articles highlighted in this thread.

Where did I miss the part about Coach Grimes writing a letter to a newspaper ?

you didnt miss it... it wasnt brought up in the thread before I mentioned it.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article...30/1007/SPORTS

here ya go.