We did a post earlier in the week on a basketball team that beat another one - from a school that teaches kids with mental disabilities - 100-0.
At the time, school officials from Covenant School had issued an apology. Apparently coach Micah Grimes had no part of that according to the Associated Press.
The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.
The school even issued a statement on its Web site saying "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition"
Grimes sent an e-mail to the The Dallas Morning News saying he does not agree with the school's apology.
"In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. "We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."
This might sound cold or
This might sound cold or flippant, but if they didn't want to get beaten 100-0, they should've played better defense or scheduled differently. From the reporting I've read, there are no indications that this was a TeeBall game. I ask why the losing coach scheduled this game and why he didn't offer to forfeit at half-time.
What was this team supposed
What was this team supposed to do?
Score buckets for the other team to make it a close contest?
Throw the ball away every posession?
Knit?
Someone makes a case for running up the score based on the fact they shot 3 pointers
WELL
3 pointers are the hardest way to score points and yet still play the game
Fire off shots from baseline to baseline off rafters like a McDonalds commercial?
What else can you do?
Coach faced with similar situation
She instructed her [bench] students to avoid fast breaks and not to shoot the ball until after at least five passes
asked if could keep clock running
If your team sucks so badly that you "never expect to win"
and expect other teams to take it easy on you or change how the game is normally played so as to not make you feel too bad
Maybe you should be happy playing on the playground after school or something?
Dallas Academy mother says "They play because they want to play. They play because they enjoy being together"
Honor? What about honoring the game? Honoring competition itself. The kids on the other teams should be able to face real and fair competition during an athletic event not practice charity for 4 quarters
"These are children we are talking about, aren't they"
No
competitors
challengers
Cannot score 1 basket in a high school game?
Don't play.
Just got beat 41-8
Who wants to bet the winning team played Barbie 2nd half?
Winning teams school wants to forfeit
Winning coach got fired
lol
Losing coach
"We are not quitters, and we don't give up"
Player on team at halftime
"Do we have to go back out there?
cute but empty
I think in a situation like
I think in a situation like this, you put your five worst players on the floor for the entire second half and make them kill the entire shot clock before putting one up.
It gives kids that don't often get playing time a chance to play, gives the team that is getting stomped a chance to score a few points and everybody wins.
There is no excuse for beating a team 100-0. You play your bottom five and be honorable. I think the coach should have went with the school's take and just apologized and asked for the forfeit. That is shameful what he has done in my opinion.
Brian..what other teams have
Brian..what other teams have played the school in question.And what kind of scores were put up against them... I
agree with you play your bottom five..
What if your five worst
What if your five worst would start on their team? Do you punish your five by telling them to huddle together as a group in the corner and let the other team rain shots? How humiliating would that be to your 'five worst' players? What if your team is balanced enough that you have to pick names out of a hat to pick starters? How humiliated would your 'five worst players' feel to be coached to go out and deliberately suck? "Look, you're the 'five worst players' I've got. Go out and suck more than I already think you do".
There is no excuse for scheduling a team that has a chance to beat your kids this badly. The losing coach bears more responsibility than the other coach or team. That coach is the one who should quit. Its not the winning coach's fault that the other coach sucked. "Yes, I'm an awful coach, but the other coach should be fired for doing his job."
I don't know the other teams
I don't know the other teams they have played. I would have to research Texas High School girls basketball, which would probably take a decent amount of time and I'd rather work on local stuff. But this is an interesting national story that something like it could happen around here. We have some great teams and some really bad teams. If Le Roy would have played Holley last football season, that game could get up to 70-0. Look at our girls basketball teams: Elba could really stomp Attica this year, but Tom Nowak has enough class that he would do what I suggested.
I'm assuming they get stomped in most of their games if they lose 100-0 and then 41-8.
Russ, what if that team
Russ, what if that team played in their league and they had no choice but to play them?
And I'm sure you've seen times when your daughters played for very good Notre Dame and Elba teams that the coaches were classy and call off the dogs in a blowout.
I can't speak for two of
I can't speak for two of the best coaches in Section Five. But, I can personally say that I never saw a coach send players out to lie down like 'dogs'. Its never the better coach's fault that the other guy can't coach.
"Look, you're the 'five worst
"Look, you're the 'five worst players' I've got.
haha
"what if that team played in their league and they had no choice but to play them?"
Get out of that league
start up a new league for the challenged
Play 4 on 4 after school if your kids "just want to play and don't care about or cannot be competitive"
"After the game, Dallas Academy informed the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools that it was withdrawing its girls team from the league for the rest of the season."
"We just said, 'The hell with it," said Jim Richardson, Dallas Academy's headmaster.
.."We are not quitters, and we don't give up"
??????
I can understand getting out of the league
They should.
"The hell with it"
That doesn't sound like respect, though
Losing coach
"I'm sure they could have won by 30 points and still had just as good a time"
LOL
Maybe they could have had just as good a time playing checkers?
I'd bet not many actually had all that great a time
it being such an empty win
You play on an organized team for competition
not just to have some fun
There are about 20 girls in the high school. Some on the eight-girl team had never played before.
Have not won once -on their own- in years