Girls Basketball Team Regrets Winning 100-0, Seeks Forfeit

[Paco]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481854,00.html

This happened here in the Dallas area recently.


DALLAS — A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse


"I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off."

Should have backed off? Maybe I am off base here, but what is the big deal. Yeah, someone got spanked on the court. But do we really want to teach our kids to accept mediocrity?

"Hey little Johnny, I know you can beat these guys so don't do as well as you honestly can and make it look like they had a shot"

What kind of message does that send our kids? Hasn't there already been enough damage to this nation from the feminazis and the de-masculanization (sp?) of at least 1 generation of our boys. Now we have to tell our kids to not do as well as they can in sports because it might not look good and hurt someone's feelings?

If I am just a heartless whackjob, please let me know and I will go seek counseling.

[CopperKnight]

Coeur d'Alene (JV) 121, Kootenai 18.
Coeur d'Alene 82, Sandpoint 6.

Couple those around here. Nobody is grousing about it though. 'cept perhaps the losing coach at the team.

If that doesn't make you want to play harder, you shouldn't be in sports. I have to admit, though, I would probably have remorse at making the other team look that bad. I would feel bad, but I sure wouldn't make some of the comments that were made in that article.

[Nelson Muntz]

Well Mr. President, we could wipe them out immediately, but we have to let them kill 10,000 of us first so it will look like a fair fight.

[Bumper]

If I am just a heartless whackjob, please let me know and I will go seek counseling.

I guess if you are, I am, too....:eek5:

[SelfDefense]

I don't have a problem with the score. I have a problem that the coach was fired.

I do think it was over the top and should have been better controlled. There is such a thing as sportsmanship, which was only displayed by the losing team. However, at what point do you decide the coach should be fired? What margin of victory is the limit? There have been extraordinary comebacks in the history of sports, games that some would have considered 'over.'

The real problem is that the two teams should not have been playing. The schedule should preclude such lopsided matchups.

[Paco]

I don't have a problem with the score. I have a problem that the coach was fired.

I do think it was over the top and should have been better controlled. There is such a thing as sportsmanship, which was only displayed by the losing team. However, at what point do you decide the coach should be fired? What margin of victory is the limit? There have been extraordinary comebacks in the history of sports, games that some would have considered 'over.'

The real problem is that the two teams should not have been playing. The schedule should preclude such lopsided matchups.

Agreed. I think the coach was fired as an attempt to "make things better", to show that "see we aren't so bad". The coach and/or Refs should have probably stopped the game early, when it became obvious and mathematically impossible for the other team to do anything, but there needs to be a rule in place for that if that is the route they want to take.

The loosing team has apparently been loosing like this for quite a while, maybe its time they reevaluate their girls' basketball program. Maybe they need to go down a notch in the district, if that is possible.

[Bumper]

I don't believe that anyone should do anything differently. Maybe by repeatedly getting the stuffing beat out of them they will either step aside for someone that can interject some competition into the game or get off their duffs and win something. Blaming the winner for anything in this seems to be more along the lines of trying to not hurt someone's "self esteem"....:rolleyes: