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Only in America would you fire a coach for allowing his team to score 100 points against a team that could not even hit the basket. So how many chances do you give the opposing team a shot at scoring? Let say the losing team shot 100 times and missed all 100, do you fire the coach for this. Of course not, he only wanted his team to reach the goal of 100 and that's wrong because the other team could not hit the basket. You say he was running up the score, really? The other team was given plenty of chances to score and failed to make a single basket. Oh but the other team was slow mentally and physically. Once again America is cowering down to the far left. Sounds like the typical school to me. Slow kids are getting left behind in their studies so lets slow the entire class down so they can catch up. Real bright America, bring everyone down to the same level. That's called Socialism and it always fails to stimulate the best and it’s not AMERICAN.
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Slow kids are getting left behind in their studies so lets slow the entire class down so they can catch up. Real bright America, bring everyone down to the same level. That's called Socialism and it always fails to stimulate the best and it’s not




This has been going on for quite some time. Its called affirmative action.
The news reported that they might be mentally challenged but not so sure this is true. Its obviously they can't play basketball nor could they hit the backboard. The majority of shots were air balls. The girls team has never won a game, so does this mean some team must play bad and let the girls win? That's socialism. You punish the team for playing well against a team who really has no business being at team. That's socialism. You punish a person who is wealthy because they worked hard to obtain their wealth and take from the wealthy person to give to the bum who has never worked a day in his life. That's socialism. Where is the incentive to win or to make money?
The person who possibly should be fired is the person who set the schedule for these 2 teams to play.

On second thought, maybe the coach of the team who couldn't score one basket the entire game should be the one fired.

Texas coach fired for 100-point win
January 26th, 2009, posted by Josh Weinfuss
I’m sure by now sports fans around the area have heard about the 100-0 girl’s basketball win by Dallas’ The Covenant School, a Christian institution, over Dallas Academy, a small school with 20 girls that specializes “in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia,” according to The Associated Press.

Well, Covenant coach Micah Grimes was fired during the weekend. Here’s the story.

In an e-mail to the Dallas Morning News, Grimes expressed his displeasure over this statement, posted on Covenant’s Web site following the game:

“Statement Regarding Dallas Academy Game
1/22/2009

The Covenant School, its board and administrators, regrets the incident of January 13 and the outcome of the game with the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team. It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community. The school and its representatives in no way support or condone the running up of a score against any team in any sport for any reason. The school’s board members, Head of School Kyle Queal and Athletic Director Brice Helton have acted to ensure that such an unfortunate incident can never happen again.

Covenant school officials have met with and personally apologized to Dallas Academy Headmaster Jim Richardson and Athletic Director Jeremy Civello and wish to extend their highest praise to each member of the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team for their strength, composure and fortitude in a game in which they clearly emerged the winner. Accordingly, The Covenant School has contacted TAPPS and is submitting a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss.

Kyle Queal
Head of School

Todd Doshier
Board Chair”

Grimes said he did not agree with the school’s apology and said “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.”
I'm a huge sports fan...but it's puzzling to me how our society pays schools millions of dollars in college football based upon what Bowl Game the are asked to play in and that they reach those Bowl Games by scoring as many points as they can on their opponent. This is ok because we are speaking of adult men with sports fans as spectators cheering on the next touchdown. However, it's not ok when it's kids with parents as spectators. This drives me nuts. Should the coach have ran up 100pts? Maybe not, but he shouldn't have been fired either. Our society thirves in "running up the score" in every aspect of life. What are we trying to teach the kids here? Don't run up the score when you're 13, you'll get plenty of chances to do that when you're 18. Craziness. I often wonder where our values as a whole really lie sometimes.
This coach, as I recall, is in charge of the team from a Christian school. They played against a team from a school that only has 20 girls enrolled in the whole school. And they ran up the score to 100-0.

Those of you who profess to be Christians, consider this: would you want your daughter to be under the "leadership" of a coach who would run up the score like that? Is that a part of the Christian values you want passed on to your child?
When I heard this discussed on the radio they didn't say it was two private Christian schools. They also didn't say that one of the schools only had 20 students. They didn't say that the school had apologized and were forfeiting the game. Typical media.

Anyone who knows anything about basketball will know that there is more to this story that needs to be known. To know who's to blame you need to know things like: Did the coach of the winning team play his subs and underclassman primarily once the game was decided? Did he leave the starters in a long time? Were they pressing, trapping, etc when the game was out of hand? Were they aggressively fouling or playing man defense with the score out of hand? Were they taunting and rubbing it in, or going about their business during the game with class and then being respectful after the game?

My point is that you can beat a severely outmatched team like a drum and it doesn't automatically mean that you were running up the score. I personally feel like if I'm up 50 or 60 to zero in the 3rd quarter, I'm putting every 8th grader on the team in the game and stalling to run the clock. There's no need at that point to keep running the floor. You still win convincingly but it doesn't look like you're trying to make yourself feel big by abusing someone who's clearly outmatched, and you don't risk injury to a starter.

If the coach was pressing or playing man and trapping, etc, with a huge lead then he was clearly trying to rub it in and it would violate the school's sportsmanship policy. Openly celebrating and jumping around at that point would also be construed as rubbing it in. Does that mean fire him? Only if he fights the school and proves unwilling to work within the guidelines he's been given. Otherwise there are ways to discipline short of firing.

And yes, I believe Christians in any coaching position or any job anywhere have an obligation to conduct themselves in ways that honor Christ. If they played sensible basketball and took measures to not drive it in the ground and still won 100-0, then so be it. You can't start scoring for the other team (well, you can, but you shouldn't). But sportsmanship has and always will have a place in the Christian life.
I work in the Special Ed class at school. And I sure don't think that is what this them that lost consists of...their may have been some students that had problems learning, but that doesn't mean they can't play sports. I think there are two problems here...one is that this team that scored 0 needs a new coach and the coach that had his team score a 100 needs to be out of there...come on guys, think how hard and how many times a team has to shoot to even score a 100 points! I say to these 20 girls that didn't score, get a new coach and give it 100% and to the team that scored 100, this wasn't your fault, it was your coach!

One more thing...I'm a proud Alabama fan!!!
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3 pointers are usually the lower percentage shots. But where did you see that?

The coach stated that he wouldn't apologize for "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."I will take him at his word until I see evidence to the contrary.


I don't doubt the girls did what they were told by their coach.

But let's look at some numbers. 100 pts - 4 quarters (typically at this level, and not very long ones). First quarter 25 - 0, second quarter 50-0. At this point, any coach with a sense of honor would have gone to the other coach and said, give us the win, let's turn off the score counter, and play the second half for fun.
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Originally posted by Ed@Bama:
This coach, as I recall, is in charge of the team from a Christian school. They played against a team from a school that only has 20 girls enrolled in the whole school. And they ran up the score to 100-0.

Those of you who profess to be Christians, consider this: would you want your daughter to be under the "leadership" of a coach who would run up the score like that? Is that a part of the Christian values you want passed on to your child?


Would you want your daughter to be under the leadership of a coach who does not encourage them to do their best, regardless of the opposing team? Is that a part of the values you want passed on to your child? Don't do your best, just go along to get along?
Yes, you are supposed to let up when the game is out of balance, its called sportsmanship and it should be a part of all sports on every level. Autumn1964 I don't think you have been personally involved in many sports have you? If for example you are shooting hoops with your six year old daughter and you are a adult would you block every shot she put up or would you let her get one off every now and then? I think you would let her get one off pretty often.
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Originally posted by Ed@Bama:
This coach, as I recall, is in charge of the team from a Christian school. They played against a team from a school that only has 20 girls enrolled in the whole school. And they ran up the score to 100-0.

Those of you who profess to be Christians, consider this: would you want your daughter to be under the "leadership" of a coach who would run up the score like that? Is that a part of the Christian values you want passed on to your child?


Would you want your daughter to be under the leadership of a coach who does not encourage them to do their best, regardless of the opposing team? Is that a part of the values you want passed on to your child? Don't do your best, just go along to get along?


There is a difference between doing your best and humiliating someone else.
I wonder, what would the reaction have been if the winning team had quickly scored 10 points and then not taken another shot, froze the ball the rest of the game and won 10 zip. There would be people complaining they didn't give the other team a chance to score by not letting them have the ball. Seems like you have a bunch of whinning t-ball parents that think the score probably shouldn't be kept. Hey, that's it, lets quit keeping score in all sporting events, get a bunch of 'judges' to decide who played the best and award them the victory.....oh wait, we already have that, it's called figure skating! And we all know haw badly that is rigged.
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Originally posted by im4uhonee:
I wonder, what would the reaction have been if the winning team had quickly scored 10 points and then not taken another shot, froze the ball the rest of the game and won 10 zip. There would be people complaining they didn't give the other team a chance to score by not letting them have the ball. Seems like you have a bunch of whinning t-ball parents that think the score probably shouldn't be kept. Hey, that's it, lets quit keeping score in all sporting events, get a bunch of 'judges' to decide who played the best and award them the victory.....oh wait, we already have that, it's called figure skating! And we all know haw badly that is rigged.


Did you read the article? Or are you one of those people that spend the entire game yelling at the referees?

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