krby71 wrote:
Tarot wrote:
krby71 wrote:
Tarot, Covenant was playing all their players, they pulled their stars starting at 3:00 in the 1st.
Okay looking for information about HOW the game was played, since that's a huge issue of how both you and I are going to view this issue I think.
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Covenant, a contender for the state championship last year, held a 59-0 lead at the half in the mid-January game. According to reports, Covenant continued to shoot 3-pointers and employ a full-court press defense into the fourth quarter.
If true, I think we'd both agree what bullshit that is.
According to the coach on an interview in the local radio he said they stopped playing press defense in 3:00 into the first quarter and played a vanilla zone defense the rest of the game.
That's addressed and it's addressed by a local news source to you. See my previous post.
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It happened here, I live in Dallas, I have been hearing about it since the game happened. I rely on local sources. Here is the scoring breakdown by quarter: 35, 24, 29, 12.
Also addressed by a local news source to you (see previous post) and it bolsters the position that they did NOT pull back EXCEPT once they had scored 100 points in the 4th quarter. You see that 4th quarter score...where they scored only 12? Yeah, that's when they stopped.
So the scores match Lott's version of events, as well as the spectators, again ...local news coverage.
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I contend that it is douchebaggy that the coach lost his job over this yet the douchebag that scheduled Covenant for Dallas Academy remains free of blame.
I don't think you know how the leagues are done. You might want to look that up. I touched on it in one of my previous posts...but I only glossed over it. Again, just glossing over it: Some schools in a league will be WAY OUTCLASSED. It happens. We had schools that *never* won against my high school. My high school was almost always the undefeated champion in football, and won most divisions in other sports. There were teams that just suuuuuuucked. My husband is also a catholic school kid. His school was one of our rivals. He's 11 years ahead of me, and the schools that sucked in his day? They sucked in my day too.
But there's no other league for 'em. I suspect the same is true here.
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I do agree it is HOW the game was played. Did Covenant put forth an honest effort to win the game?
They had 100 points on the other team. Seriously get the fuck out 'did they try to win'...they were at no risk of losing. Clearly.
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Did they showboat, taunt, mock or otherwise gloat? Now, how would you feel if YOU were playing a softball game in which your team was so overmatched that the other team decided that it would only require one out to end their half inning and they would have their batters bat opposite handed and play the field with no gloves? You would probably still lose and feel worse because the team did not play their best, they were mocking you.
We're not talking about 'but they didn't do BAD BEHAVIOR X', that's absurd.
As far as hopping on one foot or anything else, I'm just going to go with...you never played team sports seriously. Either that or you're being completely disingenious. Or no offense, maybe you completely sucked at it (no shame there, some people do). I don't know, but most people I know who played sports all their life, they've faced a team like that. It just happens, whether it's little league or school. (Traveling teams you don't, it's closer to 'professional' in a lot of ways). Anyway it happens.
And you can minimize the destruction without being an asshole. I listed ways previously. You have people play different positions that they normally wouldn't get to play. You attempt plays you wouldn't normally use. You treat it like a scrimmage match, and use it as an opportunity to work on fundementals.
I played in GAMES where we were under rules, like you cannot shoot unless you have passed the ball three times to other players.
It's really not that difficult. It's not. It's not like you have to tell them 'okay go out there and play left handed' or anything ridiculous.
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Now I have not heard of any taunting, show-boating or whatnot just a team that went out to play a basketball game and played how it knew how to vs an overmatched opponent. It would have been that much more of a douchebag effort if they would have put forth an effort that mocked the other team.
No the coach went after getting 100 points. He got it. Then he let up. The scores show that clearly, so it's not just what other people there are saying they saw. The school looked into it and found it pretty fucked up. As I said, I'm sure they also watched the tape.
The guy isn't being fired for any of that though. Whether or not he should be...that's up to the school. But he's not fired for that. No he's fired for publically posting the opposite of the school's apology and saying he didn't care, he didn't believe there was anything wrong with it. And closing with 'if this gets me fired I'll still have my integrity' or some shit like that, so clearly he knew it would be an issue.
THAT got him fired.
And he's not even a teacher at the school, so it's not like he lost his main job or anything. Just fyi in case ppl didn't know. I'm not saying it's a nothing thing, clearly people who do it (because I'm sure it pays almost nothing being both a christian school AND a girls team) do it for the love of it. But it wasn't this guy's career or anything.