Around here, it's pretty customary to keep the clock running in the 4th quarter when the margain reaches 25 pts. or more. Besides, as this "game" happened in a private school conference, I'm not sure whether or not it would have fallen under the jurisdiction of the state athletic association.

As for the coach of the team that won, while I don't think he should be fired, I do wish the school and/or league administration would require him to volunteer with the Special Olympics, or otherwise work with special needs kids. Maybe then he'd think twice about running up the score on learning disabled athletes.

The sad thing is, nothing substantive will likely be done, and we'll continue to periodically hear about these 80 or 90 point blowouts from across the country.:rolleyes:

This was one of the dumbest things Ive ever seen a coach do.Now grant it you play the game but this is stupid.And its really a slap in the face to NOW want to forfeit the game after it is over and the damage has been done just to try and justify it.Dont think so.The game should have been stopped at halftime or someone should have stepped in.

Perhaps this game should have never been scheduled in the first place. The story said the school only has 20 girls total. Shouldn't they be playing tiny church-run schools with similar enrollments? But that still doesn't give the winning coach the right to step on the throats of disabled girls.

In a strange kind of way, it may turnout to be a good thing that this game got so out of hand. Think about it, if the winning coach had called off the dogs at halftime, and won by a lot less than 100-0, this debacle wouldn't have gotten national attention.

When i was a Freshman in HS our Boys B-Ball in a county tourney game lost 127-26. So it could have been worse:icon_smile_blackeye

Why, today, are people so darn sensitive about the feelings of 17 y/o kids? Could this be the reason why our society has degenerated into the PC mess that it is?

100-0 is nothing compared to scores that have been seen in the past... Has any one thought about asking the coach of the losing team why he didn't pull his team off the field and forfeit at halftime? I've seen it happen, in fact I was in a game that it happened and nobody thought twice about it. That would have been the right thing to do... Don't blame the kids/coach for going out and playing their hardest.

I feel that what needs to be looked at is who really learned a life lesson from this?
It sure is'nt the winning team, they were supposed to win and win big. But pulling the loosing team of the court at any other time then till the final second had clicked off the clock would have been wrong. The loosing team did the right thing and stayed on the court and fought to the last second. Never give up no matter how unsurmountable the odds and fight on. Quiting teaches you on thing and that is, that its ok to be a quiter.

I'm not concerned about the "feelings" of the team that lost. They'll be fine. What does concern me is what allowing the team that won to run the score up teaches them about how you treat people.

Well, it looks like justice has been served.

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=904726

when i saw this score i thought the same thing as many other people, was 20-0, 40-0, 60-0 80-0 not good enough. at some point in time as a coach and as a player you realize that this team is not very good and probably will not score, that is point when you stall you try not to score every time you get a chance. i remember back when i was in high school my dad coached the girls jv team and they played one team that was so bad that this same thing happened but they kept it respectable at 27-0. he had about 4 girls on that team that had never played basketball before and they played that whole game. this was about the third game of the season to so these few girls did not have more than maybe a months worth of practice. not one starter played more than maybe 3 minutes that game. after the game the other coachs were not upset and even sent my dad a letter thanking him for not running the score up.

I was on the upside of a similiar incident back in 1978 on my 8th grade basketball team. Our coach didn't have us press when we had a huge lead so he handled it the best way he could until the clock ran out. We had a small team so clearing the bench was not really an option either. Mind you there was no 3 pointers back in 1978 either but we managed to win our first game of the year 88-12. Yes, 88 points for an 8th grade team. Then it happened again in our next game as we cruised to another lopsided win by the score of 72-19. Both those records still stand to this day. We did go on to an 11-1 record to win the conference. We ran a "run and gun" offense! :wink