Posted on 10/23/2013 7:31:10 AM PDT by massmike
A high school football coach in Texas was slapped with a formal bullying complaint after his team won 91-0 on Friday.
Aledo High School, the football team that put up a score you’d expect to see in a basketball game, has scored 77 points or more in their last four games. This is the first complaint that has been filed against head coach Tim Buchanan for his team’s blowout victories.
The dad of a player on the team that was blown out, Western Hills High School, claims Buchanan encouraged his players to bully their opponents by running up the score.
Buchanan is adamant that no bullying occurred in his team’s win. Not only did he pull his starters in the first quarter, his third string players were on the field when the clock ran out. After the first half was over, the officials began running a clock that didn’t stop unless a timeout or score occurred and in the fourth quarter, the officials used a continuous running clock, so the score could have reached triple digits.
Neither Buchanan or his team were happy over the victory. “We were just sitting there,” Buchanan said. “You’d have thought we got beat. I looked around and asked, ‘Is there anyone here that feels good?’” Buchanan says that while such victories aren’t anything he takes pleasure in, he can’t tell his kids to quit, either.
“I’m not gonna tell a kid that comes out here and practices six to seven hours a week trying to get ready for football games, ‘Hey, you can’t score a touchdown if you get in, you’re gonna have to take a knee,’ Buchanan said. “That may be the only touchdown that kid gets to score in his high school career.”
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It’s not about being prepared. The losing team may very well have been prepared, but just not good enough. Given the facts here, where the coach took out his starters in the first quarter, it doesn’t seem to be an issue.
But at the high school level, sports are about learning teamwork, sportsmanship, and fair play. At higher levels of sports, the story is different. But embarrassing your opponent by running up the score teaches the exact opposite of sportsmanship and fair play that should be goal at high school level. It’s not appropriate.
The losing coach could have forfeited at anytime. But quitting doesn’t build character. In life you learn more from losing than from winning. Mommy needs to shut up and let her boy be a man.
I don’t know if Texas has class football, but it seems to me that Aledo HS needs to play up a class or two.
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We do. Trouble is - we don’t have enough classes. We only go as high as 5A. Some states go to 6A. Not sure why Texas (check that - I know why Texas doesn’t) It’s the UIL baloney.
Anyhoo - we have two division within 5A - which further adds to the confusion.
Greetings from Houston, DFW.
Figures we are both Texans.....
The other made the choice to keep sending their players out onto the field after each touchdown against them, for all four quarters. They could have refused to receive the ball following each post-touchdown kick :)
Since when? High school football is becoming big business.
The Taiwanese had an 11-0 lead by the 4th inning. After Spain finished their at-bats scoreless in the bottom of the 4th, they called the game. There was a mercy rule in effect which ended the game with a 10 run lead. Since we are talking about kids, it seems like that should be the rule here. I'm not sure what the football equivalent is of a 10 run lead, but maybe 42 points ahead would be a good start.
I'm not faulting the winning coach. He did the right thing by putting in his third string and keeping the clock running, but there was a serious mismatch in the teams from the get-go.
The 1st string was taken out at the end of the 1st quarter. 17 different players handled the ball for Aledo.
Everything I've read and heard tells me that the winning coach did everything possible to minimize the scoring.
Nobody kills themsleves over missing a jump shot. It doesn't happen. Bullying is real, and it's awful. But this ain't it.
That's old school. Now you go whine to the government when you don't get your way.
Oklahoma State beat Savannah State 84-0 last season.
Agreed - the bench guys should have been out there long ago - and I have no idea if they were or not. And they bench should have been playing not as any courtesy to the other team, but rather that if you don't give those bench dudes some type of experience playing together in a game like that, then when they hell do they get some playing time? And once the second or third string is in - well it's not their job to lay down. They have an obligation to prove themselves.
You’re right about that, but I don’t think it’s appropriate.
You obviously never saw the movie, "The Best of Times."
True that...not bullying under ANY circumstances....even if it were classless running up the score....which it does not appear to be....it’s not bullying.
To say this cheapens the meaning of the term....
If you’re one point behind when the game ends, “what difference does it make!”
Just for the record, the coach for Aledo pulled his starters after only 21 plays! Also, Aledo is undefeated and has scored 60+ in several of those games!
He put in his second and third stringers for the remainder of the game! And they STILL put up 91 points.
Now the man who filed the complaint said that he would not have filed this complaint if he had known how soon the Aledo team had went to their 2nd and 3rd stringers.
Uh, ASK! You dumbass!
Instead of asking and trying to see if the other coach actually “ran up the score,” you got butt-hurt over your inability to explain to your kid that sometimes you will lose and sometimes you will lose BIG! Get up and try harder next time - PERIOD!
Why would I tell the second and third string, who won’t get many opportunities to play, to do anything but go out there and do their best?
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