Posted on 11/07/2019 3:49:12 AM PST by Libloather
The football coach at Plainedge High School in Long Island, New York, has been suspended for one game. His crime? His team played too well.
According to Newsday, coach Rob Shaver was suspended after the Plainedge Red Devils beat the South Side High School Cyclones 61-13 in October. Shaver apparently broke a sportsmanship rule passed three years ago that was instituted to prevent “lopsided” wins.
The “lopsided-score committee” decided that Shaver didn’t take his starters out quickly enough when the Red Devils took a commanding lead, which is one of the ways a coach can avoid running up the score. He missed the last game of the Red Devils’ regular season due to his suspension.
Shaver, who has been coaching varsity football at Plainedge High School for more than 20 years, told Newsday that he doesn’t agree with the committee’s decision.
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Well what margin is SAFE?
If you’re the Jets, 61 to 13 going into the fourth quarter isn’t enough :)
YES I am a long suffering “fan”.
I see the problem: This locale has a frickin’ “lopsided score committee”.
Good gad.
When score ‘out of control’ the WORST thing they can do is put the subs in.
If I were a ‘sub’ the first thing I would want to do is impress the coach that I shouldn’t be a sub.
Coach has ‘no control’ over the subs, what is he going to do bench them?
At least with first team in he can threaten to bench them if they continue to run up the score.
ON THE OTHER HAND.....if you tell your team to ‘lay down’ ONCE, you are in danger of them doing it on their own because ‘you’ had said it was OK.
Then again, I believe it is politer leaving the toilet seat UP so the next person will at least be able to think the last guy hadn’t whizzed on the seat.
BUT there is always a chance one will whizz on the seat then raise it so you think he (or she) didn’t.
SOMETIMES ONE JUST DOESN’T KNOW....
They want to teach kids to feel guilty about success.
Wondering if the “lopsided score committee” is made of of parents whose kids are 2nd or 3rd stringers, or wannabes...
Instead they should have a mercy rule and end the game early. Other options are to go to a running clock after a certain margin has been exceeded.
The committee was made up of kids who got picked last for kickball and grew up to be on the lopsided score club.
I could see if he was running pass plays in the 4th quarter to
pad the score but if he was in a 4th quarter running game to run out the clock and end the misery, it should make no difference whether he was using his first string or second string to achieve the objective of running out the clock.He cannot help it if the opposing team had a bad running defense unless the committee expected him to play defense against himself
LOL. That would explain a lot.
Having said that ... they’re morons for suspending the coach, or even for making a big deal about it in public.
Seems to me losing a hard fought fight would feel a whole lot less humiliating than being condescended to....
But what do I know. I’m just a chick.
Heading to T-ball rules. All tie games.
They may grow up to be mass murderers.
And Epstein didn't kill himself
True. But sometimes you end up in these situations where you have two teams competing that really don’t belong on the same field. There’s no easy way for that to end without humiliation, condescension, or both.
They were playing a team that was undefeated.
Occam’s Razor:
“Play fairly but now you are playing too well, don’t play anymore for the rest of the game?’ Where’s the life lessons”
The libtard lesson is, “Don’t be all you can be”...or something.
4th quarter, I'm kneeling on every play on offense (after running max allowed time). Then, I'll punt. My defense will just stand there 15 yards off the ball and watch you run by for a touchdown. Repeat.
In other words, I'll "play fair" by your stupid rules, but I'm going to humiliate you in the process.
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