Coach suspended for winning 92-4

season greetings wrote:

Coach suspended for winning 92-4. Is it really your fault if the other team is this bad?

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/school-apologizes-suspends-coach-winning-girls

It takes a special kind of stupid to think doing this to children is just part of the game.

+1

NachoLibre wrote:

professional jogger wrote:

Once the gun goes off, the coach is just background noise.

What a silly example.

Do you really think a race is the same as a basketball game?

In a XC race, the members of the winning team have the right to race each other.

The whole outrage is that some kids might feel bad about losing by such a wide margin. If the final score was a 40 point spread, this isn’t news.

The sweeping XC team is still crushing all the other team’s runners. With enough time to do a cooldown while the race is still going on.

How many minutes until this kicks in for running? What if one of the kids runs his cooldown with a broom in his hand?

Lets Run Snobs Have No Self Awareness.. wrote:

season greetings wrote:

Coach suspended for winning 92-4. Is it really your fault if the other team is this bad?

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/school-apologizes-suspends-coach-winning-girls

It takes a special kind of stupid to think doing this to children is just part of the game.

Sports are just an allegory for real life. Players need to understand that the business world won’t soft play if you are falling behind.

Mr. Slowpoke wrote:

Take No Prisoners wrote:

Classy. Really classy.

And some of us wonder why this current generation of young people are self-absorbed. Let’s teach these kids to score as many as you can against a significantly weaker opponent.

The game isn't over, until it's over. Have seen similar things in baseball where a high school team is up 15 after playing base to base exclusively and then reliever after reliever can't throw a strike and the team ends up coming back to win. Probably wished they had taken those extra bases on past balls, pressed for stolen bases, and ran out extra base hits!

The classy move would be for the weaker team to quit after half time and apologize for wasting everyone's time.

Thank you for not understanding a game with no time limit as compared to a game with a definitive time limit. Well done.

season greetings wrote:

NachoLibre wrote:

In a XC race, the members of the winning team have the right to race each other.

The whole outrage is that some kids might feel bad about losing by such a wide margin. If the final score was a 40 point spread, this isn’t news.

The sweeping XC team is still crushing all the other team’s runners. With enough time to do a cooldown while the race is still going on.

How many minutes until this kicks in for running? What if one of the kids runs his cooldown with a broom in his hand?

The different is that no one cares about XC and this won't make a headline. The outrage comes from the score headline, that's impossible in XC because there is no headlines.

fada tyme wrote:

Mr. Slowpoke wrote:

The game isn't over, until it's over. Have seen similar things in baseball where a high school team is up 15 after playing base to base exclusively and then reliever after reliever can't throw a strike and the team ends up coming back to win. Probably wished they had taken those extra bases on past balls, pressed for stolen bases, and ran out extra base hits!

The classy move would be for the weaker team to quit after half time and apologize for wasting everyone's time.

Thank you for not understanding a game with no time limit as compared to a game with a definitive time limit. Well done.

Also, in basketball, you can always put the starters back in the game if your third string starts getting outscored. You cannot do that in baseball.

season greetings wrote:

NachoLibre wrote:

In a XC race, the members of the winning team have the right to race each other.

The whole outrage is that some kids might feel bad about losing by such a wide margin. If the final score was a 40 point spread, this isn’t news.

The sweeping XC team is still crushing all the other team’s runners. With enough time to do a cooldown while the race is still going on.

How many minutes until this kicks in for running? What if one of the kids runs his cooldown with a broom in his hand?

In a XC race, it's not the runner-up that gets humiliated by the blowout. It's the last team/runner who gets humiliated. And the winning margin between the first and the second has no relevance for how far back the last place finisher is.

LOL at the people defending the coach. This is sportsmanship 101. It's not about protecting the losers, it's about teaching good character to the winners. Destroying a bunch of noobs doesn't mean you're "tough," it means you're insecure and lacking perspective.