Girls BB coach suspended for running score

[Catsfan90]

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/01/16/california-girls-high-school-basketball-coach-suspended-after-161-2-victory/

Found this article and thought it was interesting.

The premise is that a girls high school basketball coach was suspended for running up the score on another local team in California. Anyone agree with this?

[Laker]

I don't agree with running up the score and I don't agree with suspending the coach. Is there a magic number that can't be reached? I can remember beating a conference team by sixty points in basketball and having every player in during the first quarter. Every player scored. We weren't pressing, they were just that bad.

Was there a state high league rule dealing with this? No. Did they suspend the game at halftime? No. Sounds like an ex post facto punishment to me. Should he have dropped the press earlier- yes. But it appears that all of his players played.

A lot of people commented on Ohio State scoring the last TD of the game against Oregon. Yet the same people said that Oregon probably would have done the same thing.

[FormerPokeCenter]

Should they implement the football and basketball equivalents of the "10-run rule?"

[Laker]

Should they implement the football and basketball equivalents of the "10-run rule?"

There is a running clock rule in basketball but I don't think that it kicks in until the 4th quarter. I think it starts when a team is ahead by 35.

Minnesota football used to have a mercy rule. Can't remember if that was 35 points too. That kicked in at halftime. A few coaches ran it up and thought that they were smart until the game got called off and their own subs hadn't played at all. Those parents were ticked off. They don't have that rule anymore. I think that there is a running clock too. Once we were up in the last game of the regular season- we were in the playoffs, the other team wasn't. It was raining and the refs asked if it was OK to do running time. My subs were already in and I said fine with me.

I just haven't observed this happening much my whole career. What goes around comes around. I just don't know how they pulled the two game suspension out of the air.

[dgtw]

I don't know if I'd like a mercy rule but a running clock is fine with me. I really can't explain why, however.

Running the press when up by 100 is not a nice thing to do.

[Smitty]

Honestly you can't tell your 2nd or 3rd string people to not play the game. This coach should not have been suspended.

[Catsfan90]

Honestly you can't tell your 2nd or 3rd string people to not play the game. This coach should not have been suspended.
I agree, it sends a bad message to the kids. Try your hardest..... But not to hard because it will upset the other team!

[OhioHen]

At least Bloomington HS made a couple of free throws to avoid the shutout.

[Catsfan90]

'I didn't expect them to be that bad'

- Michael Anderson

Best quote.

[JSUBison]

Wrong coach was suspended.

[OhioHen]

'I didn't expect them to be that bad'

- Michael Anderson

Best quote.


Wrong coach was suspended.

A firing might be more appropriate for the coach who could only coax 2 points out of his team.

[DSUrocks07]

A firing might be more appropriate for the coach who could only coax 2 points out of his team.
Yup he's (or she) getting paid for that result...

[Cocky]

Nothing is more embarrassing than a team letting up and making a fool of you. Play your hardest and beat me as bad as you can, have respect for the game and the participants.