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I guess if it was 50-0, they wouldnt need to say sorry
DALLAS — A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.
Now officials from the winning school say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.
In a statement Thursday on The Covenant School's Web site, the head of school said, "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened." He went on to say that Covenant has made "a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss."
Last week Covenant, a private Christian school in Dallas, defeated Dallas Academy 100-0. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.
A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
"I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off."
Dallas Academy coach Jeremy Civello told The Dallas Morning News that the game turned into a "layup drill," with the opposing team's guards waiting to steal the ball and drive to the basket. Covenant scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and "finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left," he said.
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become lopsided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, said Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.
"On a personal note, I told the coach of the losing team how much I admire their girls for continuing to compete against all odds," Burleson said. "They showed much more character than the coach that allowed that score to get out of hand. It's up to the coach to control the outcome."
Covenant coach Micah Grimes and head of school Kyle Queal did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
In the statement on the Covenant Web site, Queal said the game "does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to compe ion. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community."
Queal said school officials met with Dallas Academy officials to apologize and praised "each member of the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team for their strength, composure and for ude in a game in which they clearly emerged the winner." Civello said he appreciated the gesture and has accepted the apology "with no ill feelings."
At a shootaround Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity. They also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite.
"Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing," said Shelby Hyatt, a freshman on the team. "Keep trying, and it's going to be OK."
Peloza said the coach and other parents praised the Dallas Academy girls afterward for limiting Covenant to 12 points in the fourth quarter. She added that neither her daughter nor her teammates seemed to dwell on the loss.
"Somewhere during that game they got caught up in the moment," Peloza said of the Covenant players, fans and coaches. "Our girls just moved on. That's the happy part of the story."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481854,00.html
I guess if it was 50-0, they wouldnt need to say sorry
That's just ridiculous. Asking to forfeit the game later just adds insult to injury.
how do you not score? were they all blind?
and on top of that getting invited to a Mavs game
Exactly!and on top of that getting invited to a Mavs game
Not how Christians are supposed to act. Asking for a forfeit is also ridiculous. How about having the entire team raise money for that school by washing cars for a month.
You have to blame the Coach, not the girls.
No problem with the score; what's ridiculous was that they were running a full-court press during the entire game. Very poor demonstration of sportsmanship.
I agree, asking the forfeit just compounds the mistake.
Discussed ad nauseam here:
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115024
Kyle Queal = Giant Pussy.
If he really felt bad, he'd fire the numbnuts (probably himself) who allowed his school to play an obviously outgunned team.
not ONE basket? really?
not even ONE? in the whole game? not ONE?
"Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia."
I reckon there should be a new rule on ST - if you reply to a topic and have clearly not read the freaking article you get pinked.
Stop being lazy farking aresholes and READ.
I read the article, numb nut!
my point remains. my 2 little cousins could get 1 freaking basket.
by the way, ADD and dyslexia have nothing to do with being able to play some basketball. they aren't mentally re ed and belong in the special olympics. they just suck.
The students from both teams were done a great disservice by whichever coaches/school administers allowed these teams to compete in the same division.
I guess this will be a learning experience for the losing "learning differences" team. That people are assholes and not good sports.
They are in the same division for a reason and they don't go by winning and losing records.
What would Christ do? Perform a miracle of turning losers into winners?
Watch out for that "meek" team, it will inherit the league.
so they werent blind and still didn't score eh pretty sad"Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia."
I reckon there should be a new rule on ST - if you reply to a topic and have clearly not read the freaking article you get pinked.
Stop being lazy farking aresholes and READ.
exactly, they should be the ones forfeiting.
How about the other team play defense? Can you really tell the other team to stop scoring? Maybe if you're the coach you tell them to stop jacking 3s and nothing fancy... but you still execute your plays. What? Just let the shot clock expire on every play and not shoot? Kind of like in football if you have a massive lead, you just run the ball... but if they don't play defense and you get to the endzone... what do you do? Down it at the one yard line? Fumble on purpose? The fullcourt press was pretty tasteless.
you take out all of your starters and play your entire bench.
give them all the minutes. good practice for your bench
I agree with this 100%. But do you tell your bench to not score? You keep playing... maybe turn it down a bit, but you still play.
The "entire bench" is three players.
BTW the winning coach was fired:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...u.2781526.html
The Covenant School fired its girls basketball coach Sunday, the same day he posted a message on a youth basketball Web site saying he disagreed with school officials who had publicly apologized for the team's 100-0 victory over Dallas Academy.
In reporting the firing, Kyle Queal, Covenant's head of school, emphasized that former coach Micah Grimes "now only represents himself" when discussing the game, which has become a national talking point. Queal said he could not say whether the firing was a direct result of the posting and declined to answer any questions.
In a statement posted Sunday on www.flightbasketball.com, Grimes offered his first public comment since the story was first reported.
"I respectfully disagree with the apology, especially the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel 'embarrassed' or 'ashamed,' " part of the post says. "We played the game as it was meant to be played and would not intentionally run up the score on any opponent. Although a wide-margin victory is never evidence of compassion, my girls played with honor and integrity and showed respect to Dallas Academy."
Grimes also included the quarter-by-quarter scoring on his post: 35, 24, 29, 12.
At the end of his post on the Web site, which identifies him as co-founder of Flight Basketball, Grimes wrote, "So if I lose my job over these statements, I will walk away with my integrity."
Grimes did not teach or work at The Covenant School. He was in his fourth season as girls basketball coach, having built the program from a 2-19 record his first season to a state championship contender last season. Covenant, which plays larger out-of-district schools, is 6-3 this season and undefeated in its Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools district. It has informed TAPPS headquarters that it has chosen to forfeit the Dallas Academy game.
Grimes responded briefly to an e-mail request for an interview, indicating that he might speak at a future date.
On Thursday, Covenant posted a statement on its Web site that said it "regrets ... the outcome of the game with the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team. It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to compe ion." It was signed by Queal and Todd Doshier, chairman of the school's board of trustees.
That was also the day the national spotlight began focusing on the game, following a report in The Dallas Morning News on the 100-point shutout on Jan. 13.
Dallas Academy coaches and administrators say Covenant kept the pressure on until it reached 100 points midway through the fourth quarter.
Until Sunday, Grimes hadn't made any public comments since he e-mailed The News on Wednesday night. In that e-mail, which was also sent to Queal and athletic director Brice Helton, Grimes called scoring 100 points "unfortunate."
"It just happened," he wrote. "Please know Covenant intended no harm against them. I see this as a real learning opportunity, so we can prevent this from happening in the future."
Grimes said in his Sunday post that his team stopped applying full-court defensive pressure after the score reached 25-0 three minutes into the game, then dropped into a relatively benign zone defense and began resting its starters in favor of its three bench players.
Dallas Academy coach Andrew Lott agreed that Covenant stopped pressing at that point but returned with an alternate press later in the game.
"I am 100 percent sure," said Lott, who estimated that his team was able to take seven shots all game.
Dallas Academy, renowned for its work with students who have learning disabilities, is winless this season and has not won a game in at least four seasons.
"He's en led to his opinion," Lott said of Grimes' assessment of the game. "If you ask 10 people about it, you might get 10 different answers."
Lott said his team did not videotape the game, hosted by Covenant, but he is certain Covenant did.
"Maybe we could look at the tape," Lott said.
Cheryl Bugg, whose daughter is one of Covenant's top players, said she didn't want to talk about the firing.
She said the parents of the team's eight players met with school officials Saturday and outlined three goals for the program:
"We want to represent Christ with the highest respect, we don't want to humiliate anyone ever and we want our students to be enthusiastic in everything they do."
Let's break this down.
Covenant, which sounds like a perfectly normal and compe ive basketball team, ran up the score against a team of 8 girls with mental conditions by trapping them constantly then jacking up threes? And some of you don't see a problem with that?
I will usually agree that the other team should just man up and play defense, but this is obviously a special cir stance. And the 100-0 score is the perfect indicator of that. It sounds like they were obviously trying to run up the score, and it sounds like it obviously worked.
Agreed that forfeiting the game is adding fuel to the fire, though.
Looks like Dallas Academy will get their first win off of 0 points.
Keep playing hard, trying to score in every possession and stopping the other team to score on the other side. That's the best way of showing respect for a weaker opponent.
However, don't use a full-court pressure defence. Play a straight up 1on1, without traps, without going for steals - just force them to make contested shots, contest every shot. And don't play up-tempo, use the opportunity to polish the half-court offensive proficiency of your team. Practice your signature plays.
Executing the aforementioned procedures would be the correct way to handle the situation. It's the way I was taught and I fully believe it's the right thing to do.
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