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Just saw that one of the coaches got fired, I'm going to guess it was the winning teams coach.
Bingo.
There's a reason (most) teams put their bench fodder on the floor if they are up 15+ in the fourth.
Just saw that one of the coaches got fired, I'm going to guess it was the winning teams coach.
I am ALL for running up the score.
The only reason I favor the Spurs sitting say Timmy and Manu and Tony when we are leading by a lot is so they can rest.
It has nothing to do with benefiting or befriending the other team.
If a team does not want the score run up on them, they need to make your shots and play defense. No mercy.
I'm sure the Dallas Academy appreciates all of the publicity Covenant is giving its basketball program by keeping this story in the news.
I saw this earlier and thought noting of it then I just notice that angel_luv posted it. I did a 2nd take to make sure it was not a troll like angel__lov
Did you see the part where it said Christian school?
Did the bf piss you off or something?
geez i would get bored
so these "special" kids... hahaha in' add and dyslexia? come on now! anyhow, these special kids couldn't score 1 lousy point?
i wonder how these kids do in school if they can't even learn how to play on the court? aside from that, how do you fire a coach who was doing his job? seems like a case you can't lose in court to me and if i was that coach that's exactly where i'd take this case to.
ps: learn to play the game or suffer the consequences but don't go crying because you got your ass whooped! and whooped bad at that! 100-0 hahahaha. i'm all for stepping on the throats of your opponent and never backing away not even for a second. it's not about being polite, it's about winning and when people realize this then we won't have so many damn pussies in this world.
No, my fiancee didn't.
I am very compe ive when it comes to sports. ( Maybe too much so?)
That is why I stick to being a spectator because my skills are not that, that I could win and win big.
I want the best players out on the court and that is certainly not me.
If these kids were challenged then what in the world were they doing in the same division as a school who can score 100 points?
And personally, if I had a disability, I would be insulted to know that people were playing down their skills when they competed against me.
My guess is that despite the obvious drop in skills from one team to the other, being a TAPPS school meant that they wanted the girls to play regardless of skill level. Now, it's been 15 years since I played HS sports, but when I did, the thing that was stressed above all else was sportsmanship and Christ, not scoring and records. That's why they would let this team play in a 'division' where they are obviously overmatched -- it is probably that or no division at all. People used to ultra-compe ve 5A schools and recruiting may not understand or agree with this, but I am willing to bet that as long as that school wants to field a team, they can go winless for 20 years and still be a part of TAPPS. At least, if things are still done the way they were when I was in HS.
at some point during practice.... did the coach not see the girls sucked?
c'mon gabby......(brick)
c'mon sara...(brick)
c'mon stacy (brick)
c'mon stacy again...(air ball)
oh man... try again gabby (brick)
sara get back in the game...pass the ball to gabby she's open.... no not me... to gabby!
(brick)
i mean jeeze... coach should have seen this coming.
Ahh, it makes perfect sense to me now. You reminded me of when my kids played soccer with the CYO. Our parish which had no school, volunteer parent coaches, and practiced once a week, competed against teams from parish schools, who had real coaches (teachers at least), and practiced 5 days/week during their gym period. Luckily our team was still pretty good, but damn, that CYO had the most fanatical, unsportsman-like parents that I have ever encountered in kid's sports!
Here's an update, addressing some of the points discussed here.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...t.40d72ee.html
The final score of the high school girls basketball game was 100-0, and his team had the nothing. Still, a week later, Dallas Academy Athletic Director Jeremy Civello was chalking up the game in the win column.
"My girls never quit," he said. "They played as hard as they could to the very end. They played with all their hearts at 70-nothing, 80-nothing and 100-nothing. I was really proud of them. That's what I told them after the game."
The game took place Jan. 13, on the road, against The Covenant School. Civello didn't expect his girls to win. He never really does. His girls haven't won a game in his four seasons at the White Rock Lake-area school, renowned for its work with students with a variety of learning problems. In most games, they haven't come close.
The Bulldogs play, Civello said, for more than the final score. They play in hope of improving skills, learning teamwork and picking up whatever life lessons athletics may bring.
But they won't be playing Covenant again this season; they canceled their Jan. 30 game against the team. After the game, Dallas Academy informed the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools that it was withdrawing its girls team from the league for the rest of the season.
"We just said, 'The with it,' " said Jim Richardson, Dallas Academy's headmaster.
Against Covenant, Dallas Academy was surprised to see an obviously superior team keep the pressure on until it scored its 100th point in the fourth quarter. "I'm sure they could have won by 30 points and still had just as good a time," Civello said.
Civello, as is his custom, didn't say anything to anyone from the opposing school after the game. He always allows for a cooling-down period. A week later, he has not been in contact with anyone from Covenant.
In a brief e-mail statement Wednesday evening, Covenant coach Micah Grimes called his team's 100-point total "unfortunate."
"It just happened, and we are not happy about that," Grimes 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 was not available for further comment.
Kyle Queal, head of school at Covenant, a North Dallas Christian school, was not at the game, but he said there have been internal discussions about it and that more are coming.
"It was poor judgment," Queal said. "I look at the box score and look at the box score, and it was not justified. It will never happen again."
Queal said he hopes his school will work "behind the scenes" with Dallas Academy to make sure the schools continue their "long-standing" relationship.
"I'll say this," Queal said of the Dallas Academy girls, "that was an amazing testimony to their tenacity and perseverance."
Edd Burleson, director of 236-member TAPPS, had a different description. He called the Class 2A, District 3 game an "embarrassing incident."
"Our motto is 'Compe ion With Honor,' " Burleson said. "I can't see how the one school can live up to that."
The box score that the Covenant head of school has been staring at reveals that his team scored 35 points in the first quarter before building a 59-0 lead at the half. The score after three quarters was 88-0.
"They are really good," Civello said. "Their point guard is terrific. This is what it came down to in the second half: steal at half court and layup. Steal and layup. Steal and layup. It was a layup drill. They finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left." Covenant's point guard had 48 points.
Dallas Academy is busy piecing together a new schedule of nonleague games. The school, which has final exams this week, played its final TAPPS game of the season Thursday night. The Bulldogs lost, 41-8, to Cambridge School of Dallas.
Cambridge Athletic Director Luke Yarbrough, the TAPPS district president, said he hired his basketball coach with the understanding "that it is possible to beat a team without attempting to demoralize it."
He said he could see the joy on the faces of the Dallas Academy girls when their team scored its points. He enjoyed the view. "I was so happy for those girls," he said.
Yarbrough said the 100-0 game will be among the first orders of business discussed when the district athletic directors meet next month.
Dallas Academy's Civello will be there. His school's boys team remains in the six-team TAPPS district. In fact, he was quick to point out that his boys, with a little extra motivation, beat Covenant, 50-38, immediately after the 100-0 girls game.
Then again, the boys team has about 120 students to choose from. There are about 20 girls in the high school. Some on the eight-girl team had never played before and will never play again.
"Most of these girls would never play on any other school in the state," he said. "But they can say they were high school varsity players here. And they can say it with a sense of achievement."
Later on the 100-0 night, Civello told his girls the life lesson they could take from their loss: "I told them someday they will be on top in a similar situation and they should remember how they felt when some people were cheering for a team to score a hundred points and shut us out. Hopefully, my girls all learned a lesson in sportsmanship that will last them a lifetime."
This isn't just limited to CYO, but I know where you are coming from. When my nephew played basketball through CYO, it was a disaster. The parents were ultra compe ive and it was like they were trying to win vicariously through their kids. It was no fun for anyone, and that was what it was supposed to be -- FUN.
Nice stuff, assuming it's true. They may be outscored by 100, but they obviously have a good, well-coached, basketball program."My girls never quit," he said. "They played as hard as they could to the very end. They played with all their hearts at 70-nothing, 80-nothing and 100-nothing. I was really proud of them. That's what I told them after the game."
The game took place Jan. 13, on the road, against The Covenant School. Civello didn't expect his girls to win. He never really does. His girls haven't won a game in his four seasons at the White Rock Lake-area school, renowned for its work with students with a variety of learning problems. In most games, they haven't come close.
The Bulldogs play, Civello said, for more than the final score. They play in hope of improving skills, learning teamwork and picking up whatever life lessons athletics may bring.
Yup, if that was me when they went up 30-0 I would have hit start and quit and find a new game.
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