Precisely. I guarantee if the coach had taken some of the suggestion in this thread and made it obvious he was preventing scoring, we’d have an article about how insulting this coach was to his inferiors.
And how, exactly, did you come up with this number?
Their lack of discipline is sickening.
The entire concept of “running up the score” is idiotic. You’re basically telling players to make it look like they’re playing without actually playing. What’s the point?
If the losing coach really doesn’t want to get buried, the burden should be on him to concede the game, not on the winning coach to figure out convoluted ways to have his team pretend to play.
Sometimes competitors are mismatched. That’s life. It’s just a game. It’s not like it really matters.
You’re right, idiotically running up the score against a vastly inferior opponent isn’t actually playing.
Oh wait…
No, again, the point of tilting the field away from the better team is to make them play. To make it a little more of an athletic challenge, if not a competitive one.
The outcome doesn’t matter, the experience can. If it doesn’t… what’s the point?
The coach who lost 162-2 should be fired. I think it’s horrible that a team ran up a score like that, but, this losing coach clearly does not know what he’s doing.
Any coach has to work with the available talent. Even if non-existent.
The sole purpose of a sporting event is to do your best to score points within the rules. If you’re not doing that, there’s no point in being on the court.
If it’s that awful to score points against an inferior opponent, then you should just stop playing. Make a rule that some particular score or gap in the score automatically ends the game.
We play games precisely because they don’t matter. That’s the point of recreation.
I would have to watch the game to be sure, but you can’t tell me that there was any type of let up when a team puts up 162 points in a girls high school game.
It is instructive that the team was still shooting 3 point shots in the second half, with one player making 8 of 9. When you are up 100 points, maybe it is time to stop shooting 3s?
I don’t know the whole story and again I think it’s ridiculous that a coach would run up a score like that, but the losing coach could have at least used this game as a learning experiance. What the score tells me is that these losing girls played with no heart and probably gave up before the game even started. I just think this losing coach could have at least told his girls to put more effort in. Vince Lombardi once coached a basketball season without knowing a single thing about the sport, he ended up winning a championship. Granted Lombardi is a legend but this losing coach has no business whatsoever coaching.
Yeah, after halftime. The score at half was 104-1. Think maybe he could’ve done those a bit earlier?
UNLESS . . . . they were otherwise obligated, doesn’t the losing team administration have a responsibility to either a)NOT schedule the game against an obviously superior opponent or b)upon getting wind of the mis-matchup ahead of time, perhaps offer a forfeit or a scrimmage so the better team could still get their practice in?
I don’t think the winning teams coach should be suspended. The losing coach should be fired, and their basketball program seriously looked at in terms of who they play in the future.
What the hell kind of a team can only get 2 points? I’ve been thinking about this. I only played basketball when I had to, in gym, in 7th grade, which was 50 years ago, and I guarantee you that if I could put a team of my former 7th-grade teammates together, a bunch of old ladies basically, we could score more than 2 point off of practically anybody. We couldn’t WIN, but we could score more than 2 points. Maybe it would be 162 to 20, but it would be more than 2. That is ridiculous.
Who were these people? What the hell was their problem? Yes, their coach should definitely be fired. I cannot believe the other coach was suspended. It sounds like he knows what he’s doing, and the losing coach just completely doesn’t.
A couple of years ago my granddaughter was playing on a team that had just been formed and didn’t play well together at all, and they played a much better team. The score was uneven, but it was like 16 points uneven. They acknowledged that they were playing terrible (“like grandmothers”) and not working as a team, and yet the gap was not all that big. I just don’t even get it.
MaxPreps page for Bloomington.
Last 5 seasons
0-15 (current)
0-14
1-15
0-14
3-13
I’d say it’s an ongoing problem. It might be there’s little interest in basketball. They do play girls soccer in the winter.
Looked at the girls soccer team.
7-4-1
16-4-2
17-2-0
11-2-6
13-5-3
The last two games, they lost 48-8 and 49-8.
A little history.
You mention the Harlem Globetrotters. Years ago when they were just a normal traveling basketball team they were winning a game by 100-1. The audience was bored. So to keep interest they started doing some funny antics and the audience LOVED it. They laughed and quickly the Globetrotters realized they were onto something. From then on once they knew they had a game in the bag they developed some funny routines to keep everything interesting and thats why they are what they are today.
Side point - In college football many Division 1 teams, for the first game of the season, actually PAY what they think is an inferior opponent Division 2 team to come down and play so they can rack up a big score in front of a home crowd. Also gives them a chance to play their second string.
However it doesnt always work out that way. Once KU had brought down North Dakota and ND ended up winning.
I don’t think there’s much that the inferior team could offer in terms of prepping the stronger team for their tougher games. Running a full court press against them was probably too easy and didn’t offer enough of a challenge to help them hone the press. The better team should have put the scrubs in early, stopped the press, and took some air out of the ball (not like the Patriots, just take their time to shoot). Don’t know if they had a shot clock or not (high schools in my state don’t) but if they did, practice milking the clock to the max. There’s no excuse for running up the score like that, they should be ashamed of themselves.
Because lying to people by your actions is sooo ethical.
Not a chess player, I take it - there’s a point when you know you’ve lost where it is completely honourable to say “I resign” rather than drag out the drubbing for another 5 minutes. What isn’t honourable in chess is deliberately losing.