Bullying complaint filed by a dad from the losing team in a high school football game.
Mods, on second thought, this may belong in the Game Room, sorry.
Well, I’ll start off by saying this: do not blame that game on the defense, OK?
I heard about this yesterday and was laughingly shocked to say the least.
I like the head coaches response, which was basically “I was putting in subs in the first period. I’m not ever going to tell a student he isn’t supposed to try! I could have put 150 points on the board” <-- not actual quotes; it’s my paraphrasing.
He put in subs after only 20 or so plays. I think the helicopter parent needs to sue his kids school for sending their kids out to slaughter.
From everything I’ve heard on the news around here, the Aledo coach did his damnedest to NOT run the score up overly much- took the starters out after 21 plays, kept the ball on the ground, etc…
Sometimes the other team folds so completely that even putting in the freshman team offense wouldn’t cause the rout to abate. This looks like one of those situations.
About the only thing the coach could have done would have been to play people so far out of position that they literally didn’t know what they were doing. Stuff like lining up your offensive linemen as wide receivers, quarterbacks as tackles, etc… and that’s also likely to get your people hurt.
If the opposing team is scoring on every third play, maybe the problem is not with them…
Sounds like they’re harassing the wrong coach.
+1
Sounds like the Aledo coach did all he could except tell his players to lie down on the field.
Also sounds like the popular definition of bullying is now “made someone feel bad.”
Do players on the college teams that play Baylor (65 ppg) and Oregon (58 ppg) get the same counseling opportunities?
Story here. The charge was against the coach of the winning team.
What the coach did do was use 2nd and 3rd string players, let the clock run out when he could have been running plays, and so on.
My title on this thread is a bit misleading - I don’t really feel outrage at all, just a kind of shoulder-slumping sadness for the son of this idiot. Also for all the kids who know what real bullying feels like.
Roddy
I’m seriously wondering if somebody half-jokingly (or drunkenly) filed the complaint on the district’s website and accidentally set the investigation process inexorably in motion. As the article says, state law would seem to prohibit dismissing a formal complaint out of hand (a good policy, given school authorities’ collective spotty history of turning a blind eye to bullying).
Interestingly, it appears to be the principal of the winning school (the accused bully’s boss) who is responsible for writing the report:
That should make interesting reading if it’s ever made public (although it may well be forever kept confidential to protect the “victim’s” identity).
I wonder how many girls the filer’s son has raped, and photographed it and put it on social media. (No, I’m not kidding.)
Apropos of nothing really, but my state high school activities association has what it called the Mercy Rule (PDF, on third page under “Review SDHSAA Football Rules”).
You should be.
The parent is bullying the coach for winning.
There should be a mercy rule.
Note that badminton players from three nations were disqualified when they did not play hard in the London Olympics. They were not playing hard so as to be placed against easier players in the next round, thereby giving them a better chance to make it to the finals.) I submit that in competition, players should play hard, and the rules should be set both to encourage hard play and to provide mercy, rather than to discourage hard play during competition.
Years ago, sportswriter Rick Telander was a defensive back for the Northwestern Wildcats. DUring their best season, in the late Sixties, they had a shot at a major bowl game. Then they played a game against USC, who beat them 49-0.
Remembering that game, Telander said, “Did we resent USC for running up the score. No- in the end, that score struck us as about right. USC was about 49 points better than us.” Same principle here- sometimes, the other team is about 91 points better than you.
Now, in my youth, I ws a terrible athlete. I was precisely the kind of kid that well-meaning adults have in mind when they make up rules about not running up the score, or when they start sports leagues where teams don’t keep score.
That’s how I know: the weaker kids KNOW exactly what the score is. Kids who suck at sports KNOW they suck, and there’s no way to hide it from them, even if you give them ALL trophies.
Yeah, we don’t have that here in Texas.
Exactly.
From here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/10/21/5264501/was-aledos-91-0-football-win-last.html#storylink=cpy
This is the part that ain’t right. These teams have no business playing each other. Aledo’s roster has twice that many players. Western Hills probably shouldn’t be a 4A team if they can’t field 60 kids.