Is this bullying? Should the coach have told his players to "ease up"? IMO, the coach should have substituted players sooner, giving even the end of the bench more playing time, but never, never, should players be told to do anything but their best. http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/f...-filed-after-lopsi?blockID=952985&feedID=3742 It's doubtful the link was ever intended for reporting a bullying incident following a lopsided football game. But according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that's what happened after Aledo's 91-0 thumping of Fort Worth Western Hills Friday night. The story says that a Western Hills parent filed a bullying report following the game. "I have to address it," Aledo head coach Tim Buchanan told the paper. "It's not something you can laugh off or anything like that. What they said was that I should've told my players to ease up and not play so hard."
football competition is fine... maybe the other team should just suck less.... now, I'm going to look for this info... I posted it on another forum about this. but the losing team has been beaten by 60+ points 4 times already this season the winning team PAID the smaller team to come and play them. As a football coach who's both been the payee, and the person paid.... thats done for numerous reasons.... 1. you bring in a smaller team for a garanteed victory during homecoming. 2. you give younger players on your team some quality field time 3. Your starters get a little live action "scrimmage" and 4. it's crowd pleasing. So why would you agree to play a bigger team not in your district....? The amount paid in Florida is around $4k -$6k. That pays for your season. The year my team was bought, we made the playoffs in our small school division. We weren't bad that year. But we got hammered. We sold it to the kids... "we're paying for our season. We do our best, we try to win.... if we don't... we still can win our district. This game doesn't count against us. The $$ we make pays for xxxx" the other thing I'm trying to find info on is the winning team only played their starters for 21 snaps, then backups were in. That's about 4-7 series.... it was probably enough points to get the clock on a running clock (football mercy rule.... the clock will run for everything except injuries) - - - Updated - - - everyone gets a trophy competitions are not competitions.
It boggles my mind that high school football teams are paid to play or pay someone to play them. Neither paying for an easy win nor accepting a humiliation for money seems to me to be teaching kids what they should be learning from sports. Is anybody asking what kids should be learning from sports programs and if the programs are successful in teaching that?
No and no. The only thing the coach should tell his team is not to expect every win to be so easy. Oh and to get used to the nanny cry baby nation trying to diminish their abilities.
I ref Youth Football and High School games in San Diego County. We see lopsided games every week, it is a very common occurrence. At the youth level they usually don't get too insane because after 4 scores or 28 points there is a running clock that only stops for quarters, half and time outs. Ussually it never gets too out of hand because time expires pretty quick when the clock is always running. The high school level has no such rule and dominate teams can continue to run up the score or manage the clock by throwing or going out of bounds etc. Most teams would never do this. From what I read of this event, they winning team wasn't passing the ball or trying to stop the clock on offense.. they were just that much more dominant even with the starters pulled. There are things referees due to speed up the game in the course of a blowout. For instance, every play near out of bounds we are going to run the clock regardless.. even though technically it should stop. From what I've read and heard from sports radio was that there wasn't really any bullying... the team was just a lot better even with backups.. and no one is going to tell the backups who don't get to play, once they finally get a shot to just take a knee on a play. Its just one of those tough situations where it is what it is. I heard today the complaint was withdrawn by the losing school. I think that was the right thing to do.
it's how small, new programs get money for their programs. We were a new school and took the payment because we needed uniforms.... and anon-existent (or new) booster program. Sometimes, you just want to make sure you win homecoming...
