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mtgrizrule

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America has officially gotten too soft. See this and comment http://www.thedenverchannel.com/web/kmgh/news/trending/91-0-blowout-at-texas-high-school-football-game-leads-to-bullying-complaint-against-coach" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
mtgrizrule said:
America has officially gotten too soft. See this and comment http://www.thedenverchannel.com/web/kmgh/news/trending/91-0-blowout-at-texas-high-school-football-game-leads-to-bullying-complaint-against-coach" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I read that a few days ago, sounds like they did everything they could to keep the score down, pulled the starters after 20 plays, ran the ball, what are they supposed to do intentionally fumble? They average something crazy like 75 a game, they're just that good.
 
Wow...just wow. If it really hurt her kid's feelings (which I'm guessing it didn't as much as the mom thought it did) she should just take him off the football team. Better yet, take him out of school because the chances of him not always getting a perfect score are pretty high. In fact, he is bound to face failure sometime in his life so might as well send Vernon Adams over to their place to put him out of his misery. :twisted:

In all seriousness, as a player, I was more pissed off when an opposing team did the kneel-downs than run an actual play. A loss was a loss but I liked fighting until the end and hated having that taken from me early.

The funny thing about this is that the parent is saying because the outcome was humiliating then it was bullying. So, is the parent a bully for creating national awareness of the beatdown through the media? Plus, she just gave her teenaged son the image of a mama's boy that always needs protecting. Now that's humiliating!
 
Yup. Stupid, absurd. The other team, knowing it was completely overmatched could have forfeited or could have asked officials the game be stopped at some point. There were options, and it's stupid to put this on the head coach. He did nothing wrong as far as I can tell.
 
I'm no medical or sports physiology expert, but my armchair opinion is that easing up or trying not to play hard is more dangerous and more likely to cause injury to participants than playing all out. The bullying complaint is a piece of crap, a microcosm of the cry baby, entitlement cancer that is slowly eating at the heart of this country. The only legitimate complaint would be to the governing body by asking it to adopt some sort of mercy rule. In football (and all sports for that matter) sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes you just plain get your butt whipped. Get over it. Learn from it. And stop whining.
 
Pussification of America's youth...When I was a kid it wasn't called bullying it was called life. You win you lose you get over it and you damn sure don't get whatever you want or throw a temper tantrum about it.
 
This was ridicules. My high school basketball team was horrid. We got beat a lot and sometimes pummeled. We all turned out ok. Failure builds character. Cowherd had a good rant on this story a couple days ago and basically made all the same points you all had. If they don't want to get beat so bad than play better or forfeit at some point in the game.
 
They only ran 32 plays...but he kept the starters in for 21 of those. :lol:

Probably could have gone to the bench a LIIIIIIIIIIIIITLE sooner, but whatever.
 
and there was a running clock which has happened in an allatoona game or 2 this year.. And the losing team in this non stoy didnt slow down the amount of times between plays. Also the losing coach and players didnt accuse of them running it up
 
In my short and unglamorous football career (hey I did start on varsity for 4 years), we actually had a year where we didn't score a point. Despite so much losing, and often in embarrassing fashion, I learned a lot and had a great time. Sure winning is nice but in sports it isn't everything and we learned a lot more by losing, especially when we lost big. If people lose the ability to lose with grace, all will be lost.
 
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