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Bad Sportsmanship? Indiana Girls Basketball Team Blows Out Opponent 107-2

Dec. 12, 2012 9:50pm Jason Howerton

Bloomington South High School Blows Out Arlington High 107 2 in Girls Basketball Game

The scoreboard following Bloomington South’s victory (Twitter)

A brutal blowout in an Indiana girls basketball game has sparked a sportsmanship controversy. On Tuesday night, Bloomington South High School demolished Arlington High School 107-2.

The Indianapolis Star reports that Arlington made two single free throws in the second and third period — that was the extent of the school’s scoring. The rest of the night’s points went to Bloomington South as the team continued to pile on even after they had the game well in hand.

“I didn’t tell my girls to stop shooting because that would have been more embarrassing,” Bloomington South coach Larry Winters told the Star. “We were not trying to embarrass them or run up the score.”

Arlington head coach Ebony Jackson said Winters should have shown more sportsmanship and limited the scoring late in the game.

“No it’s not OK but he will have to live with that…If that’s how they want to carry themselves, that’s fine. I’m focused on me and mine and we’ll just keep going,” she told the Star.

Bloomington South High School (BSouthLadyHoops.com)

Yahoo! Sports has more details:

In the meantime, the criticism for Winters has been both fast and furious. As soon as the score was released on Twitter on Tuesday night by the Star’s high school sports scores feed it elicited a series of critiques. Some questioned how a score like 107-2 was even possible within the confines of a high school game. Others were more caustic toward the Bloomington South team and staff.

One Twitter user even offered the following assessment: “This is disgraceful & a blow 2the integrity of [Indiana high school basketball].”

Still, Jackson told the Star that she wasn’t upset with Winters for the sheer reason that she was more focused on helping her team move forward, which will be all the more difficult in the aftermath of such a crushing loss.

Was Bloomington South unsportsmanlike for running up the score 107-2 or were they just playing the game? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

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Comments (319)

noproblems
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:40pm
after reading the comments on this artice indicating that this is not bad sportsmanship made me finally realize that at least half of the people who comment hear are just plain stupid and I should not bother posting as I do not want to be associated with the Board.

Glenn should require an IQ to post here.
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- BrownBear
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:55pm
  …that’s right. Take your ball and go home.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:58pm
  Might I recomend the huffington post. Sounds right up your alley
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:06pm
  @NOPROBLEMS
  
  My favorite sports quote was made by Steve Spurrier when asked why he let his Florida Gators football team ‘run up’ the score on opponents.
  
  He said something to effect of:
  
  “It’s not my job to keep MY team from scoring!”
  
  ‘Nuff said.
  
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- afishfarted
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:11pm
  pppppppffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttt @noproblems
  You’re a prime example of the silliness that political correctness has given birth to. For cryin’ out loud, ya wimp. Show me ONE example that a humiliation like this has driven the looser to the proverbial gutter to suck on a bottle of Muscatel for the rest of his or her life. If anything, the loosing coach did nothing to help his girls self esteem. All he did was solidify the rediculous notion that ” loosing this bad shouldn’t be allowed. Bloomington is just a bunch of bullies”. Like loosing by 10 points is good?? Arlington sucked ! That’s life !!
  GET OVER IT
  
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- alicat2441
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:12pm
  I agree! Some of these comments are probably from the big, bad football boys who actually didn’t go any farther after they graduated. If they graduated highschool at all. I played girls soccer and situations like this would come up every year. Our team would be up 8-0 within 20 minutes and the our coach would switch us up. Defense would play offense. That’s sportsmanship! 107-2 is not no matter what anyone says. The thing I would like to know is if the winning coach played his bench after having a sizable lead. If he didn’t and kept the starters in I would be the first parent to pull my girl from that team.
  
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- Raging_Waters
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:13pm
  Yea! Those points should have been redistributed!!! How dare people try to excel at anything!!!
  
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- whitealaskan
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:17pm
  @no problems
  Why are you whining?
  It’s high school sports. After the first string puts up a good lead the second and third string gets to play. I loved it when that happened when I was a freshman, that meant I got to play more on varsity.
  What would your solution be no problems? You’ve whined on everybody’s comments about how they’ve never had kids before? Well what would you do with your kids? Make them feel like their good at something even when they’re not? If they chose to play the sport then they need to finish it out. Explain yourself. How is teaching them its ok to give up when their losing ok? And how is teaching the winning team that you need to stop playing when your ahead a good thing? If someone’s beating me in the buisness world should I expect them to slow down because its not fair that they are making more money than me? Should we pass an equal opportunity bill that limits how much companies can produce and how much money they can make so no body gets left behind? High school is about preparing for life, and learning how to have fun playing the game even when your team sucks.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:22pm
  @noproblems
  
  Bye bye ya leftist pansy.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:30pm
  Your comments seem to show your kids suck at sports and it bothers you big time cause you wanted them to be the best and they are not, so you can not live vicariously !
  
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- Michael
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:35pm
  there is a shot clock…they cant just pass the ball around the entire game.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:37pm
  noproblems “Glenn should require an IQ to post here”
  
  If he did we would never know your thoughts. Holding back is no different than throwing the game. That is not sportsmanship that is give everyone a trophy for showing up. If they were beat that badly they will be more motivated to get better. Or get out, leaving openings for people who may actually have skills. To me knowing someone let up on me is a greater insult than using me to mop up the floor. The greater the failure the greater the lesson. Even if the lesson is “hey I’m no good at this no matter how much I practice nor how hard I try”. The lesson would then be “I think I’ll go try something else which I may have an aptitude for”.
  
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- Buchanan16
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:37pm
  Oh the irony of the situation… Yes Noproblems, you’d probably fail that test due to the fact ‘hear’ and ‘here’ are two different things.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:38pm
  In short, “never give up, never surrender”.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:46pm
  Bad horsemanship =Not being able to stay on the horse.
  Bad sportsmanship =Not being able to score.
  Not being able to score=NOPROBLEMS
  
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- afishfarted
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:58pm
  Buchanan16 “…Noproblems, you’d probably fail that test due to the fact ‘hear’ and ‘here’ are two different things.”
  lmao. yup. Jethro dun flunked. lmao.
  
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- PaxInVeritate
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:11am
  Well played DR VEL.
  
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- SuperDiz
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:37am
  It’s spelled “here”.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:53am
  agreed no problems! totally agreed! is 70 to 2 really not good enough?
  
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- Talmid of Yeshua
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:09am
  LOL @ NoProblems. U mad? You must lose a lot at the things you do. Take your ball and go home Demoncrat.
  
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- SmokinEars
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:17am
  You are absolutely right noprob. What we have here is a bunch of mouth breathers who don’t get the definition of sport. This isn’t pro sports people! You morons are the reason that competition gets a bad name.
  
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- demsrtraitors
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:10am
  what’s your IQ , Einstein? or are you too stupid to know it?
  get a life. go vote for a democrat 2 or 3 more times.
  
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- Lone Ranger
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:44am
  NOPROBLEMS is right. After all, they’re only girls and we know that girls need to be given a break whenever possible. It’s not like they are REAL athletes. Pffft.
  
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- De-Elect
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:27am
  You’re funny.
  
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- dtrent387
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:34am
  you know in basketball their is a shot clock you have to take a shot after have possession for 20-30 seconds. it’s a competitive sport. you can’t stop the other team from scoring just because they are up by a lot and are better than their opponent. let them play. i’m sure this gave everyone on the team a chance to get some time on the court. not unsportsman like at all just playing the game
  
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- Patrickj28
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:46am
  OK. What would you have the team do? Take the ball, and politely sit down on the floor until the other team takes it, or the shot clock runs out? YES! That seems so much more sportsmanlike than playing the game like they are true competitors.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:09am
  Just looks like one team didn’t show up to play basketball. It sucks but that’s the way it goes. It is not up to a team to decide they have scored enough points. I would be more concerned as to why a team could only score two points and that was on free throws.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:53am
  The only bad sportsmanship is from those criticizing the winning team. A team has to play until the final buzzer sounds. It is not the fault of Bloomington South that they had the better players and coach.
  
  To pass the ball around and not shoot is a disservice to the players on the Bloomington team and does nothing to improve the play or the lesson the humiliation of the Arlington team. The Arlington coach should use this as a learning moment and look at his players and tactics.
  
  Personally, I would have rather lost trying to do my best until the very end than have the other team stop scoring because they were so far ahead.
  
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- Forward
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:19am
  First, let’s note that the Arlington coach is a SHE not a he. That is just reading the article. I expect that both coaches knew that a blowout was possible. I have had situations like that where I had the better team and situations where I didn’t. The only times the game got out of hand were when I didn’t talk to the other coach beforehand. We never lost a game we were supposed to win and we never won a game we were supposed to lose but we all had a better time playing because the coaches communicated beforehand.
  
  If, for example, Arlington was working on a particular offensive scheme, the opposing coach could have chosen a defense designed to counter a different threat and so give Arlington some room. This wouldn’t have changed the outcome but could have given both teams some needed practice on other aspects of their game.
  
  As it was, the game was a wasted opportunity for practice for somebody because the coaches didn’t communicate ahead of time in what was probably a well known mismatch. If one of the coaches reached out and the other didn’t respond there is one culprit, if neither one thought to contact the other they are both at fault. If they spoke and didn’t come up with a game plan that worked they were merely ineffective.
  
  I agree with those who say that it isn’t the job of the winning coach to stop his team from scoring, but both coaches have a responsibility to their players to use the game to their benefit. Sounds like that didn’t happen.
  
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- Steve
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:28am
  @No problems, don’t let the door hit you on the *** on the way out.
  
  what’s the winning coach to do? pull a player or two? you think the losers would feel better if they scored 10 points playing 5 on 3?
  
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- The Voice of Libertarian Reason
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:29am
  @alicat2441
  
  It doesn’t matter who the comments are from, or what their own sports experience is. The point of this article is that the winning team is being critisized for WINNING!
  
  When did success become a bad thing?
  
  And to address your concerns over who played in the game: The winning coach rotate all nine of his players into the game. Subing in four girls every 5 minutes or so.
  
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- Quagmir
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:31am
  @alicat2441
  8-0 in soccer is worse then 107-2 in basketball considering how many games go scoreless on one or both sides or just a single goal wins it. How dare you not let them even score once? Then you put defenders up front to score against an already heart broken goalie? You probably scored this poor girl for the rest of her life by giving 100% for 20 minutes.
  
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- ScoobyCheese
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:49am
  Wow. Apparently a lot of people here are ignorant of the game. For the record, Indiana high school basketball does NOT have a shot clock (http://www.nfhs.org/content.aspx?id=6881). High school sports are different than college or pro sports. For one, it’s not all about money. It is SUPPOSED to be all about the kids. It teaches discipline, work ethic, self esteem, SPORTSMANSHIP, how to lose, and, yes, how to win. It is character development as much as it is fun and competition (or it is supposed to be).
  Yes, it would be stupid to “redistribute” points to make a team “feel better.” But, for all of you whining about political correctness, why don’t we get rid of divisions and classifications in high school sports? Why don’t we let them play against college or pro teams? I mean, if they can’t handle it they are just “losers” or “pansies” or worse, “leftists,” right?
  Of course that would be stupid. People compete at different levels. And, if you are playing against a team that is obviously at a lower level than you, you don’t pound them into oblivion. There are PLENTY of ways to NOT score 107 points in a HIGH SCHOOL game without completely backing off. Don’t hit threes. On a fast break, don’t score immediately, but take the time to set up a play and practice running it. You don’t tell kids to stop scoring (that is insulting), but you can control HOW they score.
  It’s called sportsmanship, and it’s still supposed to be part of the game.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:07am
  Another great example of the benefits of Title 9…. competitive sports teams. Look high school sports are not rec leagues and it is clear that one of these teams should not be on the court nor have a team at all. In contrast we have community after community voting down tax levies and students at many high schools having to pay to participate on legitimate high school sports teams. No doubt these activity fees give the impression that every kid should play, even when their time would be better spent doing just about anything else.
  
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- Usa1Ing
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:08am
  Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to manage a game as the leaders and keep the score down? Should they have sat down in the middle of the court to burn the clock? You’re an idiot!
  
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- FLguy71
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:11am
  So why the heck didn’t the other team score more than 2 points? What is wrong with them? To me, that’s the question, not whether or not the other team should have kept playing. Of COURSE they should have kept playing, there is a shot clock!
  
  Now, one thing that might be considered is something that a few other sports have, which is a rule that if one team is ahead by a certain amount at a certain point, the game is called, though this is usually for intramural and off-league games. If my softball team was up 7-0 by the third inning, the game was called. Maybe if a basketball team is up by over 50 points at any point in a game’s third or fourth quarter, it could be called. Not a perfect solution by any stretch, but hey, the kids get to go home early and finish their homework, and we dont’ have any more stories like this to pass around on the ‘net. But seriousl, where the heck was the other team?!? 107-2?!?!?
  
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- Silvertruth
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:32am
  Has nothing to do with IQ.
  
  I have been on both sides of this problem. The simplest solution I’ve found is that once it’s realized the teams are badly mismatched, the coaches should’ve called a time-out and had a chat. The outcome being clearly pre-set, the coach on the winning side should put in his bench with instructions to practice fundamentals, passing and dribbling. Only allow for outside shots, no inside ones. Practice range shooting. The losing coach should agree not to come within 20 points of the other team and have his team practice basics and interception techniques. The need to get their inside shooting game going.
  
  If the losing team gets to within 20 points, the winning team is allowed to play regular ball again until the score is back beyond 26 points.
  
  Both teams learn from the game, even the losing team has to learn that they need to up their game significantly and the winners got in some good practice but learned to respect others.
  
  It’s not about the final score but about how we teach each other and learn from each other.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:29am
  We would if it were football.
  
  Before judging, I would want to know if the starters played the whole game and, if not, how much time was given to the bench players. If the second and third strings played the entire second half, well tough. Did the Knights substitute as well? Third stringers get to play very little play time – you can’t ask them to go easy. That’s not fair to them because they need the experience.
  
  If you just sit on the ball for the entire quarter – that’s not good, either. In order to satisfy the “don’t hurt their feelings” crowd, you have to not only let up, but you have to look like you didn’t – which will be good practice if any of them try a career at point shaving.
  
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- Dunedainn
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:32am
  @Silvertruth
  
  That’s not sportsmanship, that’s political correctness. Pull your head out, will you?
  
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- KevinFSU
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:14pm
  ALLICAT2441
  
  I am a coach of many sports for kids ( former collegiate FOOTBALL athlete) also finishing up coaching physiology classes. No matter what sport PSYCH class or great coach you talk to, they’ll tell you not to change a thing but your string. If you let up too much they could come back to win.
  
  You never want to teach your players to LET UP no matter what the score is or what position they are in (no never know how the game may change). Do you think it does anyone any good to put players in positions they dont play to compete? there are other things you can do to change the tempo of the game but not teach your team to EASE up ….like work on long shots, work on long passing, work on diff plays, etc.
  I would think letting up on a team is more embarrassing than letting that positioning team get over the adversity and compete no matter what ( that would mentally make them a stronger team).
  No matter what the game or score is looking like never let team ease up work on skills you may need later on.
  
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- red1
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:45pm
  I don’t consider this bad sportsmanship.. If I were on the team that only scored 2 points, I would have doubled my effort and been angry with the other team if they didn’t try their best.
  
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- gs425
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Take your 15th place trophy mentality where they celebrate losers.
  
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- DogWithoutSlippers
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Sometimes sportsmanship is being able to handle a devastating defeat. Back fifteen years ago I coached a summer boys high school lacrosse team. We arrived on a hot summer day with only nine players and a younger brother whom we suited up to make our ten. The other team had twenty five plus players who sneered at us beforehand smelling blood and a guaranteed victory. We rotated defense, midfielders, and attack lines throughout the game. The boys ran and played like the gods were with them. It wasn’t even close. The coach of the other team begged for mercy. None was given! All I know is that the players on both sides will never forget that day, my team for the sheer glory of staring defeat in the face and winning and the other team knowing that even overwhelming numbers do not guarantee victory.
  
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- GAdrummer86
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:42pm
  An IQ test demanded from a person who doesn’t know when to write “hear” or “here”.
  
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- churchill1945
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:47pm
  If you check the stats and previous scores for the Arlington team you’d see that they are pretty bad. They’ve preciously lost a game by the score of 77-16, and even forfeit a game by not showing up. They probably don’t average much more than 20 points per game (if that). Maybe they need a new coach. You can’t expect every team that they play to “take it easy” on them. I looked to see if the game stats were online, and they weren’t. I doubt that the winning coach didn’t empty their bench and let everyone play. Yes…the score was lopsided…but, should a coach tell the players not to play or not to score?
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:50pm
  @ No Problems, alicat2441, any other whiners on deck
  
  Got some really bad news for you. Real life is not fair. There, I said it. Condemn me for speaking the truth, if you dare.
  
  There are far too many people that believe that victory should be limited, or defeat should be assuaged, in the interest of sportsmanship (fairness by another name). These are often also the same people who cannot generate victories on their own or in team efforts for one reason or another. All too often, these are the people that ended up skunked in low-end jobs or unemployed in one fashion or another, not people of successes.
  
  I am of the school that people should learn they will get their arses handed to them from time to time, and learn it early and as frequently as needed. Defeat is a school by which you learn the hardest but most necessary lessons. A crushing defeat is more fuel to learn those lessons; if you become so demoralized that you quit, you lost long before your defeat and were simply pretending to be in it at that time.
  
  Failure is a real condition, but it is all inside your head. Correct the failures and do better next time.
  
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- stoptheliesbho
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:10pm
  it’s NOT bad sportmanship. what’s next? telling my kids they have to do less than their best on the SAT because the dumb kid next to them will “feel bad” if he earns a worse score? COME ON! it’s called competition. if you don’t like it, DON’T PLAY.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:23pm
  What in the world? How would it be bad sportsmanship? Normally you’re supposed to win by as wide a margin as you can… Even if that’s just one point.
  
  Methinks this is liberalism saying this — we can’t have winners and losers, etc.
  
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- chucketuna
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:22pm
  In college my rec league team lost 93-10. They did have us in full court press the whole time. There is a side of it that is ok. There are not a lot of teams that lose 93-10. We forgot an hour after it was over. It is not something to make a big deal about. That team will be in a similar position sometime, and the other team will not let off the throttle, and they will have to get over it.
  
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- moparguy626
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:55pm
  I just want to know if theIndiana team was playing their starters the entire game, if they were then I would say that was unsportsmanlike, however if they weren’t then I see no problem with it. If your only evidence is that the score was so obviously lopsided then I would like to tell you about a college football game where Tom Osborn, head coach for Nebraska was ripped apart by Bobby Bouden, of Florida State, for running up the score. Osborns’ response to Bouden was I was playing my water boy as quarter back. Osborns waterboy was listed on the roster as a 7th string qb. He was told to suite up at the end of the 1st quarter. I think it would have been worse if Indiana stopped playing. That would have been real unsportsmanlike.
  
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- baddham
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:58pm
  I’m as competitive as anyone, but agree this was bad sportsmanship. What I find worse than a poor loser is a poor winner. These high school games are, what, 40 or 48 minutes? There is no way that team could have scored 107 points without actually trying to do so.
  
  They didn’t have to stop scoring, but when on offense they could have slowed the game down, practice passing, practice different offenses, etc.
  
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- werlein
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:06pm
  I am old. but there was a very simple solution to this. The refs, at half time, should have called the coaches together and say “lets call it a game.” If even one says yes, call it a game and leave. Common sense should have intervened.
  If both say no, then let results be what ever happens and the two coaches share them.
  cheers
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:39pm
  Well Wah, Wah! Baby wants a Zima.
  
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- Nehemiah6.3
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:29pm
  What happens when all you people who think there needs to be no mercy get to heaven and have to face God. Who will be pleading for mercy then? the answer: ALL OF US!!!
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:37pm
  How can anyone have an opinion on whether this was good or bad sportsmanship just from the scoreline. If the coach kept his star players on the court for the full game, even when it was obvious that it was going to be a demolition, then I call bad sportsmanship. If, on the other hand, the coach used his entire bench and gave his lesser players more opportunity than they would normally get and it was still a blowout, then so be it, no one expects him to instruct the girls to throw it in their own hoop just to make a crap team feel good.
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:41pm
  If the words “mercy is for the weak….sweep the leg” came out of the coaches mouth, thats bad sportsmanship
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:15am
  “…SUNTZU
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:46pm
  Bad horsemanship =Not being able to stay on the horse.
  Bad sportsmanship =Not being able to score.
  Not being able to score=NOPROBLEMS…”
  ROFLMBO… too good, Sun! (I’ll bet this zings right over NOPROBLEMS’ head!)
  
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- UncleSal
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 11:35am
  “after reading the comments on this artice indicating that this is not bad sportsmanship made me finally realize that at least half of the people who comment hear are just plain stupid and I should not bother posting as I do not want to be associated with the Board.”
  
  This is a run-on sentence. The student gets an “F” for being ignorant of the rules of English and also for being ignorant about life in general.
  
  In this world there are winners and there are losers. Sometimes the there is a fine line between the two and sometimes there is a wide divide. It just so happens that this time there was a wide divide. maybe the girls on the losing side will learn a life lesson from the thrashing. If they don’t then they will continue to be losers. In real life, the person who finishes second finished as “First Loser.”
  
  I played football from 4th grade through college and rugby for 5 years after that. Iv’e been on championship teams and also teams that didn’t do so well. I’ve been on the winning end of thrashings and on the losing end of thrashings. I never had any remorse for the big wins nor did I throw a pity party after the big losses. Ya win some and ya lose some.
  
  It’s called “Life.”
  
  Get over it, NOPROBLEMS.
  
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BrownBear
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:38pm
The losing coach is embarrassing his team more by complaining. He should have taken it as a sign to help his team get better, and not shot his mouth off making excuses for them.

That said, the winning team should have taken the opportunity to let the 2nd and 3rd strings play. That way, ALL of their players could have shared in the victory and gotten some precious, real game-time to improve the entire team.

The fact that America thinks a blow-out is unfair and never should have happened, speaks volumes about the loathing of successful, hard-working and/or talented individuals.

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- Raging_Waters
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:28pm
  I believe the picture is of the winning team (Panthers). The losing team (Knights) had a female coach. Nevertheless, If anything, the Knights’ coach should have conceded once it was past the point of no return.(pun intended)
  
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- ScoobyCheese
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:03am
  107-2 is not a blowout – it is a humiliation. Do you know how hard it is to score 100 points in a high school game? Blowouts happen and are a part of sports. Losing by 40 or even 50 is humiliating enough and is a learning experience for both teams.
  Losing by 105 makes both teams look bad. One is bad enough to lose by that much, and the other lacks enough character to win by that much.
  
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- GABlueStarMom
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:59am
  Sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield. I took my son’s out of rec sports by the time they were 8 and put them on teams they actually had to tryout for and could be cut! No mandatory playing time either, you had to fight for your spot at every practice and game. When they got to the top of one level, they moved to a team where they needed to push harder. They learned to take a beating score wise and go harder the next practice to correct their mistakes and work on deficiencies, they also beat teams by incredible scores. Funny thing is that after the game while the parents might have “felt” embarrassed there was never any bad blood between the players. All this PC crap has led to mediocrity, false self esteem and an entitlement mentality!
  
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Noah_fing-whey
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:38pm
No one can say without seeing the game. If the starters are in running a full court scorched earth press the entire game a sense of decency says you back off. If the losers were 0-50 from the field…well they just suck. There’s too much we don’t know to have an opinion.

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- Ahochau
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:31am
  You’re right, there is too much we don’t know. Like how many of the 107 points came from the free throw line. I’m guessing the high school teams play every year. Is it possible that last time these teams met the blow out went the other way? Funny thing about high school sports, you have ups and you have downs. We had one coach in our league that had 2 years with some very gifted boys on the team. He left the starters in for all but the last 2 minutes of the games. Well the gifted class graduated. The result of this coaches actions:
  1) The kids that were coming up behind the gifted ones had 0 experience other than “garbage time” and thus were not able to compete when it was there turn.
  2) Every other coach in the league remembered, and it was their turn to dole out the thumpings.
  
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- Raging_Waters
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:38am
  Didn’t the Arizona Cardinals just lose against the Seattle Seahawks 0-58? I don’t recall their coach complaining that the Seahawks went too hard on them. It’s a little something called ‘gracefully acknowledging your teams faults’. I guess the female coach of the Knights thought otherwise…
  
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- ScoobyCheese
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:07am
  Raging Waters, that is a ridiculous comparison. Those are pro athletes who are paid to perform. The other are high school students who are still learning the game.
  And, if the score had been merely 0-58, we wouldn’t be discussing it.
  
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- ChappellGirl5
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Ahochau said: “I’m guessing the high school teams play every year. Is it possible that last time these teams met the blow out went the other way?” That’s a good point, we have 2 high schools in my home town & the cross-town rivalry is intense. Some years we had great teams that beat the enemy (11 in a row by the time I graduated), but then we came up against some years of having our heads handed to us on a platter. But we would have thought a lot less of the rival team if they went soft on us (even while we despise them for tromping us LOL) as I’m sure they would have felt about us. Our 2 universities in the state are the same way. For decades one university has beaten the other soundly, this year that winning team got their behinds kicked & it felt GOOOOOD to finally see it LOL.
  
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jeckelmyhyde
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:36pm
I think Arlington should be out recruiting a new coach.

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- M13
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:10pm
  Or after they scored 50 points, the socialist thing to do would be “tax” the team that was ahead 90 percent point tax and add that to the losers in the name of fairness. It would have been a close game .
  
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- Worldsapart
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:42am
  The California thing to do would be to make that “tax” retroactive.
  
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- andrew36
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:39am
  And a new team, seriously not one of there kids could shoot a basket from the field in the whole game.
  
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lessoneleg
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:36pm
This argument comes up every year in almost every sport. When should the Winning Side Team pull up and play “nice”. Well, actually they do in a sort of way. On the contrary, sometimes the losing team learns a lot more from an accomplished team but it doesn’t show up on the score board or the track, or the swimming pools.
Once and a while inferior teams are exposed, and the competitive team cannot help but to expose the weakness of the losing side. You cannot legislate prosperity. In some smaller school settings, you get good years of players, and we as coaches love those stories of Small School Comes UP BIG. Well, this is the opposite end of that story. Sometimes small schools get smoked because they just didn’t draw the quality of local talent to make it strong enough to be competitive. As they say, a small fish in a big pond sometimes leads to a feeding frenzy.
If the young ladies, played the game respectfully regardless of the score. A lesson is being taught to the losing side as well as the winning team. Learn your game, and the score will follow.

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- SCHEXbp
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:05am
  Not really. Scores LIKE THIS come up almost every year ALMOST ALWAYS in GIRL’S sports. You can’t hold the ball or take a knee here, like in football, & the shot clock is there, so maybe they could all take/fake half-court 3 pt. tries, I suppose, or double dribble over & over. This abominating of “sportsmanship” is becoming rampant – ALSO ALMOST ALWAYS in GIRL’S sports. There was an instance (one of many similar) of letting a INJURED & UNABLE TO COMPETE, but about to be the record holder pre-injury, walk (“be carried”) onto the basketball court unopposed – she could make a shot & get the new record – NOT what sports in about. There is WAY TOO MUCH of stopping the game to let the ball boy/manager/disabled kid “pretend” to be on the team so he can score a TD. Sports is NOT about PC tokenism, although it is getting there. Such lessons “learned” in high school are NOT used at a higher level (except in girls NCAA basketball). What’s next, striking out on purpose or failing to tag out a base stealer (injured & walking?) so that person can attain a new record? This does not appear in the Pros & very rarely at the highest level of NCAA sports, but here we go. It is supposed to be about REAL COMPETITIVE performance, not manufactured fake feel-good events.
  It’s goofy enough that Massachusetts (with no swimming team for boys), lets a boy onto the girls swimming team & now a BOY is the GIRLS’ State Champion in some swimming category. What is happening?
  
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rebelwuf
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:34pm
If the winning team didn’t cheat, STFU!

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- freedomnetworker
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:50pm
  i agree. I am sick and tired of changing red to purple for the feelings of people. I am tired of giving everyone a pass when they fail. you have to earn what you get.. that is all. if you fail you will learn from that failure. If you are not allowed to fail how will you ever know what is wrong or right?
  
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- 1947
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:58pm
  He’s only showing how Saul Alinsky would direct this team which is a lot like Obama is taking the American labor element. Just look at the points…….now you’re seeing how the Communist are working on the young people….. There was a time when the coach form out town would share in the disappointment……but not this coach…. I would find very hard to invite this team to play again…
  
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yougottabekidding
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:28pm
I guess Bloomington should have sat on the bench for a quarter, would that have been better?
Or should Bloomington have just run up and down the court and not touched the ball, occasionally kicking it out of bounds. Or Bloomington could have fouled them more so they got more free throws or got their players thrown out.
That really would help. Bloomington did nothing and we still lost.
Loosing is loosing I’d sooner loose knowing that I did my best against a superior opponent then loose knowing they pitied me and slacked off and still beat me. The coach is the loser he needs to retire

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kiwiburgerwithcheese
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:23pm
How ridicilous!…it’s bad sportsmanship to sandbag in a game and make it look closer than it is….we should be congratulating the team for creaming the other team….what’s all this nonsense of not wanting to hurt the other teams’ feelings….if the other team isn’t good enough then you aren’t doing any good making them believe they’re better than they are….not everyone gets to go to the olympics…get over it…if you can’t play one game try another…

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- noproblems
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:37pm
  you are also a moron or never had kids who played sports
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:22pm
  noproblems
  
  Guess who the moron is here !
  Let me get you a trophy for participating here. We wouldn’t want your precious feelings hurt
  I watched my kids loose big already and they went back and worked harder and won !
  But the trophies for being there got dumped !
  
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- Maxim Crux
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:25pm
  No problems The coaches are at fault…mainly the losing coach for agreeing to play a team that was far superior. My kid was on a losing teem once and they got a trophy for coming in second to last place. My daughter and I had more fun lighting that trophy on fire and then shooting it with a 22. Life is not fair…it is cruel and what better way to learn that than to have your ass handed to you on a platter. Guess what, she is not on a losing team anymore and she is far better than what she was after her lesson that losers do not get rewarded in real life.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:25pm
  @noproblems
  
  “you are also a moron or never had kids who played sports”
  
  If you have kids, you clearly coddle them and turned them into leftist pansies just like you. Maybe this will teach Arlington High to get better at basketball. Take your leftist drivel some place else.
  
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- GABlueStarMom
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
  @No Problems,
  
  I have 3 sons, all three student athletes. You are like the parents who talked trash behind my back when my son was the only freshman to make the Varsity Baseball Team. Gee, it couldn’t be he made the team because outside of mandatory practice he works on his own while their kids play XBox live, now could it? It would have been more FAIR if they put him on JV, right?
  
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- gs425
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Noproblem, Again, take your 15th place trophy mentality to where they celebrate losers and excoriate the successful. You are an embarrassment to the excellence of America.
  
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TheReasonableLib
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:21pm
Had I been the opposing coach it wouldn’t have got this far. The minute it was 50 to 2 I would have quietly told all the girls “Okay, don’t say anything, just when we come to a break go get your stuff and get on the bus because I think they’re about to 100 to 2 us.”

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- andrew36
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:43am
  Yeah thats the way, teach them to quit and run away when the going gets tough, exactly the thing we want out kids to learn.
  
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- ChappellGirl5
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:16pm
  I have to ask, what’s more humiliating? Getting beat by a superior team with an obviously superior coaching staff; having said superior team stop playing their best so your team can have their hands held like 5 year olds; or having your team sneak out the back door like cowards? I understand the winning team’s coach’s statement that it would have been more embarrassing to make his girls hold back suddenly, it would have highlighted the fact that the losing team couldn’t score without help from the winning team. However I also agree with some of the posts that suggested that the coach could have & probably should have put his bench warmers in the game. The article doesn’t say if he did that or not. If he’s a good enough coach even his bench warmers are strong, capable players.
  
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Turp33
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:20pm
What’s more sportsman like? Playing the game like it should be played or rolling over just so the team can “feel good” about themselves (when in reality it is more humiliating to play under a handicap)? I’m tired of hearing about youth sports becoming a place where kids learn to live by an “everyone wins” mentality. This is the UNITED STATES! You get equal opportunity not equal success. It is also a place where you are called to give 100% effort in everything you do. There will be winners and there will be losers. For the losers, it is all about what you do with the loss that counts.

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Homeschoolmama
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:17pm
Since when do you stop trying to score just because the other team sucks? How is this bad sportsmanship? Perhaps they should have just sat on the bench for the second half of the game and let the other team play alone for awhile to give them a chance catch up! I guess we should tell those girls to do their best and play their hardest unless the other team is really bad and then they should hold back and treat the other team like babies. You would never want a pro sports team to hold back and not play their best if the other team wasn’t as good. How about we do this with our military too? No no soldier, you can’t use your better training and equipment against this weaker country, that would be unsportsmanlike. Ridiculous!

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- noproblems
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:36pm
  you are either a moron or never had a child who played sports (or maybe you did but you are a jerk?)
  
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- BrownBear
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:54pm
  @NOPROBLEMS:
  
  If your kid is old enough to find the bathroom on his own, he’s old enough to handle defeat in a game.
  
  Protecting kids from life experiences does nothing but hurt them in the long run. You have to take the good with the bad & learn how to motivate yourself to be better. –Or at least learn to cope with the disappointment of lacking of a specific, natural-born talent.
  
  …and I tell my kid the same thing.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:27pm
  “you are either a moron or never had a child who played sports (or maybe you did but you are a jerk?)”
  
  Noproblems has problems. I feel for his/her children. I wonder if “Noproblems” would like us to give him/her a parting trophy for “participating” in the Blaze comment section…because, you know, everyone gets a trophy…we can’t have winners and losers.
  
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- Maxim Crux
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:28pm
  No problems, your kids are going to have a hard time in life with your philosophy.
  
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WINNEBAGOMAN
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:17pm
This is probably an example of poor sportsmanship, but it depends.

Was the losing team conceding possessions? Meaning, were they just letting the other team score layups because they gave up and didn’t know that walking off the court was an option?

Or was the winning coach, after being up by 50 (presumably) at half time telling his players to keep at it. As a former coach of 8th grade boys, you want your players to play hard all the time, but you also need to teach class. It IS possible to play hard and not run up a 105 point lead on an obviously inferior opponant. That would have been the better lesson for this coach to teach.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:44pm
  Ok I’m sorry but I call PC BS on your comments.
  It is only bad sportsmanship when you start rubbing it in verbally etc.
  Scoring is just that SCORING.
  You may have been a coach but I have owned a company for 19 years and if I did not learn how to pull up my big boy pants when I got wipped on a bid by my competitor than I would not just feel bad but my family would starve.
  A bad loss only makes you work harder and if you cant take a big loss in a damn ball game then you will never make it in the real world.
  Every a$$ kicking I have ever had made me sharpen my pencil and get to work figuring out how to win the next one.
  This is why we have kids growing up to be mall shooters etc. Because some bleeding heart told them they were special. New flash NO THEY AREN’T.
  When they hit the real world they spin out feel like they are getting screwed and then act out with anger and violence.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:54pm
  BTW
  I learn how to deal with loosing where?
  
  Playing sports as a kid. Loosing a position because I screwed the pooch. Getting up brushing off my knees getting over my self pitty and getting to work on my weak areas. This is called learning how to over come your loss, moving on and hopefully up.
  
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- Save.The.Republic
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:00pm
  OldSurfRat –
  AMEN!! I couldn’t have said it better myself.
  
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- WINNEBAGOMAN
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:52pm
  I hear what you’re saying. And your trying to turn this into some huge life lesson. 2 things.
  
  1.) Re-read what I said. I didn’t say to stop playing hard. Don’t lay down and let the other team score. Continue to play tough D and shut them out. That’s the goal. But then have some class. If the other team is going to stand and walk on defense and let your team make a layup line, then I totally get the outcome of the game. I had very talented kids on my teams. In the 3 years I coached I had 4 kids go on to Div 1 basketball programs after high-school. I had another 8 kids play at the Div 3 level. (12 college level players out of 30 kids) My boys could ball! And we could have put 100 point hurting on teams at times. Instead, after we got a 20 point lead we’d run a spread-flex offense, I’d make them make 5 passes before they could shoot, and shots had to be withing 12 feet. Typically I had 1 or 2 8th graders who could dunk and we’d work for that. It took time off the clock, taught my kids discipline, got all of them involved, and had a high reward (you should see a gym when a 14 year old kid dunks, wild) for executing that discipline.
  
  2.) I get what you’re saying about life lessons. This isn’t a business bid. It’s a girls high-school basketball game. You know… fun? Not EVERYTHING has to be about Obama or politics or affirmative action. I don’t think the losing team should get a trophy too. I just think my kids and the losing team got more out
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:45am
  WINN
  
  Fair enough. If I misunderstood than I stand corrected.
  However your first words were “This is probably an example of poor sportsmanship” and I disagaree.
  
  1) Maybe it would not be your choice of how to handle it but in no way was it poor sportsmanship unless the coach and players were in some way rubbing it in.
  
  2) its not middle school its high school and that is close enough to being an adult that they need to learn that sometimes you get the crap kicked out of you.
  
  3) Everything is a life lesson, even fun. Life lessons never stop until you die. We are always a work in progress.
  
  Have a Merry Christmas
  
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- WINNEBAGOMAN
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:37pm
  @ OLDSURFRAT: Good conversation. We don’t agree with each other 100%, but I believe we both understand each others positions. Thank you for the Merry Christmas, and I return the gesture-
  
  Merry Christmas!
  
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rabidtarg
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:16pm
Also note that the losing team had more fouls, haha. It’s not as if the victors were cheating or being vicious.

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rabidtarg
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:13pm
What? Are we to teach kids to not try in the name of fairness now?

It’s like the hypocrisy at the Olympics. Badminton players were thrown out for not trying their hardest in games (even though the tournament was set up so that it was advantageous to lose early round matches to get the gold), but the US basketball team was criticized for blowing out another team. So what are we now left to do? Do we try our hardest and get punished for it or deliberately keep ourselves from excelling? This is disgusting. The Arlington coach needs to re-evaluate her coaching methods, not get mad at the other coach and team.

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Snidely
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:12pm
It depends if they left the starters in the entire game. If the subs were in, then I don’t see a problem. You can’t tell the players not to try.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:25am
  Exactly, even if your team is winning, there is competition among people of the same team. They are cooperating & yet they are trying to show their stuff, Be all they can be. They want to improve their lot & become starters, get a Varsity letter. Varsity Letter are important in to getting into some institutions of higher learning.
  
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MDECKER
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:10pm
My gosh, don’t show this to Eic Holder, he’ll slap a suit on the winners! I would imagine this game was on a schedule. If the losers were so bad, they should have called ahead of time and forfeited.

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82dAirborne
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:10pm
If I were the coach, I’d have my team (the winning team) running laps the next day! They should have been able to get to 110 – 130…… It’s a game; there is a winning side & a losing side. Life’s tough and it tends to get tougher year by year.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:10pm
Coach Ebony Jackson
Try to man up why dont you. I mean really.
So your girls got their butts kicked.
It’s life. It happens. Where do you draw the line. Should the other team just walk off the court so your girls feel better about their poor preformance.

You are not doing these girls any favors by crying like a little girl over this loss. My god they are high school students not 7 year olds. College is just around the corner.

They need to know that some times you have bad days and sometimes you just plain suck. However those are the times that seperate the fighters from the quiters and make you strive harder to do better.

I dont know call me crazy but here’s a novel idea.
“Ok girls we had a bad night so we are going to have longer practice next week and work on our weak areas so this does not happen again. Now go get some rest and I’ll see you at practice”

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Psychosis
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:08pm
Still, Jackson told the Star that she wasn’t upset with Winters for the sheer reason that she was more focused on helping her team move forward,……..

perhaps you shouldnt move forward, but return to basics how the he.ll did the players qualify for the team in the first place????? affirmative action? or did you only let the nerds from home ec. play ?

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Leveraction3030
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:07pm
This is Booby Knight basketball country. What else did you expect. Thank goodness the coach did not throw a chair for allowing his girls to allow the opponent to score two points. As long as the other girls get a trophy at the end of the year they will be fine because they participated. Ahhhh the new liberal America.

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Stoic one
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:06pm
The purpose of this game is to put the ball in the basket as many times as possible and preventing the other team from doing the same; while following the rules established LONG before the game.

Hey sports fans did I miss anything?

The coach for the losing team is the one that should be chastised if anybody should be. May be the losers need to practice some more.

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Advection
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:06pm
Monty Python’s answer to bad sportsmanship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4DKLqnyBAQ

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:19pm
  Was it a Notre Dame coach that John Cleese learned that side line maneuver from?
  
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- Advection
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:35pm
  @R, I think it was the Saints.
  
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denkat56
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:01pm
Sounds like it’s time to go looking for a new coach.

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- C.A. Christopher
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:27pm
  You are right. Get a new coach for the losing team. What will the losing team learn if when they face a challenge they just wait for someone else to fix it?
  
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aproudinfidel
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:59pm
That is incredibly bad sportsmanship. Shame on the coach for that.

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- Psychosis
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:08pm
  not at all
  
  its the coaches fault for assembling a crappy team and an obvious failure of coaching
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:09pm
  May be the LOSERS should have conceded at half time? Should the winners shared the WEALTH of their points?
  
  IT IS A COMPETITION!
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:35am
  @ Stoic one
  
  May be the LOSERS should have conceded at half time? Should the winners shared the WEALTH of their points?
  
  IT IS A COMPETITION!
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  That team that earned the 107 points…..they didn’t build that. ;-)
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:16am
  Explain that to me in detail. Girl’s basketball brackets are always highly mismatched, and the good team didn’t have a choice in playing this team, they couldn’t simply un-schedule the game. You can only put in the last string and then you’re done with downgrades. Then there’s a shot clock. What do you suggest, the people who are superior at the game simply stand there and take penalties or make clearly bad shots in order to not hurt the feelings of those who cannot and should not be playing the game to begin with?
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Only three states have a shot clock in high school basketball and Indiana isn’t one of them.
  
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jungle J
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:58pm
girls are vicious….more every year..

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