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While its a huge defeat, its not like the kids will be forever traumatized by this. Its a football game. In life, you sometimes lose. That's reality. Taking loses builds character. You pick yourself up and try again. When I was a senior in HS, we lost every game. Big deal, its only a game. Our cross country team the year before was conference champs. Sports, win a lose, is a good preparation for life.
I think the parents bringing this to trial is going to do far more damage to these kids than losing 91-0. If there was no legal action it would have been reported on the local news and forgotten about, but now the whole nation, even the U.K. tabloids picked this story up opening up the flood gates of public ridicule of this kids parents, school, and teammates. If anything I think the winning coach should get a little pat on the back for at least trying to give them a chance.
Already this season, in Missouri, North Andrew beat Stewartsville, 86-0. In Nebraska, Silver Lake beat Maywood 79-0 and Walthill 82-6. Mountain Lake, Minnesota, has won a game 91-7 Nobody makes a fuss. In 6-man or 8-man football in rural areas, sometimes there are serious mismatches.
I never played football at HS but I did play rugby from the age of 9. We played the same schools every year and knew a lot of the kids from the other schools socially. Our objective was to crush the opposition and that was their objective too. Mercy wasn't on the agenda, we didn't do compassion either. It was up to other teams to stop us scoring not up to us to stop ourselves scoring. If they were poor at defense then that was their problem.
I agree with this.
My only criticism of the coach is his not knowing the league rule that the game could have ended early if both coaches agreed to it ... something that probably should have happened by halftime.
There were coaches on each side. Why blame the winning coach for not suggesting it?
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There were coaches on each side. Why blame the winning coach for not suggesting it?
