Highschool Basketball Coach Suspended For Winning by Too Much 92-4 (solution, high school)

[Jimmyp25]

An 88-point victory in a high school girls basketball game did not earn the winning team’s coach praise ... it got him suspended.

Sacred Heart Academy officials suspended coach Jason Kirck for one game after 92-4 demolition of Lyman Hall-Wallingford on Monday, the Hartford Courant reports. In addition, school president Sister Sheila O’Neill apologized for the lopsided score.


Al Carbone, commissioner of the Southern Connecticut Conference in which both schools belong, said it’s hoped the incident can be used as a chance learn about sportsmanship.


Looks like you cant win anymore.....



https://www.cleveland.com/nation/202...suspended.html

[FatBob96]

I have mixed feelings about things like this.

On one hand, it's bad sportsmanship to run up the score against an obviously outmatched opposing team.

On the other hand, firing him over it is kind of a douchebag move.

[Jimmyp25]

Originally Posted by FatBob96

I have mixed feelings about things like this.

On one hand, it's bad sportsmanship to run up the score against an obviously outmatched opposing team.

On the other hand, firing him over it is kind of a douchebag move.

Ok, so you are telling me that the coach should direct his players to pretend to not play and score... Whats the purpose of training a team then ?

My sons basketball team lost 13-56 against a REALLY good team... I didn't cry.. I just said , wow that other team is good and they are coached well...


We moved on. It is just a game.

[Jimmyp25]

Originally Posted by Redsoxrob

The team in question had 22 more points than both teams in your sons game, combined. These two games re not even close to being the same thing.

What do you expect them to do though? Do you want the coach to tell his team to lose? Why not just call the game then? That way nobody loses.

[Boss]

You can have your team pass the ball around until the clock runs out. Then play defense. A good coach recognizes training opportunities. This was one of those.

Coach missed 1 game.

[ottomobeale]

Simple solution. Up by 50. Game over.

Remember the Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School debacle from 2016? Guess they got clipped somehow and have a mediocre record now.

[FatBob96]

Originally Posted by Jimmyp25

Ok, so you are telling me that the coach should direct his players to pretend to not play and score... Whats the purpose of training a team then ?

My sons basketball team lost 13-56 against a REALLY good team... I didn't cry.. I just said , wow that other team is good and they are coached well...


We moved on. It is just a game.

The coach shouldn't have to.

If he and the parents were instilling values of good sportsmanship into the kids, they would ease up on their own without the coach telling them to.

There's a difference between telling them not to play and score and just humiliating the other team.




Still, I don't think he should have been fired for it.

[Daryl_G]

He was suspended for this:

It led, 80-0, after three quarters vs. Lyman Hall-Wallingford (0-5). Sacred Heart pulled its starters in the fourth quarter.

Why are your starters still in at 50-0, 60-0, 70-0? The game was over by half-time and the coach still had his starters on the court running up the score.

What does the coach get out of running the score up in high school girls basketball? That is the real question.

[Corrie22]

participation trophies all the way around

[Cape Cod Todd]

Suspended for winning to much?

Would he be fired for losing too much?



I thought they had stopped keeping scores at games so no ones feelings are hurt?



I think the best lesson to learn from this is sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.



I wonder if the coach would have been suspended if his girls team was filled with transgendered boys?