100-0: When Sports Brings out the Worst in People

A Dallas Christian High School’s girl’s basketball team beat another girl’s basketball team 100-0 last week.  100-0!   Sounds like some wonderful, wild, crazy, once-in-a-lifetime event that only sports can give us; something that the girls who won will remember fondly for a lifetime.

Except, the team that lost by 100 points is a team from a school where all the students have learning problems.

Classless.   Absolutely classless.   On so many levels.

What was the coach thinking?  Allowing the team to run up the score to 100?  Disgusting.  Oh, and don’t think for a minute that the 100 points were some happy coincidence that resulted from the winners not trying to run up the score.  The coach saw that 100 points were possible and went for it.   They kept full-court pressure on their opponents until they scored 100 points in the 4th quarter.  How Christian of this Christian High School. 

I won’t name either team, as the students don’t deserve the negative attention that the adults running the show have brought them.

This game was over in the first minute – actually, was over when it was added to the schedule – and all the coach of the “victorious” team needed to do was score a few points and then run out the clock.  Yes, that would have been one boring as hell game.  But maybe the players on the “winning” team would have actually learned something about grace, dignity, and victory with honor. 

In the wake of this catastrophe, the “winning” school is indicating that it wants to forfeit its victory, as “winning with out dignity is worse than losing” (their words).   A little late, assholes.

This coach should be shit-canned post haste; whoever scheduled the game should think long and hard about its wisdom and their priorities in life, about what they want to teach young girls who participate in athletics regarding citizenship. 

And someone should apologize to the girls – on BOTH teams – for putting them in such a classless, amoral and profoundly anti-sports situation.

Comments

[Jimmy Flowers]

I completely agree. I wonder if this is the result of making all the great sports kids play today "equal", as in there are no winners or losers, we're just happy to play. Some of the little leagues now have made it where you can't even get out. You hit the ball (or not) and run to first base and you're safe. What. Ever. So let some kids finally play to win for a change and put them up against a team with no shot, and look what happens. By making things "equal" so that little Jimmy doesn't get his feelings hurt, we've created a society that doesn't understand what it feels like to get beaten badly, therefore, the 'winners' in this case have no sense of the word 'grace'. I guess we didn't have the foresight to see what long term damage we were doing by protecting little Jimmy's feelings.

[Joe Moag]

Jimmy: Perhaps, but I think that this was a classic case - and a very old school syndrome - of a coach who has no idea what sportsmanship means and what school sports is supposed to be about. It was the coach who kept his players pressing for 4 quarters, it was the coach who ran the score up. Not the kids.

Either way, pretty damn shabby.

- Joe

[corrective_unconscious]

>"A Dallas Christian High School’s girl’s basketball team beat another girl’s basketball team 100-0 last week."

Looking on the bright side that implies pretty good athleticism on the part of the no doubt abstinence educated xstain girls' team. It's hard to dunk when you're four months pregnant, after all. Or so I've heard.

[JoeGoff]

FUBAR, is what the situation is but pressing the Christian part about the high school is stooping to a subpar level in believing that Christians aren't human and don't make mistakes. It always strikes me as weird when people hold some Christian based organization to a standard that they don't necessarily hold themselves to. I personally do not judge others by my standards unless they intentionally have decided to live by similar ones. Christianity is irrelevant in this situation and if you do not believe yourself to be a Christian or have similar moral convictions or approaches why bring it up. I bristle only because this article sounds like it is bashing/judging another portion of society, much like gays have been bashed for years. Whatever though cause it was still messed up what they did.

[Jimmy Flowers]

UPDATE:

Winning coach just got his ass fired. Unfortunately, he'll probably get hired by some Big 10 school that doesn't have a problem with a coach with zero dignity or honor. The big schools just want a winner, right?

[Joe Moag]

Indiana University

[tj]

I'm so totally unfazed by this. What else should one expect from Christians?