11 Year Old Scores Too Many Touchdowns - Officials Ban Him From Scoring More

[zinfamous]

http://www.fox16.com/news/local/sto...h-Madre-Hill-Rule/i5OBaa1L8UaHQtcwPuKw9A.cspx

Why are we punishing this child's success?

this is not unusual, unless you are trying to invent your own history of scoring practices related to little league.

 

[JTsyo]

Welcome to america... where we dare no one to be great, but everyone to be average.

No child left behind.

 

[zinfamous]

The best solution is to push this kid up to the next age level.

yep.

though with football, depending on how they play at that age, there could be an issue with injuries, size and weight advantage, etc.

...didnt' see anything about this kid, maybe he's already a freak for his age?

 

[sactoking]

I thought we were teaching kids to give 100% all the time.....unless you are too good, then just give 50% or 0%.

That's the thing, nobody is telling the kid to not give 100%, they're just telling the coach to play some other kids in addition to playing this kid.

On the other hand, I can see the need for certain rules in 11-13 year old kids' sports. You want everyone to be able to enjoy playing and have a good experience. People take it so serious now like their kid is going to the NFL or something.

MFT. Americans are horrible enablers who pander to the <1% athletically then bitch and moan when those people grow up to be ugly human beings.

 

[Mo0o]

Should just graduate him to the next level of competition and see how he does there.

 

[SunnyD]

No child left behind.

Except that one... right there. He gets to sit on the bench.

 

[Fritzo]

Picture of father of that kid:

 

[bfdd]

There's a time for that and this ain't it necessarily.

IMO, at that age the point is not to run up the score for glory. Every kid should get to play, and nobody gets 'cut' from the team. The point is to teach the kids football, and a love for it and sports in general. And I think they should be mostly playing (as in having fun) at that age. The primary objective at this level is more developmental than competitive.

Later in JV and varsity more competition is appropriate. Making the cut and making 1st string etc.

Fern

Coaches run up the score for glory, not players. Yes we definitely should be teaching our children, especially at that age the beauty of competition and fair play. Like I said, you are ok holding back youths potential by backing things like this. You're saying you can only be so good, not any better. That's sad and totally wrong Fern. Condemn the coaches who aren't putting their other players in and giving them some time for scores being ran up, not the kids.

 

[waggy]

That's the thing, nobody is telling the kid to not give 100%, they're just telling the coach to play some other kids in addition to playing this kid.

i didn't see that they were not allowing other kids to play or keeping him on the field all the time. it just says whenver he touches the ball he scores. so he should only be allowed to play 2-4 snaps a game?

 

[KeithP]

All this is doing is teaching kids if they don't perform well, expect someone else to sacrifice for their benefit. I am guessing this idea started with our tax code.

There are important lessons in loosing just as there are in winning. In fact, probably even more important. If you have no hope in winning, you should still try and do your best. That isn't the message being sent here.

This kind of stuff is BS, pure and simple. When these kids become adults, they will expect the rest of the world to accomodate them because this is the kind of crap we filled their brains with as they grew up.

Pathetic x10.

-KeithP

 

[DrPizza]

Welcome to america... where we dare no one to be great, but everyone to be average.

I disagree - if you have one incredible player at that age, coaches just run up the score at the expense of anyone else on the team getting experience. Experience is incredibly important for developing players. And, at that age level, the disparity between players is due to two factors - skill AND development. The player who is simply bigger for his age doesn't gain skills of teamwork, etc., if you just make him a one man show. When the other kids catch up developmentally, you've already squandered the opportunity for those better kids to actually get much better.

Back when I coached youth soccer, I had a player like that - give him the ball and he could go from one end of the field to the other and score a goal - teammates not needed. He was also bigger than most of the other players, and faster. I limited him to 2 goals per game - any more, and he was benched. BUT, he was encouraged to help the other players score goals. He learned a lot more passing skills, his teammates learned a lot more skills, and we still won. Once that group of kids got to the high school level, they went on to a state championship. That doesn't sound average to me.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I disagree - if you have one incredible player at that age, coaches just run up the score at the expense of anyone else on the team getting experience. Experience is incredibly important for developing players. And, at that age level, the disparity between players is due to two factors - skill AND development. The player who is simply bigger for his age doesn't gain skills of teamwork, etc., if you just make him a one man show. When the other kids catch up developmentally, you've already squandered the opportunity for those better kids to actually get much better.

Back when I coached youth soccer, I had a player like that - give him the ball and he could go from one end of the field to the other and score a goal - teammates not needed. He was also bigger than most of the other players, and faster. I limited him to 2 goals per game - any more, and he was benched. BUT, he was encouraged to help the other players score goals. He learned a lot more passing skills, his teammates learned a lot more skills, and we still won. Once that group of kids got to the high school level, they went on to a state championship. That doesn't sound average to me.

Shhh you're not supposed to do what's reasonable. You're just supposed to do what makes you look/feel best and yell amerika! fuck yea!

 

[LikeLinus]

At 11 years old most kids are in 5th or 6th grade. 11 years olds playing pop warner or flag football should be given plenty of opportunity to learn how to play the game. That's rather hard when one person is dominant.

It's not like this is the pros, or even college, or even high school, or even middle school.

Wow, epic fail.

 

[slayer202]

you guys are idiots. if the kid is that good, he should be playing with other kids with more ability than the ones he plays with now. if he just scores a touchdown every play it ruins it for all the other kids. it's not about pussification or having silly rules so everything is a tie, it's just common sense...

 

[BrokenVisage]

Two words.

Pussification
America

9 syllables

 

[Wordplay]

yep.

though with football, depending on how they play at that age, there could be an issue with injuries, size and weight advantage, etc.

...didnt' see anything about this kid, maybe he's already a freak for his age?

He didn't seem bigger than any other kid he was going against. He is just faster than anyone of those kids. I do wonder if they have a league in that same age group that has better talent in it? Put him in a AAA league instead of a B league type of scenario.

At that age, they're just trying develop kids, to get them to play football etc. I can understand letting others play after he score his 3 touchdowns. I think at that age everybody should be playing anyway, no matter how good, or not, they are.

I don't see any "punishing".

Fern

But can you imagine the trash talk the losing side hears. Losing so bad that the opposing team has to start sitting players. Even at age 11 that hurts your pride.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Picture of father of that kid:

 

[sactoking]

From the source article, a few important points:

The rule in question is designed to get other kids involved
This particular player scored seven touchdowns in one game
The other 21 players become disengaged when this player scores to excess
When the player gets older and leagues get more competitive and less instructive, the rule doesn't exist

Huh, sounds like pretty much exactly what the reasonable people here have been espousing.

 

[MotionMan]

Between the 5th and 6th grade, our grammar school ran a Summer program that included some inter-school sports. One of the sports was flag football. Two buddies and I who played the defensive line figured out that if they lined up shoulder-to-shoulder with me behind them, they could open up a hole at the center and guard pretty much every time, allowing me unfettered access to the quarterback.

For the first few games we only ran the play when we really needed a sack, and it went pretty much unnoticed how successful the play was. However, in one game the QB started talking a little too much crap after scoring a TD, so we decided to teach him a lesson.

After the 9th consecutive sack (3 three-and-outs), we were forbidden from using the play.

In other words, this is not a new phenomenon.

MotionMan