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

Patranus

Patranus

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Malvern hasn't seen a football player like this for a long time.

"He is going to score almost every time he touches the ball," said Wilson Intermediate School Principal Terri Bryant.

At the young age of 11-years-old, Demias Jimerson reminds a lot of people of Razorback great Madre Hill.

"If you were looking at them you would say they were very much similar," said Darryl Baker, who coached Hill and now referees Jimerson's games. "I mean they both run really fast, good kids, run with the same style."

Like Jimerson, Hill attended Wilson Intermediate School and dominated the football field so thoroughly, the league invoked what came to be known as the Madre Hill Rule. Once Hill scored three touchdowns, if his team had a 14-point lead, officials banned him from scoring any more touchdowns. Now, for the first time since, the Wilson Intermediate Football League is using the Madre Hill rule again -- to tackle Demias Jimerson.
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Why are we punishing this child's success?
 
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.
 
When my brother was playing youth ball this came up once. They were destroying the other team like literally destroying, I think they scored 8 touchdowns to the other teams 0. They just stopped keeping score and actually had rules in place for the other team to get the ball on like their 30 so they could score. It was quite pathetic. I remember mercy rules when I played baseball. I think it was like an 11 run advantage though.

sactoking, learning to play the game is what practice is for. actual games are for implementing your practice. i have helped coach kids playing football at that age, you aren't doing them any favors by pussying the sport up. most resent it.
 
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When I played little league, there was a maximum of 5 runs per inning. After scoring 5 runs, the inning was over.
 
sactoking said:
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.
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6th grade is often middle school...
 
In Ottawa last year they set a rule in a youth soccer league that made any team that won by 4 points lose.
 
Also, this is tackle football right? So it's ok for the children to take physical punishment, but maybe hurting their emotional feelings is totally wrong? Fucking parents are idiots and we've been raising generation after generation of progressively more pussy citizens because of shit like this.
 
Patranus said:
Why are we punishing this child's success?
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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
 
NO problem. have him run and fall down at the 1 yard line and let other players run it in.

he should break away and then sit down at the 1 yard line. gets teh point across and stays in the rules.


oh..and a fucking stupid rule.
 
Fern said:
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
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Very true, but it is punishing the kid and the team. A solid player like that can do great things to elevate the entire teams play level. All depends on the coaching of the kid. It's a bad thing to hold back our youths talent just because it might offend others. This kid should be in the spot light, people should be trying to compete against him, not hold him back. I have to disagree with this Fern. We need to teach our children to be competitive, not assholes, but competitive and always try to best the next person. We've been taking that away for the last couple decades and look at the American people today. We're pathetic and apathetic.
 
waggy said:
NO problem. have him run and fall down at the 1 yard line and let other players run it in.

he should break away and then sit down at the 1 yard line. gets teh point across and stays in the rules.


oh..and a fucking stupid rule.
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Thread win
 
haha fucking sad.

no wonder kids are lazy and pussies now a days. they don't have to work for anything as kids.

if you are getting your ass kicked, it should push you to get better on defense. instead, they don't let the guy who is kicking your ass play anymore, to make you feel as though you are better on defense.

fucking pathetic.
 
bfdd said:
sactoking, learning to play the game is what practice is for. actual games are for implementing your practice. i have helped coach kids playing football at that age, you aren't doing them any favors by pussying the sport up. most resent it.
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Except everyone who's ever played a sport can tell you that practice is not the same as game time.

This isn't the "pussification" of sports or America; I speak from experience.

When I was younger I was a swimmer and I would participate on the local summer rec team as well as the regional year-round USS team. Since my birthday is in July when I swam rec I often swam an age group down (e.g. When I was 9 I was in the 7-8 group because I was 8 when the season started). For many years I wasn't very good: I didn't try, I was small, I was overweight, etc. Then when I was 10 I started taking it more seriously. I worked out very hard at my USS practices during the winter and it paid off when I went to the rec league. I swam 3 events and 2 relays at every rec meet that year (the league maximum) for a total of 60 races. That year I got 59 firsts and 1 second (getting out-touched after a bad turn). I took the high-point award at every invitational and at the championship meet. I set records that now, over 20 years later, still stand. I was so dominant that that offseason the rec league instituted a rule barring anyone that held a USS card in the prior 12 months from joining the rec teams.

I look back on it now and realize that that season couldn't have been very fun for anyone else in my age group.
 
Fern said:
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
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Very much this. At this age every kid should be getting PT. How much would it suck to want to play running back but be on this kid's team? You'd never get in the game. Hell, pop warner costs several hundred bucks, as a parent I'd be furious.

And yes, we all know that pretty much all youth coaches are assholes living vicariously through 8 year olds, so no typical pop warner coach is going to voluntarily pull this kid to ensure the "lesser" players get some playing time.
 
I played a roller hocky league when I was a kid, our team was undefeated and never had a point scored against us (or even a shot on goal I think). We were banned from ever being on the same team again.
 
purbeast0 said:
haha fucking sad.

no wonder kids are lazy and pussies now a days. they don't have to work for anything as kids.

if you are getting your ass kicked, it should push you to get better on defense. instead, they don't let the guy who is kicking your ass play anymore, to make you feel as though you are better on defense.

fucking pathetic.
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sactoking, no shit practice is different than game time, but practice is where you go to learn to play the game. you gain actual in game experience playing games. also don't assume i have no clue what i'm talking about, it is clearly the pussification of sports in America.

The shit you're talking about, I've seen it before. Remember the team I said I helped coach? My brothers youth team? They had got into nationals a few years in a row. The rules there were different though, kids could be 13 if they were slightly under weight. Now 13 yr olds who weigh 5 lbs less than 12 yr olds still have a whole YEAR WORTH OF EXPERIENCE. WAAH we didn't bitch and moan that it wasn't fair, we got the kids out there and they played their asses off and they lost, big deal. It was a learning experience, but they played hard and they didn't give up just because they were dealt a shitty hand.

Also, I completely agree with everyone getting a chance to play. Especially at the younger levels. Some kids will never be as good as others, they'll be weeded out as they go along, but you will never know unless you give them a chance in an actual game.
 
bfdd said:
Very true, but it is punishing the kid and the team. A solid player like that can do great things to elevate the entire teams play level. All depends on the coaching of the kid. It's a bad thing to hold back our youths talent just because it might offend others. This kid should be in the spot light, people should be trying to compete against him, not hold him back. I have to disagree with this Fern. We need to teach our children to be competitive, not assholes, but competitive and always try to best the next person. We've been taking that away for the last couple decades and look at the American people today. We're pathetic and apathetic.
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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
 
I thought we were teaching kids to give 100% all the time.....unless you are too good, then just give 50% or 0%.

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.
 
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