High school football coach suspended after blowing out another team..

[xboxist]

Suspend the losing coach for doing a sh*tty job. Also, expel the students on that suckass team for letting themselves get embarrassed.

 

[sovalon]

I applaud the coach for doing what he did. As a former high school football 2nd stringer, you always waited for your chance to play. And when it comes take advantage. It's not the coaches fault that their 3rd stringers are good, or that the other team is that horribly bad, he wants his kids to play.

I also disagree with topslop1, the coaches do care about all of thier players. They may care more about their starters, but in the end, if your 2nd and 3rd string players gets hurt, they need someone to fill in. Backups are feinately an important part of the game and are not overlooked.

 

[Ricochet]

This may have been mentioned earlier. How about implementing a much much simpler rule: if a team is up by 50 points the game is automatically over.

 

[miniMUNCH]

All worship the gods of political correctness...

Oh my Fvck.

I could understand a rule like that in pop warner...little kids can have fragile emotions / sense -of-self.

But in HS...it is time to get ready for the real world. That means real competition... kids and parents just need to learn to handle it.

 

[eits]

good for him... it's high school football... it's not like they're a bunch of 6-year-olds who need trophies for losing.

if you're in high school and you've got a sweet football team, you show it. you get that scholarship for your players.

what a retarded rule... seriously. i'd take a suspension for that stupid-ass rule, too. if my team could blow out another team by 50+ points, do i really need to be present for the next game?

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
They need to make the rule prohibiting losing by more than 50 points. Don't walk out on the field if you're not prepared.

haha seriously... if your team sucks so much ass, don't even get off the bus.

the rule should be changed to:

RULE #182: If a team loses by 50 or more points, the entire team will be suspended for the next game for wasting everyone's time.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: everman
Not this again... What are they supposed to do, stop playing and let the other team score?

I suppose the losing team will now be scarred for life due to their humiliating loss, they'll need years of therapy and may never play sports again. If only they lost by 49 points, then they would have been fine, disaster averted.

hahaha exactly... being a teenager is just THAT tender of an age, apparently.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
they should just do away with scores and give everyone a trophy!

God forbid we hurt any of these kids' precious self-esteem...

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Syringer
That said though, he did know of the rule, and as dumb as it may be he knew he'd have to face the consequences of it..

Yup, he knew the rule. I wonder at what point he put his third string guys in?

The rule was a stupid one. It was never justified in the first place. This country is getting lame with the whole "everyone should be equal" trend.

Someday there will be a rule were the game has to end in a tie, and the winning team must nurture the losing team or some crap like that.

That said, he's a creep for beating down a losing team. Good manners and respect shouldn't have to be legislated.

 

[chambersc]

Liberal yuppy states and their "omg, we have to protect the children!" laws. .....

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Since when did the UN start making rules for high school football?

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: chambersc
Liberal yuppy states and their "omg, we have to protect the children!" laws. .....

:thumbsup:

Obligatory "what is the world coming to?" comment, as well.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: moshquerade
the pussification continues. . .

Apparently, you don't even begin to understand the defintion of a real man. Real men do not continue to pound on the obviously helpless, nor do they condone teaching or allowing their teenaged sons to do so.

50-0 is no longer a game, by any civilized defintion thereof. You have only to watch one to know. Guess you haven't. :|

awww poor baby. mommy and daddy still bail you out when you get into trouble?
some of us face life head on and take what it throws at us without crying that someone make it all better.

real men, bah. real men would work harder and gather up more determination and guts so they don't get their ass whooped that badly next time. that's a real man.

i've played sports Mr. Perknose, and i wouldnt want the opposing team to baby us cause we sucked! in fact, i'd be insulted if they intentionally struck out because their score against us had gotten "too high".

Agreed. I do think that the rule is a good rule, to force more sportsmanlike conduct on the field, however, due process should also be followed. In this particular case, the coach appears to have done what he could to not run the score up. No suspension is warranted. Had it been the case that the coach wanted 2 of his players to set league rushing records or passing records, or something like that, and they ran up the score simply to accomplish that goal, then by all means, suspend him.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Ah, furthering the 'wussification of America' one bleeding hearted rule/law at a time.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Syringer
That said though, he did know of the rule, and as dumb as it may be he knew he'd have to face the consequences of it..

Yup, he knew the rule. I wonder at what point he put his third string guys in?

The rule was a stupid one. It was never justified in the first place. This country is getting lame with the whole "everyone should be equal" trend.

Someday there will be a rule were the game has to end in a tie, and the winning team must nurture the losing team or some crap like that.

That said, he's a creep for beating down a losing team. Good manners and respect shouldn't have to be legislated.

Your first two comments make sense. The third not so much. Pulling starters after the first quarter != beating down the other team. Was he supposed to put in the tennis team or the cheerleading squad?

It's the other team's job not to suck. There should be a new rule that if you lose by more than fifty, you have to wear pink jerseys the next week that say "pansy" on the back. That should get them motivated.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: chuckywang
So you want him to tell his players to quit scoring?

Running up the score in a blowout IS considered bad sportsmanship. He could teach his kids something about that maybe.

He was playing his third string players. The coach was doing everything he could to not try to run up the score if he's playing his third string.

Then he has nothing to worry about:

It will be up to the three-person panel to decide whether Cadelina should be suspended, but Mosa said that Cadelina?s efforts to keep the score down would be considered.

That panel understands the intent of the rule. If he put his 2nd and 3rd string guys in when it was apparant they had won (like 28-0 or 21-0), I think he'll be fine. If he put them in when the score was 49-0, then he wasn't acting in a very sportsman-like way.

Edit: Nevermind, someone already posted that the score was at most 35-0 when he started putting his 2nd and 3rd stringers in.

They only managed to score once in the second half, so I wonder he much of the first half he was playing his 3rd stringers though.

28-0 definitely does not mean that the game is over.

During my Junior year of HS, my school's football team was down 29-0 in the 3rd quarter of a game. We scored 29 unanswered points to tie the game.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Syringer
That said though, he did know of the rule, and as dumb as it may be he knew he'd have to face the consequences of it..

Yup, he knew the rule. I wonder at what point he put his third string guys in?

The rule was a stupid one. It was never justified in the first place. This country is getting lame with the whole "everyone should be equal" trend.

Someday there will be a rule were the game has to end in a tie, and the winning team must nurture the losing team or some crap like that.

That said, he's a creep for beating down a losing team. Good manners and respect shouldn't have to be legislated.

I think he did a very good job. He didn't intentionally run up the score....you can't tell your kids not to try.

 

[saahmed]

Why do they make these dumb rules. I would say it is a justified rule for younger age groups. But in high school? By that time you should be learning that life isnt always easy and people arent just going to lay down for you.

 

[The Raven]

I wonder if these people have heard of a called game.

I say it's the ref's fault. This coach should not have to tell the kids to stop trying and neither should the other coach have to throw in the towel. A rule is a rule and the last time I checked, the REF (not the school board) is in charge of enforcement/execution of the rules.

I mean really people, don't make an already over-officialized game get even lamer.

 

[Regs]

Ok, they make a 50 point rule (which likely could never be enforced) and they still won't pass a weight limit rule for HS players?

I'm sorry, but I don't think coaches should be telling their worst atheltic players (like line backers) to be 330LBS+ to have a better chance to play for a college team. 16-year-olds should not weight 300LBS!!

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Regs
Ok, they make a 50 point rule (which likely could never be enforced) and they still won't pass a weight limit rule for HS players?

I'm sorry, but I don't think coaches should be telling their worst atheltic players (like line backers) to be 330LBS+ to have a better chance to play for a college team. 16-year-olds should not weight 300LBS!!

Originally posted by: The Raven
I wonder if these people have heard of a called game.

I say it's the ref's fault. This coach should not have to tell the kids to stop trying and neither should the other coach have to throw in the towel. A rule is a rule and the last time I checked, the REF (not the school board) is in charge of enforcement/execution of the rules.

I mean really people, don't make an already over-officialized game get even lamer.

Wow you have no idea what you are talking about do you?

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
I was going to comment that maybe he didn't put third string in until it was 49-0, then I RTF.

Against Bassick, a team that has not won since 2001, Bridgeport Central had a 35-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. By the second quarter, Cadelina was already emptying his bench, but Bridgeport Central took a 49-0 lead into halftime. With the starters long removed from the game and with the team no longer passing, Bridgeport scored again, going ahead, 56-0, in the third quarter.

The problem here is that bassick should not have been in that league to begin with if they havent won a game since 2001

Yeah....I think it's time to move that school down a division...(not sure what class school it is)
Unless if they're already a clas D school, put 'em against the PeeWees.

 

[TheVrolok]

This is absolutely absurd due to the fact that he did, in fact, pull his starters early. I'm glad we didn't have this rule when I played high school football. My senior year when we won the PA State Championship we had a number of games where the score differential was 50 or, at times, more. I recall we had at least one game that ended 62-0 and this was against another AAAA team (largest schools in PA).

Having said that, as a starter I can honestly say that during the regular season I played less (and I started both ways) than many 2nd-3rd-4th stringers that only played one way. Many times we were pulled BEFORE the first quarter ended and our second, third, and forth strings still scored.

In my area, we had what was called the Mercy Rule and would take effect when a team was up by 35 or more. At this point, the clock wouldn't stop running ever. This ended games earlier and tried to curb additional scoring. This seemed to work fine for the most part. Keep in mind with this rule in effect, we still outscored some other teams by 50, without this rule it could have been even worse.

So I'm right there with this coach, what is supposed to be said to the 3rd string guys? "Go out there and give it your worst?" That's insane. My best friend since the days before we played was a 3rd string Safety, and you know, he never bitched about going out with the 3rd string and playing when the game was already put away, he was actually glad he got to play - sure that may far too much of a cliche for some people, but I can't even imagine having told him to go out there and give up coverage and miss tackles.

This just makes me sick.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: chuckywang
So you want him to tell his players to quit scoring?

Running up the score in a blowout IS considered bad sportsmanship. He could teach his kids something about that maybe.

He was playing his third string players. The coach was doing everything he could to not try to run up the score if he's playing his third string.

Then he has nothing to worry about:

It will be up to the three-person panel to decide whether Cadelina should be suspended, but Mosa said that Cadelina?s efforts to keep the score down would be considered.

That panel understands the intent of the rule. If he put his 2nd and 3rd string guys in when it was apparant they had won (like 28-0 or 21-0), I think he'll be fine. If he put them in when the score was 49-0, then he wasn't acting in a very sportsman-like way.

Edit: Nevermind, someone already posted that the score was at most 35-0 when he started putting his 2nd and 3rd stringers in.

They only managed to score once in the second half, so I wonder he much of the first half he was playing his 3rd stringers though.

28-0 definitely does not mean that the game is over.

During my Junior year of HS, my school's football team was down 29-0 in the 3rd quarter of a game. We scored 29 unanswered points to tie the game.

Not entirely the same kind of turn around but there was a game my senior year when we were actually down at the half 7-14 and we ended up wining the game 42-14. Swings happen.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: Amol

28-0 definitely does not mean that the game is over.

During my Junior year of HS, my school's football team was down 29-0 in the 3rd quarter of a game. We scored 29 unanswered points to tie the game.

Not entirely the same kind of turn around but there was a game my senior year when we were actually down at the half 7-14 and we ended up wining the game 42-14. Swings happen.

Neither of you are considering all of the facts. The team they were playing hadn't won in 5 years. They were the worst team in the league. It's not like it was a good team that got off to a bad start... it was a really bad team.

Anyway, if you continue reading the thread you'll see the suspension was lifted as it should have been, because the coach did make a reasonable effort to not run up the score.