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

[Syringer]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/sports/19preps.html

Sharp on offense and unrelenting on defense, Bridgeport Central High School?s football team played a terrific game Friday night to win its season opener against its city rival Bassick, 56-0. Now, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference will decide if Bridgeport Central played too well.

Bridgeport Central?s coach, Dave Cadelina, is the first Connecticut high school football coach to face a possible one-game suspension for violating a rule implemented in May that prohibits teams from winning by more than 50 points.

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?My third-string guys work just as hard as everyone else to get the opportunity to go out there,? he said. ?We?re constantly telling them in practice how to tackle, block, execute, and we tell them to go hard to the whistle. What kind of respect would they have for me or the game if we told them to go out there and lay down? On the opposite side, if I were losing by a large margin? Well, there?s not a player I have ever coached that would want the other team to lay down. That makes a mockery of the game.?

QFT coach. This is possibly the dumbest sports related rule out there.

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..

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Good for him.

 

[JonTheBaller]

Can't blame the coach if it's 3rd stringers out there pummeling the other school.

 

[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.

 

[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?

 

[Queasy]

LMAO....what a dumb rule.

If they don't want anyone scoring more than 50 points then why don't they just institute the mercy rule at 43 point leads?

You can't put backups in a game and tell them not to try.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Syringer
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/sports/19preps.html

Sharp on offense and unrelenting on defense, Bridgeport Central High School?s football team played a terrific game Friday night to win its season opener against its city rival Bassick, 56-0. Now, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference will decide if Bridgeport Central played too well.

Bridgeport Central?s coach, Dave Cadelina, is the first Connecticut high school football coach to face a possible one-game suspension for violating a rule implemented in May that prohibits teams from winning by more than 50 points.

...

?My third-string guys work just as hard as everyone else to get the opportunity to go out there,? he said. ?We?re constantly telling them in practice how to tackle, block, execute, and we tell them to go hard to the whistle. What kind of respect would they have for me or the game if we told them to go out there and lay down? On the opposite side, if I were losing by a large margin? Well, there?s not a player I have ever coached that would want the other team to lay down. That makes a mockery of the game.?

QFT coach. This is possibly the dumbest sports related rule out there.

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..

So you want him to tell his players to quit scoring?

 

[tfinch2]

This is a backups time to shine. They are going to go out there and play hard, perhaps harder than a starter because they seek praise and have limited opportunities. I know that's the way it was when I played HS sports.

 

[slsmnaz]

The pussification of America continues...

 

[Vic]

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.

:thumbsup:

 

[everman]

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

I suppose the loosing 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.

 

[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.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

they should just do away with scores and give everyone a trophy!

 

[Phoenix86]

http://www.demotivators.com/potential.html

 

[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.

 

[mundane]

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.

 

[chuckywang]

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.

Sometimes the talent differential is so big that it just doesn't matter if you're prepared or not. That has nothing to do with preparation or the lack thereof.

 

[spacejamz]

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

I suppose the loosing 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.

and in other locals news, the parents of the losing team will file a lawsuit seeking an unspecified amount for the mental anguish and pain and suffering their children have suffered by the humiliating defeat.

As stated in that thread earlier this year, they need to do something about those kids who score too high on the tests...is not fair that johhny got a 50 while jimmy got a 95. We need a new rule to prevent that from happening.

 

[Syringer]

It does also suck for the kids with college ball aspirations..as being taken out of the game may hurt their chances if they only play one quarter a game.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Syringer
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/sports/19preps.html

Sharp on offense and unrelenting on defense, Bridgeport Central High School?s football team played a terrific game Friday night to win its season opener against its city rival Bassick, 56-0. Now, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference will decide if Bridgeport Central played too well.

Bridgeport Central?s coach, Dave Cadelina, is the first Connecticut high school football coach to face a possible one-game suspension for violating a rule implemented in May that prohibits teams from winning by more than 50 points.

...

?My third-string guys work just as hard as everyone else to get the opportunity to go out there,? he said. ?We?re constantly telling them in practice how to tackle, block, execute, and we tell them to go hard to the whistle. What kind of respect would they have for me or the game if we told them to go out there and lay down? On the opposite side, if I were losing by a large margin? Well, there?s not a player I have ever coached that would want the other team to lay down. That makes a mockery of the game.?

QFT coach. This is possibly the dumbest sports related rule out there.

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..

he played the 3rd freaking string and they were still better than the 1st string of the other team.. how does that make him resposible for running up the score.. the rule should be then the game stops at 50 period.. no matter how much time is left.

this is BS and Id get a good lawyer and fix that district good..

 

[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

 

[j00fek]

Originally posted by: JonTheBaller
Can't blame the coach if it's 3rd stringers out there pummeling the other school.

:thumbsup:

 

[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.

 

[waggy]

what a stupid rule. what did they want? to let them score?

 

[BigJ]

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.

Frankly, fvck that. Those 2nd and 3rd string kids are competiting for a spot on the starting squad. You can't expect them to lay down and not score when what they do in these games can have an impact on whether they may start or be a sub later on in the year. Hell, especially for the non-linemen offensive players, this may be the only times in their lives where they see the end-zone.

One of my years in HS, our 2nd string squad was better than the vast majority of opposing first team squads. When we put in the 3rd stringers, they were better than most of the 2nd stringers on other teams. When the 2nd/3rd string was in, we NEVER passed the ball. It was all ground and pound, and they normally ran the same exact play 3-4 times in a row.

On average, we scored 46 points a game over 11 games. Typically, those of us on the 1st team never played in the 2nd half.