Connecticuit is turning their kids into WUSSIES!!!

[Ksandra]

CT wouldnt happen to be one of the states only reporting the schools/kids doing good, thus making them look like they are doing a lot better than they actually are, would they?

Actually no, just the opposite. No Child Left Behind is scaring schools across the country into giving kids A's whether they earned it or not, because that law says if a certain amount of kids fail a class then the teacher can get fired (no matter why the kids failed). CT did something right for once and tried standing up to the government by suing them for this stupid dumbass rule, and now the government is threatening to shut them down for standing up for what's right.

[EDIT]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4810586

Gives you an idea of what CT is trying to stop.

[Surealistic]

then our school beat them 55-0 in the championship game to prove a point: schools and coaches that run up the score are classless and will get what's coming to them.

so what your saying is 2 wrongs make a right, and as long as its your school running the score up its alright because its "karma"

tell me, does it hurt when you fall off your high horse?

[Not Kuno]

That's pretty stupid.

[Anyway]

then our school beat them 55-0 in the championship game to prove a point: schools and coaches that run up the score are classless and will get what's coming to them.

so what your saying is 2 wrongs make a right, and as long as its your school running the score up its alright because its "karma"

tell me, does it hurt when you fall off your high horse?

lol Surreal just owned your face, don't post again in this thread.

[vudoodoodoo]

You people are fucking retarded.

THERE IS NO REASON TO BEAT A HIGHSCHOOL TEAM BY MORE THAN 50 POINTS IN FOOTBALL.

This wouldn't happen if the other team DOESN'T FUCKING SUCK.

[salvador]

Even though getting blown out sucks a big one, coaches shouldn't be punished scoring alot more than another team.

I played soccer all 4 of my years in HS and I have been on both sides of the fence when it comes to this. It's not unsportsmanlike if the other team isn't up to par with you and can't keep up on the scoreboard. It just makes the other team want to do that much better next time. I remember when I was in my first year on the freshmen team and we blew a team out by 9 points. Our region was really competitive at that time so it's not like we were the only ones that did that type of stuff. Sometimes a team would score 8-10 more than another, then the next game would have the same thing happen to them. That's just how stuff is sometimes.

[Takeno]

You people are fucking retarded.

THERE IS NO REASON TO BEAT A HIGHSCHOOL TEAM BY MORE THAN 50 POINTS IN FOOTBALL.

None, whatsoever. I'm not some commie socialist that thinks dodgeball is evil, but I do know that a 50 point win in highschool football is bullshit. There are so many ways to prevent winning by 50, 60 90!!! points, such as a running clock, PLAY YOUR FUCKING SCRUBS, and not schedule inferior competition.

9 times out of 10, blowouts are due to 2 schools playing that should not be playing. A high school soccer team in my area is notorious for playing inferior competition, wining like 10-0 and getting a record of 25-1. They never play anyone good, and they've gotten a bye and a home game in the past 3 playoffs. All three times they got their asses handed to them. Karma's a bitch.

There wasone team in my school's football conference that went around and beat teams 80-6, 70-0 etc...and had no mercy on the deaf kids (it was 90+ to 0). My school would be up 40-0 at halftime, and the final score would be like 47-21 because our scrubs would play the entire second half with a running clock. The team that ran up scores got a majority of the all conference team and the player of the year/coach of the year...then our school beat them 55-0 in the championship game to prove a point: schools and coaches that run up the score are classless and will get what's coming to them.

I feel sorry that Conn actually had to make a rule to make what should be standard common decency: don't run up the score on an inferior opponent.

Pretty much like the US soccer team, always making it to the world cup because the only real team they play against is Mexico, the rest are shit.

[Surealistic]

when i was in high school we didnt have football, i went to a very small school and we only had soccer, and our first 2 years there was this team, valley lutheran, they werent in our division but we played them in exhibition games before the season, and they fucking destroyed us like 10-0 for 2 years straight, then my sophmore year they actually refused to send their varsity team, they sent their JV team to play us, we were so pissed, that was a kick in the nuts, so we took that and destroyed their JV team (dont get me wrong they were damn good themselves) as a message to them, dont underestimate us again send your real team or dont send anyone

[Takeno]

when i was in high school we didnt have football, i went to a very small school and we only had soccer, and our first 2 years there was this team, valley lutheran, they werent in our division but we played them in exhibition games before the season, and they fucking destroyed us like 10-0 for 2 years straight, then my sophmore year they actually refused to send their varsity team, they sent their JV team to play us, we were so pissed, that was a kick in the nuts, so we took that and destroyed their JV team (dont get me wrong they were damn good themselves) as a message to them, dont underestimate us again send your real team or dont send anyone

When your team is crap that's what you get, it happens all the time. Awesome 12 year olds playing against 15-16 year olds in soccer games and STILL doing good and not getting destroyed and even sometimes winning.


WHEN YOUR TEAM IS CRAP, LET THE LITTLE PLAYERS KICK YO AZZ

[Surealistic]

thing is, our team wasnt crap, valley lutheran was in state finals or state champs every year for class AA, we were class D

thats like duke playing miami of ohio in basketball

in our division we were the team to beat (>.> till we got to districts and had to play christian schools that recruited players)

[Anyway]

when i was in high school we didnt have football, i went to a very small school and we only had soccer, and our first 2 years there was this team, valley lutheran, they werent in our division but we played them in exhibition games before the season, and they fucking destroyed us like 10-0 for 2 years straight, then my sophmore year they actually refused to send their varsity team, they sent their JV team to play us, we were so pissed, that was a kick in the nuts, so we took that and destroyed their JV team (dont get me wrong they were damn good themselves) as a message to them, dont underestimate us again send your real team or dont send anyone

WOW Good story man. You showed them gooooooooooood.

[Takeno]

thing is, our team wasnt crap, valley lutheran was in state finals or state champs every year for class AA, we were class D

thats like duke playing miami of ohio in basketball

in our division we were the team to beat (>.> till we got to districts and had to play christian schools that recruited players)

YOur main team was crap compared to theirs, therefore they sent one that was more appropiate for your "crappy" level.

[Surealistic]

-.- your missing my point, yeah, we beat up on little kids

point is, they disrespected us, i.e. laying a 50 point bomb on another team, and instead of crying about it, "oh woe is me, they dont think we are good enough for their top dogs" we made them send their varsity team the next year

so someone drops a bomb on your team, slaughters you on the field and makes you look like little fairys running around with your pants down, dont cry about it, take it to heart, make that what drives you to not let that happen again

[Takeno]

-.- your missing my point, yeah, we beat up on little kids

point is, they disrespected us, i.e. laying a 50 point bomb on another team, and instead of crying about it, "oh woe is me, they dont think we are good enough for their top dogs" we made them send their varsity team the next year

so someone drops a bomb on your team, slaughters you on the field and makes you look like little fairys running around with your pants down, dont cry about it, take it to heart, make that what drives you to not let that happen again

Maybe the coaches wanted some sort of challenge for their players and not some stupid 10-0 game?

[Raivyn]

You people are fucking retarded.

THERE IS NO REASON TO BEAT A HIGHSCHOOL TEAM BY MORE THAN 50 POINTS IN FOOTBALL.

None, whatsoever. I'm not some commie socialist that thinks dodgeball is evil, but I do know that a 50 point win in highschool football is bullshit. There are so many ways to prevent winning by 50, 60 90!!! points, such as a running clock, PLAY YOUR FUCKING SCRUBS, and not schedule inferior competition.

9 times out of 10, blowouts are due to 2 schools playing that should not be playing. A high school soccer team in my area is notorious for playing inferior competition, wining like 10-0 and getting a record of 25-1. They never play anyone good, and they've gotten a bye and a home game in the past 3 playoffs. All three times they got their asses handed to them. Karma's a bitch.

There wasone team in my school's football conference that went around and beat teams 80-6, 70-0 etc...and had no mercy on the deaf kids (it was 90+ to 0). My school would be up 40-0 at halftime, and the final score would be like 47-21 because our scrubs would play the entire second half with a running clock. The team that ran up scores got a majority of the all conference team and the player of the year/coach of the year...then our school beat them 55-0 in the championship game to prove a point: schools and coaches that run up the score are classless and will get what's coming to them.

I feel sorry that Conn actually had to make a rule to make what should be standard common decency: don't run up the score on an inferior opponent.

I was gonna say something, and then I noticed that surealistic totally shut you down, so nevermind.

[Jaieni]

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[edgarfigaro]

then our school beat them 55-0 in the championship game to prove a point: schools and coaches that run up the score are classless and will get what's coming to them.

so what your saying is 2 wrongs make a right, and as long as its your school running the score up its alright because its "karma"

tell me, does it hurt when you fall off your high horse?

My school never ran up the score until that game, and we wouldn't have ran it up if they hadn't embarassed the deaf school. I do call that karma for them. Yes, we ran it up on them, yet we played our scrubs in the second half of the rest of our games to avoid winning by more than 50points. The MVP my senior year averaged 20 minutes per game, because there was no need for him to be playing in the last 3 quarters of the majority of the games.

There are so many ways to avoid beating a team by more than 50 points, it's not even funny. You know exactly what you're dealing with when the coach they blamed it on called a timeout right before halftime to score again. That's just uncalled for, and that guy will get what's coming to him.

I seriously can't understand why you think it's alright for a team to just slaughter other teams. Maybe once or twice in a season is acceptable if you have inferior teams in your conference that you have to play, but winning 5 games by more than 50 points just says that you aren't scheduling teams that are on your level, and that you're an asshole.

[Skyylya]

Good schools play well against ALL opponents, not just the ones they need to be. It's not the players faults that other teams suck, or the athletic directors and coaches happened to schedule a team below their skill level.

Bottom line is, that by instituting this rule, and holding the coach responsible, you're ultimately gonna hurt the players by sending the message that it's ok to do just enough and not your best ALL the time.

I was an athlete growing up, and you can be damned sure that if i was playing, i was playing my best for myself and my team, i don't care who's on the other team and whether they are good or terrible.

I'm perfectly ok with instituting things like running the clock etc...or similar things for other sports. But NEVER tell a kid athlete not to do their best from start to finish. Anyone who can't understand that was either on the losing team their entire life, or never played to begin with.

The arguement that mommy doesn't wanna see her baby sad? That's the whole problem to begin with, mommy has nothing to do with sports, if she doesn't want her kid to be sad, teach him not to be a pussy instead of coddling him his whole life. Encourage him to be better, don't tell him it's ok to suck.

[Ksandra]

Good schools play well against ALL opponents, not just the ones they need to be. It's not the players faults that other teams suck, or the athletic directors and coaches happened to schedule a team below their skill level.

Bottom line is, that by instituting this rule, and holding the coach responsible, you're ultimately gonna hurt the players by sending the message that it's ok to do just enough and not your best ALL the time.

I was an athlete growing up, and you can be damned sure that if i was playing, i was playing my best for myself and my team, i don't care who's on the other team and whether they are good or terrible.

I'm perfectly ok with instituting things like running the clock etc...or similar things for other sports. But NEVER tell a kid athlete not to do their best from start to finish. Anyone who can't understand that was either on the losing team their entire life, or never played to begin with.

The arguement that mommy doesn't wanna see her baby sad? That's the whole problem to begin with, mommy has nothing to do with sports, if she doesn't want her kid to be sad, teach him not to be a pussy instead of coddling him his whole life. Encourage him to be better, don't tell him it's ok to suck.

Again blame NCLB :D

[Norelco]

Wow, my thread owns.

I pretty much agree with running the clock if you're up by a certain score, but a coach shouldn't be penalized for doing a good job and the students should NEVER EVER be asked to hold back to spare someone else's feelings. That is ridiculous. We should not celebrate mediocrity. Those who work hard should be rewarded for it, not punished.