The Mike Leach of Girls' High School Basketball

[Stallion]

Dallas Academy's Shooting Percentage:

ZERO-Point- ZERO ZERO

...putting them at the Bottom of the Delta Pledge Class

[Stallion]

somewhere Abe Lemons is thinking:

Girls-you scored no more points than a Dead Man.

[George S. Patton]

Well, then they matched Abe since Abe is no longer with us.

[SmooBoy]

My wife's cousin is the headmaster of Covenant and was not at the game. He is very embarrassed about the whole thing and is in complete damage control. What bothered him most in hearing about it was the coaches and parents egging the players on to keep scoring, and the chants of 1-0-0 in the stands. Things would have gone down differently had he attended the game.

Not sure if the coach will be fired or if he will 'resign' but methinks one will happen.

[SMUguy]

On PTI, Kornheiser said that the 59-0 margin at halftime should have laid down the ground rules: shoot a single 3 after the intermission, and the coach gets fired. Press even once, and the coach gets fired. Kornheiser was right - this cretin should be fired.

He said the game should be viewed as a good life lesson, so it doesn't get repeated in the future. If he wasn't such a soul-less tool, it wouldn't have happened the first time.

He should be fired immediately, and I hope he is. Immediately.

[The XtC]

[quote="Peruna2001"][quote="George S. Patton"]I betcha the coach of that school has accepted the apology because that is the human thing to do.[/quote]
Yes...you should accept apologies. That's what good people do.

Good people should also not take a week to realize something that they should have realized after 20 minutes of gameplay.

That being said, the coach is the one who should be apologizing and still has not publicly done so. This is the only quote from him:

[quote]It's unfortunate we got to 100 points in the game against Dallas Academy. It just happened, and we are not happy about that.

Please know Covenant intended no harm against them. I see this as a real learning opportunity, so we can prevent this from happening in the future.[/quote][/quote]

Funny thing about the coach's statement is that it didnt "just happen". They pressed full court and kept their starters in until midway through the 4th quarter. They wanted 100 points, and it wasnt an accident.

[Stallion]

Great publicity though-saw it on the ABC Prime Time National News at 5:30. Headmaster will fire Coach just so he doesn't get fired. But hey we crowned a National Champion partly by including teams that essentially qualified by "style points". There is a generation that sees nothing wrong with this-I don't either as long as "style points" count. (here they didn't-so don't jump on me). Even the lowest of the low Private School conferences decide thing with a revolutionary concept called PLAYOFFS.

[PlanoStang]

On PTI, Kornheiser said that the 59-0 margin at halftime should have laid down the ground rules: shoot a single 3 after the intermission, and the coach gets fired. Press even once, and the coach gets fired. Kornheiser was right - this cretin should be fired.

He said the game should be viewed as a good life lesson, so it doesn't get repeated in the future. If he wasn't such a soul-less tool, it wouldn't have happened the first time.

He should be fired immediately, and I hope he is. Immediately.

WRONG on the 3s.

They should've been told to only shoot threes, or maybe NO LAYUPS.
Perhaps for the entire game. (low % shot) Also should've been told to
play aggressive defense with each player coming up with at least 2
steals, and trying to get 3 nonintentional fouls. That would generate
free throws, and hopefully avoid a shutout.

[817pony]

The thing that makes this even worse to me, is the fact that this game was nearly 10 days ago. Now that the DMN has put it on the front page and all the TV stations are airing it, Covenant is going into high speed spin control.

My question to them is this.... If this is so highly frowned upon by your school and ethics, why weren't these same measures taken last week after the game, why wait until the public is aware of your actions?

This story was on deadspin the day after it happened with quotes from the coaches.

[docabel]

The coach has NO defense about what happened. You only need common sense to deal with a situation like that. The half court jump press when you are up 88-0 is absolute BS. I don't think anyone would have had a problem if the other team scores 0 for the game as long as Covenant wasn't playing overly aggressive. On offense, very simply tell the girls that they have to pass the ball 8 times before they are allowed to shoot.

I agree that Covenant will be forced to do something about this, just off the continued publicity this event is getting. The Dallas Academy girls have been on every major network morning show. Cuban is taking them to a night in his private suite. Nike is sending them to PHX to see the All Star Game and probably giving the team brand new uniforms....

Hell, we've been getting our butts handed to us at SMU for a while as well, when are we going to get some treatment like this...???

[mr. pony]

A good wheel chair team hangs 15 on Covenant. Dallas Academy is who should be ashamed.

[gostangs]

wow - multiply offensive - nice work there mr. p.

I'm guessing if your daughter was out there getting pressed when the score was 80 something to-0 - you might have a different outlook.

the covenant coach should be asked to resign - there is no excuse for an adult to get caught up in the "excitement" - his quotes are offensive - it didnt "just happen". This is a Christian school - time for little atonement.

[mr. pony]

Covenant did DA a favor. Maybe now they'll either get better or drop the program.

[George S. Patton]

wow - multiply offensive - nice work there mr. p.

I'm guessing if your daughter was out there getting pressed when the score was 80 something to-0 - you might have a different outlook.

the covenant coach should be asked to resign - there is no excuse for an adult to get caught up in the "excitement" - his quotes are offensive - it didnt "just happen". This is a Christian school - time for little atonement.

I hope some of you are proud of the mob mentality you are embracing. Do you have your torches and clubs with you?

I guess SMU loyalists have lived through something like this like 95-21. You know I'm not scarred for life and I don't think many of our players were either. Yes, we'll never forget it. But the only time we ever talk about it is the we play them. And even if UH never showed any remorse about it, I've still forgiven them for it.

And I also guess that everyone's rules on what a mea culpa should be needs to fit a criteria. And if it doesn't, then it doesn't count. I gather Dallas Academy has moved on.

Obviously, the media hasn't.

You know I've seen some girls HSBB games where the score was 85-10 or 92-6 or 70-15. Oh it was talked about but it didn't go very far. So how come the girls on those losing teams didn't get the same sympathy as the DA girls. Yes, I know the DA girls have learning challenges but I guess now we're quantifying who deserves the sympathy more. That's so selective it's ridiculous.

BTW, please don't quote Tony Kornheiser on this board. He typifies the East coast sports writer's snob mentality. To hell with him.

[mr. pony]

[quote="gostangs"]wow - multiply offensive - nice work there mr. p. [quote]

Didn't mean it to be. Just factual, I think.

I'd consider it a great accomplishment for wheelchair team to score double-digits against a team with no physical disabilities at all. I admire and salute wheelchair athletes. If my point guess-ti-mate was low, apologies.

BTW, what I find offensive is using this incident to attack Christianity.