CTV.ca | Coach fired after leading team to 100-0 victory
WTF, seriously?
So they actually do a good job, they play the game as it was supposed to be played, and the other team got their ass served on a platter with a 100-0 final score...... and they fire the coach?
Are they completely mental?
"Not Christ-Like?"
Basketball wasn't invented by Jesus Christ..... Jeezus..... if you're not going to play it the way it's supposed to be played, then why create a team?
We're they supposed to simply hand the ball to the other team so they can have some pitty points? Isn't that just as bad??
The coach defended his players and they did what they were supposed to do. Good for him. Maybe some other un-holy schools will want him to be their coach.... then they can come and play against the team he used to coach and make it 200-0.
The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honour and integrity."
Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."
Queal did not immediately answer phone messages or e-mail from The Associated Press.
On its website last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honourable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.
Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school's assessment.
"In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School website, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. "We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."
A phone number for Grimes could not be located by The Associated Press. The Dallas Morning News said Grimes did not respond to their repeated e-mail requests for a telephone interview.
There was no answer at a number listed for Doshier.
A parent who attended the game said Covenant continued to make three-pointers -- even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become one-sided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, said last week. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.
The story has received national attention, and the Dallas Academy team has been recognized for refusing to give up during the lopsided contest.
WTF, seriously?
So they actually do a good job, they play the game as it was supposed to be played, and the other team got their ass served on a platter with a 100-0 final score...... and they fire the coach?
Are they completely mental?
"Not Christ-Like?"
Basketball wasn't invented by Jesus Christ..... Jeezus..... if you're not going to play it the way it's supposed to be played, then why create a team?
We're they supposed to simply hand the ball to the other team so they can have some pitty points? Isn't that just as bad??
The coach defended his players and they did what they were supposed to do. Good for him. Maybe some other un-holy schools will want him to be their coach.... then they can come and play against the team he used to coach and make it 200-0.