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Old 01-27-2009, 11:22 AM   #14
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The kids on the losing team are just bad players. They don't have learning disabilities that would affect them performing on the basketball court. The AD/coach has girls on the team that have never played before. That school has been very successful in other sports, just not girls basketball. The coach should either work hard at teaching fundamentals or get a coach who can teach them.

All that being said, the other school should be ashamed of themselves. To only allow 7 shots in an entire game is bad sportsmanship. And to keep putting pressure on until they had 100 points is unforgivable. That coach is an egomaniac who enjoys embarrassing kids and should be fired. HS sports should be about competition, but also sportsmanship. When I was in HS, we beat a team in baseball 25 - 1. Our subs were in in the 4th inning and kept running up the score because they didn't want to make outs. The next practice, our coach killed us. The next time we played that team, they sent our JV team and it was a closer game.

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