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To clarify a couple of items:
1. Anyone who joins a player's club at any of the casinos on the LV strip can get great rates on the rooms. I joined five of them in the past two years and just check who has the best deal before I go. FYI I stayed at the Sahara this time.
2. I truly have come to respect HawksCoach on this forum. His viewpoints and thoughts have always been posted with class and intelligence.
3. It seems to me that his main problem with the mercy rule is that it cheats his team out of the gametime for which they have paid. I was merely pointing out that there are other people besides players and coaches whose time is part of these games. I am thinking of officials, scorekeepers, timers, school security, gym administrators, on-site trainers, etc.
While the teams pay for the bulk of expenses of any tournament, I'm not convinced that this should give them more say than anyone else involved when it comes to how long the game should be. It is my opinion that the team pays its entry fee for the opportunity to compete, if they show that they are incapable of doing this, some form of mercy should be applied to the contest. Remember, I am from Nevada where we have Mills Lane to stop the fight!
I believe that the mercy rule is a sort of compromise to these people. If the contest is no longer competitive it shortens the amount of time these people have to give.
4. Lastly, HawksCoach has provided the way that his team treats being on the losing end of a blowout. As usual he takes a first-class approach. I'm sure that his team continues to play hard, execute its system, and tries to improve. In this situation, the officials should be happy to continue working and learning. Unfortunately, I doubt that most teams do this. We have all seem games in which the losing team simply gives up, or worse gets frustrated, and resorts to cheap shots. If all teams handled the blowout likes HawksCoach we would not need a mercy rule, but the sad fact is that the majority do not. In addition, we must consider the blowout from the winning team's viewpoint. Is this team learning anything from a game that they are winning by 30? Are they just fooling around and showing off? If it were my team, I would not want to play anymore than I had to due to the risk of injury. Who wants to lose their 6th or 7th man, let alone a starter, for the rest of the tournament to an ankle sprain in a game that it no longer meaningful?
Just my thoughts. As always, HawksCoach, your replies are eagerly awaited.
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