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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:36pm
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How do you like this story...?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...t.40d72ee.html


As an official working that game I would have been a little hot under the collar....
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:41pm
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Makes you wish NFHS would introduce a blowout rule, where the clock runs when you're up by 20+ points...cuz I'm sure that wasn't pretty.
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:44pm
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Montana has implemented a mercy rule this year. Up by 40 in the 2nd half and the clock runs unless there is a time out, injury or Technical. It has been used a few times but I have not been part of that yet.
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:48pm
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What's the big deal? In the fourth quarter, they outscored the other team by only 12.

I'm sure if there was a broadcaster there, he would have made some typical moronic comment like, "the game was a lot closer than the score indicated".
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:49pm
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Looking back on my playing career, I don't recall the score of a single game played, nor do I recall any win-loss records. I do recall the friendships that I've made, and maintained. Some of those friendships go back 25 years. These girls 20 years from now might remember and laugh about a 100-0 loss, but it will likely be as a side conversation discussing parenting techniques, career moves, etc. Just my 2 cents.
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:49pm
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We have one league that has a running clock when a team is up by 30+ but only for lower-level games
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:52pm
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I love that the coach says "it just happened"...100pts do not "just happen"....
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 04:54pm
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If you convert to centigrade, the score is a much more pallatable 37.7 to -17.7
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 05:29pm
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Here's a good news story!

New Jersey Institute of Technology ends 51-game skid

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/sport...11286730.shtml
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 07:13pm
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New Jersey Institute of Technology ends 51-game skid

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/sport...11286730.shtml
Great quote:

The victory over Bryant gave first-year coach Jim Engles, a former Columbia assistant, his first win as a head coach.

"It's a huge sense of relief," said Engles, who joked that a friend told him he was "the highest-paid coach in the country per win right now."
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Old Thu Jan 22, 2009, 07:43pm
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California has a mercy rule -- 40 point lead in the 4th quarter we go to running clock except for TO's.

Like a 40 point lead anytime in the second half can be come back from in HS is absurd. The only way I would think that would happen if the team losing gets Kobe or Lebron in uniform half way through the third the comback might be possible. But even those 2 could maybe only guard 2 at best 3 players at a time
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Old Fri Jan 23, 2009, 01:28am
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Now the winning team is trying to charge themselves with a forefeit and has offered an apology...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
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Old Fri Jan 23, 2009, 02:04am
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I love that the coach says "it just happened"...100pts do not "just happen"....
At a girl’s basketball game, it just happened. You have to be pretty bad to not score a point.

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One of my most memorable games from last year:

Girls JV. School A are visitors and have a typical JV squad in the area. School B has 5 girls to start. One kid who is an athlete and some skills, others all look like first year players. School B's basketball program is in shambles, but has new varsity coach who has come in committed to making the program better.

It hasn't 'taken' yet, though, and this is towards end of the season. Nobody in the stands... Anyways, Team B is getting beaten pretty badly from the outset. Can't handle pressure, lots of easy basket for visitors. But the girls are playing hard, especially on defense!

Halftime comes, and visitors are probably up 40-3 or somesuch. Team B's best player has racked up 4 fouls. Partner and I know this, but even then, she clobbers a Team A player and we have to call the foul. She is gone, and now home team has 4 girls, and is getting 'slaughtered'.

So what happens? These girls kinda go crazy with effort the rest of the way. They had to be tired, and had every right to be discouraged, but played HARD for the remainder of the game. Maybe 65-5 by the end.

It made a very lasting impression on me. Very impressive.
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Old Fri Jan 23, 2009, 10:09am
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At a girl’s basketball game, it just happened. You have to be pretty bad to not score a point.

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Agreed, but the winning coach didn't just all of a sudden wake up and go "holy *&*() we are winning 98-0!" There are things you can do to call off the dogs...run your offense, but drop back into a zone on defense and work on some things...but hey if they don't tell me how to officiate I won't tell them how to coach
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