NY Times article on Blowouts in Girls BB games

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by zebraman

I never saw anything to indicate they were worried about injuries. It was undue embarrassment they were concerned about.

I did not say they were. But in Football where the 40 point running clock rule is active, it is because it is a different kind of sport with injury factors. Basketball does not have the same concern.

Originally posted by zebraman

You mean leave it in the hands of the coaches and that will solve it? The reason they are thinking about doing it is that they have left it in the coaches hands and it isn't working.

Why not, they do already.

Originally posted by zebraman

It won't prevent blowouts, but it will allow the teams (and more importantly, the officials) a way to get out of the debacle a few minutes earlier. :-)

Z

Well it does not have to be a debacle just because of the score. And considering that this almost never happens on one side of the ball, maybe the girls coaches need to learn something from the Boy's coaches. They tend to call off the dogs and try their best to play the backups and get through the game. If we are going to have this rule, have it for the girl's side only. But we know that will never happen.

Peace