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Hawks Coach:
It's not just in the post-season tournament where we have blowouts; it's the regular season, too. Over the last 4 years, I probably average about 3 varsity girls games per year (out of 25-30) where we've had the mercy rule come into play. How much could you have gotten out of your team if the halftime score was 43-4, or 39-0, or 52-6. These are actual scores. In these games, the losing coach either sits on his or her rear and takes the beating, or starts snipping at the opposing coach (until we take care of it). You continued to play hard and, under the Michigan rule, the clock would have reverted to stop time when you got the deficit back to 30. In games this lopsided, the winning coach doesn't call off the dogs. In that 43-4 game, the winning coach was screaming at me when I passed on a mid-court travel by an unguarded player on the losing team on the first possession of the second half.
The fact is, some schools don't have competitive programs and some recruit. Some coaches are poor sports, while others like yourself turn bad situations into teaching opportunities. Teams don't always schedule every game against the appropriate level of competition. The mercy rule takes care of those situations where coaches and administrators create the problem and are not going to solve it.
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Mon Apr 28, 2003, 03:04pm
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