Article: The margin of error is 50 in Connecticut

[Bob M.]

REPLY: I agree. Thank goodness that common sense prevailed.

[gsf23]

It is a dumb rule and Connecticut should get rid of it as soon as possible. You don’t need a rule to suspend a coach for running up the score on a team. I’m sure that pretty much all HS Activities Associations have sportsmanship clauses and codes. You could easily use those to punish a coach that is intentionally running up scores.

A few years ago in Colorado I was working at a school where the girls JV B-ball team got beat by a score of 102-9. The opposing coach played his starters until midway through the fourth quarter and full-court pressed the entire game. A report was sent to the Activities Association, they investigated and suspended the coach for acting in an unsportsmanlike manner. The school later removed the coach from his position when a couple of the girls came forward and said the coach told them before the game that he wanted to humiliate this team and beat them by 100 points.

Now here is the real kicker. You know what this guys other job was? He was a youth pastor.