Mercy Rule

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by APG

Football is a game, and by a coach deciding to call it quits for his team, he's taken that game away from his players and the opponent. In most people's eyes, there better be a pretty dang good reason for a coach to that, or he's in some trouble.

But don't the mercy rules being advocated by many in this thread do the same thing, for the same reason?

[bigjohn]

Happens in Baseball all the time, run rule. Baseball is the one sport where time is not part of the equation and a team could come back and win. So why do they have the run rule where as a football game has to be played.

I don't agree with kids not getting reps. Most of the kids that play in a blowout have a JV game of their own. Now if it is two big schools playing with plenty of non JV backups, play the entire time.

[APG]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

But don't the mercy rules being advocated by many in this thread do the same thing, for the same reason?

No...one outright ends the game.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by APG

No...one outright ends the game.

The traditional 6-man rule was that a 40+ pt. difference at or after halftime was a TKO. Game over. Isn't that one of the possibilities advocated by someone upthread?