After anonymous’ comments on last night’s blog, I figured that it would behoove me to do a part 2.
I think that the comment doesn’t invalidate or really even question my initial assertion that this is a case of PC run wild. If the administration of Dallas Academy (the losing school) feels like their girls can compete with the big kids, then they have to be prepared to compete with the big kids without expecting the big kids to hold anything back. It was also stated to me (although I can’t verify it) that the Dallas Academy team hasn’t won a game in four years. All that I can say is that if their athletic department can’t put together a winning team for four solid years, perhaps they should simply abandon their athletic program and start putting the money elsewhere.
Also, I looked at the Dallas Academy website and found that the school caters to kids who have “trouble with concentration and short attention spans”, so were not talking about kids who have to wear football helmets to protect the soft spot on their heads, or kids in braces or wheelchairs here. We’re talking about kids who fidget in class and find it hard to sit still and listen to a teacher for an hour at a time. Teenagers, in other words.
I also tracked down Coach Grime’s comments about his team’s big win on a website. The Coach said that, after they were ahead 25-0 in the first three minutes of the game, he “immediately stopped the full-court press, dropped into a 2-3 zone defense, and started subbing in my 3 bench players. This strategy continued for the rest of the game and allowed the Dallas Academy players to get the ball up the court for a chance to score. The second half started with a score of 59-0. Seeing that we would win by too wide of a margin, running down the clock was the only logical course of action left.” And they STILL managed to score 41 more points. So it sounds like the coach did exactly what anonymous suggested.
So what does this all mean? It means that the coach and the team played a fair game, won their victory fair and square and that firing the coach or asking the coach or the players to apologize is ridiculous.
Peace.
Randal
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After further research into the situation, I find that what you state is correct. It comes down to trying to decide when you have read and heard enough versions of an event to know what really happened. If in fact the coach played his players as he stated, then the only thing else he could have done would be to sit his players down and let the other team see if they could make a basket with no opposition at all. No matter what the true story is, I still feel it was wrong to fire this coach.
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