I've been on both sides of blowouts and it's not fun either way.

Kills me how Florida does this every year against teams they have no right playing yet 90,000 cheer loudly to a 65-3 victory. I'd be embarrassed.

Its tough for the losing team, thats easy to understand...but i really do believe that you grow more through adversity than you do breezing through everything. When that losing team wins one, it'll be twice as satisfying.

I work with an older gent, who was a very successful high school coach in his younger days & we were discussing this issue just the other day.

He once used a line on an irate opposing coach who's team lost badly...'I can only coach my players'.

I remember being on a basketball team when I was about 12. We lost a game by a score of something like 70-8. I know we were single digits. We were mad, but we weren't mad at the other team. Another kid's dad was there, I remember him saying something to the effect of "well, they're a lot better than you guys". Since I was the center and the best player on the team (yeah, I know) I had played the entire game and was pretty tired from chasing those guys around. Towards the end I stole a pass and raced the length of the court for a layup. It felt great. Except it was the wrong basket. That same dad kindly suggested that I have a seat for a few minutes and the coach agreed.

The other team was good, we were bad, everyone survived. End of story.

So does the stop somebody theory not apply to high school? It's not like the winning team in a hgh school game has out recruited and out resourced an opposing team. The coach in this game did all he could and everything right. With the turnovers and kick returns these things happen. Throughout my sports career (football, baseball, and wrestling) which went from t-ball through junior college I was on the recieving end of blowouts as well as being on the team giving them. It's part of sports. Everyone will survive. The fans where respectful. Don't know what else could be done other than the winning team kneeling on it the entire second half. The losing team really would have felt like a bunch of bitches then.

[QUOTE=GoHuge39;6080133]So does the stop somebody theory not apply to high school? It's not like the winning team in a hgh school game has out recruited and out resourced an opposing team. The coach in this game did all he could and everything right. With the turnovers and kick returns these things happen. Throughout my sports career (football, baseball, and wrestling) which went from t-ball through junior college I was on the recieving end of blowouts as well as being on the team giving them. It's part of sports. Everyone will survive. The fans where respectful. Don't know what else could be done other than the winning team kneeling on it the entire second half. The losing team really would have felt like a bunch of bitches then.[/QUOTE]


Good point.

Yeah, it was 50 when I was in school. And it was at the end of the period. So if you were up by 50 at the end of the half or quarter, it was over.

ITS at any point in the game....

Seen it many of times where my kids go to Highschool...

I don't see anything wrong with what they said... just stating the obvious that it's humiliating. It's just a writer looking for a story. :shrug:

So, how does it make you feel.... you know, losing by 83?

:doh!:

you know what really sucks, it doesn't matter how much you are losing in football, it is fun to hit, tackle and block, unless it one team looks like they are getting phyically injured, you practice so much, lift so many weights, prepare all ****ing week, you should be able to play until the end.

You mean Guthrie isn't tearing it up? I'm shocked. SHOCKED I SAY!:D

Guthrie won the state championship last year and is looking pretty strong this year.

I dont follow them to much...

My kids go to Oklahoma Christian Academy... They fail at football but dominate at basketball...

We were 2 games away from state in Class B last year. Such a fun ride! Lots of traveling....

If you scored for the winning team, it seems to me like you can claim that you were on the winning team.

Back to the original post, while it might be humiliating at the time, it seems to me that blowouts are good motivation to work hard to increase one's skills. As the coach said, it's not like he could tell his backups to not play hard. The losing team just needs to get better or find another hobby.

So the other team is just supposed to roll over and play dead because the losers say so? Sorry, chalk it up to a learning experience. Sounds to me like that coach actually tried to NOT run up the score.

I loved the 45 point rule. Only about half the games went longer than the required half and we still put up 60 a few times.

If you have 42 and the ball right before half you make sure you put it in the endzone since you know you won't be playing in the 2nd half.

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I didn't think it was possible for ass-backward to go ass-backward due to the restraints of physics, but apparently HS Football in Oklahoma has done just that.