Girls Basketball Coach Fired After 100-0 Win - Video Added
DALLAS — The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”
Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes’ e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout “shameful.”
Queal did not immediately answer phone messages or e-mail from The Associated Press.
On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.
Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school’s assessment.
“In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed,” Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. “We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”
A phone number for Grimes could not be located by The Associated Press. The Dallas Morning News said Grimes did not respond to their repeated e-mail requests for a telephone interview.
There was no answer at a number listed for Doshier.
A parent who attended the game said Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become one-sided. There is, however, “a golden rule” that should have applied in this contest, Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, said last week. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.
The story has received national attention, and the Dallas Academy team has been recognized for refusing to give up during the lopsided contest.
(AP)
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Welcome to the age of O , we punish people for winning.
who the hell calls a blowout shameful? i call it an achievement. getting fired after having a record of 100-0 is shameful
I think the other team needs some more practice
No one died–no one lost a limb. From everything said by the girls who lost, it was no big deal. Games are played every week throughout the year where one team may drill the other team. It hurts to get your butt kicked, but if it doesn’t make you want to improve, then you deserve to get beat 100-0. In this day, no one gets cut from the team, everyone gets a trophy, and like Gaylor Focker they give ribbons for 10th place–where does it end.
Ive never in all my years of playing sports been told to “go easy” on an opponent. Its all about competition and if certain people cant handle getting blown out once in a while, then STFU and dont play. Sports mimic life on a small scale. So for example, if im making more money than the next guy, am i supposed to slow down my productivity or do my job poorly so that the other guy has a chance to catch up? I would have to say hell no. I believe that in life, only the strong survive. On the other hand though, I believe in helping those who are willing to help themselves.
Fuck what a bullshit complaint. Dealing with defeat is part of an education.
I don’t know if firing was in line but when you continue a full court press for the entire game and you would have to be deaf dumb and blind not to know that the team with 0 was just a bit out manned (in this case girl ed). That coach was out of line.
While I agree that the team who won should not be ashamed, unless they taunted the other team, I, as a coach, would have told my team to take it easy during the second half and used a lot of bench-warmers. Perhaps he did. I don’t have the time or inclination to read all of the background for this story. It’s a pimple on the ass of history. The coach shouldn’t be fired for it. Too much kissy-faced PC crap going on right now. It’s the end of civilization.
100-0 is a lopsided score, but if they don’t want teams to lose that bad, they should have invoked the mercy rule and ended the game.
Loser mentality never helps anyone, especially athletes. The wrong coach was fired. What a loser.
BTW, the coach who was fired out to sue the piss out of his school. A decent coach with the right attitude can take a bunch of non athletes and at least win some games rather than go WINLESS for FOUR YEARS.
Well another crop of Obambi voters getting ready to graduate from Dallas Academy. All losers, sorry girls, its what you have been taught.
The fired coach should apply for a job at the crappy school that couldn’t even score ONE bucket against his former team.
It couldn’t be more Biblical! WTF are modern day Christians smoking? Who is this namby pamby Christ character! Since when did love mean being a weakling and completely leaving out the warrior that protects the weak?
1st Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
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