GFan23

Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 Gibbs played Carter at Carter in a boys varsity basketball game. I loved watching both the Carter kids and Gibbs kids as they went at it with each other with lively banter during the game. They are big rivals and the kids had a lot of fun and after all that is really what it is all about, the kids. It was a hard fought and well played game between both the Carter and the Gibbs team and Carter eventually won the game. When Gibbs played Carter at Gibbs earlier in the season that was also a hard fought battle between both teams in which Gibbs eventually won. Nevertheless, the act I saw from the Carter coach at the February 4 game at Carter was just unbelievable and classless. Carter was winning the game by 30 points and with 3 minutes to go in the game, the Gibbs coach cleared his bench and put in his Junior Varsity bench players which included freshmen players. He knew he was beat and that was okay. However, the Carter coach kept all his starters and “best” players in until they ran the score up to 100 points before he cleared his bench with 1 minute to go and after he made sure they had scored 100 points on Gibbs. Yea, I would be real proud of that 100+ points if I were them. If this is the kind of character the Carter coach is teaching his kids I am so glad my children go to Gibbs. Call me naive, but I just don’t think a lot of a coach that would be that way toward kids just because they had beaten him a few weeks before. I have never seen the Gibbs coach do that to anyone. Anytime Gibbs has ever been up by at least 30 points (sometimes less), especially at the end of a game, our coach puts his bench players in to keep from running the score up and to give them playing time and experience, no matter whether it is a team that has beaten us in the past or not. I can tell he cares a lot about the kids, not just the game. I am so glad to have a Coach such as we have at Gibbs. At least he is teaching our kids to have a little character and class.