notre dame-19 vs. bledsoe-0

[basehits]

Cleveland played Sweetwater thursday and when it got to the 4 0 point a little under half way through the first half our coach put restrictions on us. By then he had put in everyone on the Varsity. Then at halftime he gave the defense chance to play up top and forwards had to play d and he just switched us up a little bit. I mean we can still have fun without having to score all the time.

 

I'm just taking this side becasue i know what it's like to be on the bad end of this deal and its not a good feeling at all.

 

That is exactly what I was talking about earlier....there are always ways not to run up the score....

What a nice coach you must have....I guess I have never seen a 19-0 soccer score before.

Now on the other hand if Notre Dame had 10 different players score...maybe that would be okay...I think

Even then I feel really bad for the other team.

[cincyred]

19-0 is over the line (no pun intended). I know ND's coach and he is a good guy. However, he let this game get way out of control. He should have approached the other team's coach at half time and asked if he and his team had seen enough. Kind of a peace treaty. No more ND goals. Play everyone on the bench. Ask the center ref to shorten the game to 30 minutes.

[chindit]

My annual story... a few years ago I coached at Hiwassee College. In my 3rd yr of the program, the first with any scholarships, I innocently took a match with a brand new NAIA, Va Intermont. Their coach told me, "It will be a good match, all my guys are freshmen..." I was not ashamed of that team, I just choose to put my efforts into E Tn kids and not so many foreign nationals, so my line was a McMinnCentral sweeper, a Lenoir City forward and wing, a Karns defender, that kinda thing.

 

Well, his team was all freshmen alright, most of the Ugandan National Team!! The ref told me at the half, they had searched the rule book and the only way they could call the match was if they tossed me, as I had no assistant. They were willing, if I was, it was probably 13-0 at that point...but I have been nothing if not a believer in the dignity of the game... I was mad at the other coach but mostly at myself and durn skippy, we played on.

 

I don't remember the final, it is an insignifigant footnote to my College Coaching career. The team got better, we won some matches that year, The young men grew up and a couple of them are now coaching highschool soccer and probably reading this story right now and laughing at the memory.

 

The undefeated Va Intermont lost their National ambition bid to Kings College on a goal scored by some kid from, I think CAK.

 

My point is, that their was something to be taught and learned, even in the most mismatched 90 minutes. How I dealt with that was seen by 18 young men, I refused to quit and refused to let them.

 

If I had it to do over, the only thing I would change, would be the uniforms. We played in black and it was hotter than the 7th level that night...........

[cincyred]

Setting an example for young men and children is every bit of the role of the coach. I saw the following happen at Camp Jordan Indoor this past season. My youngest was on a RECREATIONAL team that was beating another team 10-0 after the 1st 10 minutes of a 40 minute game. Watching from the stands, I saw the losing coach pull off his team and inform the ref that he and his team were quitting. I was shocked to see this. Why would he set this example for his U8 players that it was OK to quit? This coach did not discuss his actions with the coach of my son's team - perhaps asking for some mercy might have been a good first step. Instead, he just pulled his team off the field. Not sure how this coach would have addressed his team's parents, as I am sure some of them would have reactly negatively to his actions.

 

I decided to leave the stands and approach this coach, as well as the coach of my son's team and ask if they could just divide up the boys and play the rest of the time as a fun scrimmage. Both coaches agreed. A much better time was had by all the boys involved and some good soccer was demonstrated.

 

Winning is important. Quitting is not an acceptable action. But winning by a score of 19-0 should be recognized as unnecessary. The resulting impact of beating a team by this margin could be that some of the players on the losing side do "quit" and never return to the game of soccer. That would be regreatable and avoidable by a little better game management by the coaches involved.

[RetiredRef]

On an interesting side note, Chattanoogan.Com shows the final score as 9-0.

[blankguy]

But think about this one, 9-0 10-0 15-0 19-0...., The losing team always gets the ball back to get a chance to score. The kids get the full 80 mins to play, the only time it is reasonable to shorten a game is if the kids started cheap shoting and excessive fouling, but for the sake of just the number being high is not acceptable especially if the kids know they are going to probably get beat but keep putting out the effort to learn and play and try to get better. Sometimes being embarassed goes a long way in making better and stronger athletes.

[arsenal08]

bledsoe has had a team for 2 years and their coed, they should be playing a JV schedule so nothing like this happens.

[ztec10]

Do you think that they were just trying to stack their stats??? I think that there shoulod be another rule that says only 3 points can go toward your stats espcially if you have 8 or 9 goals in one game. That just means the other team is probably very weak...

 

What if the score in a game ends up being 5-4? or 6-5? i've seen it happen.. so those goals shouldnt count?

[1brutalchoctaw]

is there not a mercy rule in soccer, like their now is in football, basketball, and i believe baseball?

[chindit]

As an official, and being the ultimate authority on the field, I would not stop the match because team A was really good and team B was not. A coach that is known to encourage his players to put up goals with impunity has said, "If you don't want to get drilled like that, don't play us. If you can't compete, get out. I train my teams to win, and to win we score."

 

Again, I've not been a HS coach, but in competitive, if my kids can win 9-0, we will as sometimes goals scored and shut outs count in tournaments.

 

I do put restrictions on the players as soon as, in my opinion, we are the better side in a mismatch.

 

The other day, the boys had to (a) string 5 passes ( the center mid could only play back to a defender © the only shots taken were a combination through ball and cross.

[BlazetoFlames]

well last year they called it at halftime when blackman was playing oakland in the district tournament when the score was 8-0 i believe

 

 

it was called with five or ten minutes to go not at halftime

[AlcoasPaintedBridge]

Welcome to our world...

I have seen a lot of opinions so far, but none from the team that got beat.

I am sure they would rather be on the pitch trying than have some mercy rule telling them how bad they are.

Wouldn't you give everything to be that age again, excited about just playing the game you love?

All of you "holier than thous" need to get over yourselves.

 

BTW, The sun came up again today....Isn't it great?