High School Coach Blasted for Letting Team Run Up 106-0 Win

[blazer1set]

This happened in California, but what think ye?

 

https://www.newser.com/story/312920/everyone-wants-their-team-to-score-though-not-like-this.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

(NEWSER) – Justyn Martin, a student at California's Inglewood High School, has committed to playing for UCLA when he graduates, but he had one more thing to accomplish last week before taking off his secondary school cleats for good. Martin threw 13 touchdowns during Friday's game against Morningside High School, which CBS Los Angeles notes is a countrywide high school football record. His drive helped propel Inglewood to a 106-0 win, a victory that's now drawing snark and venom for its coaching team.

"This violates everything you want from a leader of a HS team," ESPN analyst Dick Vitale tweeted Saturday. "How can anyone in their right mind defend the Coach of Inglewood?" "It was a classless move," Morningside coach Brian Collins tells the Los Angeles Times of Inglewood coach Mil'Von James, 36, who played for the UCLA Bruins in college and spent some time as a free agent with the Cleveland Browns. Others concurred. "We're supposed to be teaching young men life lessons through the game," one dad and fellow high school football coach tweeted over the weekend. "What message was this staff teaching last night? Sad."

Collins says he's proud of his team for not giving up, despite the dire numbers on the scoreboard. "The refs asked them to run the clock and they refused," he tells the Times. Collins also noted that it was an odd move to play Martin for so long in the game, considering he's now committed to UCLA and should avoid getting injured. In a Tuesday statement cited by USA Today, Inglewood High principal Debra Tate notes that James has since apologized to both Morningside's team and "the larger school community" for the "unacceptable" score and pledged to make sure the incident was not repeated

[WilleTheWildcat]

I was nuetral on the score until the winning team refused to go to a running Clock. SO DARN CLASSLESS!

I wish Spencer had one high school year more to play and would help the weaker team get stronger. ALL AMERICAN forever.

Edited November 4, 2021 by WilleTheWildcat

[BarneySox2007]

About the worst I can remember right off the top of my head around here was Alcoa beating Gatlinburg-Pittman 91-7 in the playoffs in 2005 the year before Rankin came aboard. Gary wouldn't have done that, to much class.

[OldandBusted]

1 hour ago, BarneySox2007 said:

About the worst I can remember right off the top of my head around here was Alcoa beating Gatlinburg-Pittman 91-7 in the playoffs in 2005 the year before Rankin came aboard. Gary wouldn't have done that, to much class.

Greeneville beat Sullivan East 88-0 two weeks ago... 

[noonesfool]

3 hours ago, OldandBusted said:

Greeneville beat Sullivan East 88-0 two weeks ago... 

O&B I think you know better. I’ve seen your posts and you seem knowledgeable and on point, though you don’t post often.

The California Starting QB threw 13 TDs. Greeneville starters were pulled before the end of the 1st quarter. Greeneville ran 25 offensive plays while Sullivan East ran 57 plays and controlled the clock for 30 some minutes. East threw 27 passes and completed only 5 or 6 passes. That stopped the clock. On their running plays they should have waited the snap clock out to the last couple of seconds.

you don’t tell 3 and 4 teamers to take a knee while East played 1st team.

Edited November 4, 2021 by noonesfool

[DBKPT93]

3 hours ago, noonesfool said:

O&B I think you know better. I’ve seen your posts and you seem knowledgeable and on point, though you don’t post often.

The California Starting QB threw 13 TDs. Greeneville starters were pulled before the end of the 1st quarter. Greeneville ran 25 offensive plays while Sullivan East ran 57 plays and controlled the clock for 30 some minutes. East threw 27 passes and completed only 5 or 6 passes. That stopped the clock. On their running plays they should have waited the snap clock out to the last couple of seconds.

you don’t tell 3 and 4 teamers to take a knee while East played 1st team.

I absolutely agree. Huge difference between starters rolling off 13 TDs in a game that lopsided and Greenevilles freshman team doing it against East. Still don’t understand how they scored 88 only running 25 plays. I need to see the box score and stats from that game. Has to be insane

[blazer1set]

8 hours ago, DBKPT93 said:

I absolutely agree. Huge difference between starters rolling off 13 TDs in a game that lopsided and Greenevilles freshman team doing it against East. Still don’t understand how they scored 88 only running 25 plays. I need to see the box score and stats from that game. Has to be insane

Some defensive TD's in that game too

[Williams]

they must a had bad blood.

[noonesfool]

8 hours ago, DBKPT93 said:

I absolutely agree. Huge difference between starters rolling off 13 TDs in a game that lopsided and Greenevilles freshman team doing it against East. Still don’t understand how they scored 88 only running 25 plays. I need to see the box score and stats from that game. Has to be insane

DBK, great question. GHS returned 2 or 3 punts for TDs (had another called back) As well as a couple of interceptions for TDs. I talked to a GHS assistant and they had some frustration with East not taking care of the situation on their end. Throwing the ball, over 20 incompletions which stopped the clock. Quick huddles and snaps as opposed to running time off. Your right, it was GHS freshman showing out at the end.

[DBKPT93]

1 minute ago, noonesfool said:

DBK, great question. GHS returned 2 or 3 punts for TDs (had another called back) As well as a couple of interceptions for TDs. I talked to a GHS assistant and they had some frustration with East not taking care of the situation on their end. Throwing the ball, over 20 incompletions which stopped the clock. Quick huddles and snaps as opposed to running time off. Your right, it was GHS freshman showing out at the end.

Well that definitely makes more sense. 

[WingT08]

If you don't want them dancing, keep them out of the endzone!

[Swipes]

3 hours ago, DBKPT93 said:

Well that definitely makes more sense. 

Here are some Stats from the Game.

• The Greene Devils gave the ball nine times to Keelen Lester, a guy so far down on a stacked depth chart at running back that he hadn’t touched the ball all season. Lester, a senior playing on senior night, took advantage, gaining 107 yards and scoring two touchdowns. 
• Despite being a senior on senior night, Greeneville’s star running back Mason Gudger only got to carry the ball three times. Could he help it if he ran for 51 yards and scored twice?
• Anthony Petersen, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound beast who would be a thousand-yard rusher on most teams in East Tennessee but is also stuck behind Gudger, carried the ball just once for a TD.
• Starting quarterback Brady Quillen and backup Corbin Cannon split time and threw just nine passes, including just two after halftime
• Greeneville ran just 25 offensive plays and rolled up 394 yards, or 16 yards a snap.
• Four Greeneville touchdowns came on two punt returns and two interceptions, and the Greene Devils had another punt return for a TD called back on a holding penalty far off the play.
• Greeneville had 33 players make the defensive stats sheet. That’s three teams deep on the depth chart.
• Sullivan East ran 57 offensive plays, meaning the Patriots had more than double the chances Greeneville had to score. Yet the Patriots mustered just 71 yards, or a little over a yard a snap, and couldn’t get the goose egg off the scoreboard