100-0
I'm sure you've heard of this: The Texas school that beat another high school 100-0. Before I get into the latest news about this, I want to comment on the absolute insanity. You don't ever have to run up the score on team, especially when it's a school that specializes with kids with learning disabilities. It's high school basketball. Move on. Let them score, I don't care. And while there's substantive debate over whether the losing school should even be playing against a much better school. Doesn't matter in my mind. The winning school should not feel good about the win. The school thinks it's bad.
"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," Kyle Queal, the head of the school, said in a statement, adding the forfeit was requested because "a victory without honor is a great loss."
Now, the coach of the winning team was fired. The reason wasn't specified, but some will say it was over the coach's remarks:
"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.
Crazy. He deserves to be fired. Hopefully, a lot of schools can learn a lesson from this: Don't run up the score.
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