HS football roundup: Beechcroft (OH) 96, Centennial 0; Naples (FL) 91, Estero 0

[KamaAina]

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=862709

A half-hour away in Naples, Eagles coach Bill Kramer—the man on the winning end—could use one of those.

He looked at the scoreboard late in the game, saw 91-0, and said he felt sick to his stomach. Kramer's team ran only 31 plays and he kept most of his best players on the sideline—for the entire game in some cases. But still Kramer knew what was coming.

Soon after the game ended, his inbox began filling with angry e-mails, some from Estero parents wondering why so many points were necessary, some from Naples parents wondering why their kids didn't play more in an effort to pad their stats....

The national record books are incomplete, but a score like 91-0 won't register a blip on the list of all-time defeats. It wasn't even the most lopsided score in the country this weekend — in Ohio, Beechcroft beat Centennial 96-0, taking knees on plays in the fourth quarter to avoid triple figures.

"wondering why their kids didn't play more in an effort to pad their stats"? :wtf:

Note: Estero, in southern Lee County, FL, was the scene of the recent Bible Spice rally in which the Lee County sheriff, in uniform, referred to "Barack Hussein Obama" and is now in pretty deep kim chee. A new curse?? :tinfoilhat:

[DS1]

1. I'd love to see video of some of these games

There must be a lot of interceptions going on

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I'll never understand why so many parents and others

take high school football so seriously. :shrug:

[bigwillq]

3. That would be against the rules in CT

We have a 50-point rule. If a team wins by more than 50 points the coach is suspended for one game.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. What does a team do if it gets up by 45?

Three knees and out? Punt on first down? Put in the JVs? :shrug:

I'm not being snarky; I'd really like to know how that works. Sounds like the team with the lead would just pretty much have to stop playing.

[MrCoffee]

5. I saw a HS game where a team was up by 49 in the 3rd quarter

Every offensive play in the 4th was three knees and out.

[bigwillq]

6. Knees

or just run the ball a few yards and let the other team tackle them. I think it's a stupid rule. It all started over one coach known for running up the score. They call it the score management rule...it's insane.

I wonder if the kids really feel better if they lose 49-0 as opposed to 50-0. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. It'd be better to just call the game at that point

Kollyforniya has the 10-run "mercy" rule in prep baseball — if a team is up by 10 or more runs in or after the fifth inning, game over. (If it happens on, say, a three-run homer, all three runs count.) If they used the equivalent of your state's football rule, the team with the lead would have to swing at bad pitches or make half-swings until they'd played seven innings.

Taking knees and intentionally getting tackled serve no purpose, and it's likely humiliating to the trailing team and frustrating for the team with the lead.

[KamaAina]

8. You mean the slaughter rule?

Kollyforniya has the 10-run "mercy" rule in prep baseball

What are you, some kind of sporting girlie-man? :-) Anyone who ever spent any time at all around youth baseball (Little League has it, too) knows it's the "slaughter rule"!

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. I was a sportswriter

We were never allowed to call it that, for some reason. :)

[bigwillq]

9. CT has 10-run rule in softball

but not baseball in HS.

[madinmaryland]

10. No Bellichik jokes. One of the problems in high school, is that there

can be some serious mismatches. Many schools (small) barely have enough kids to field a team. Many will have 20 or less kids on the team, with many playing both offense and defense.

It looks like the coach of the winning team, did his best, even though the other team was seriously mismatched. You have to let the kids play, but how do you stop the scoring?

[Marrah_G]

12. My guy is a HS football coach

He would never trounce another school like that. It is bad form. When the spread gets to big you put in your worst players, the kids who normally don't get much playtime, JV players, that sort of thing.

Nothing good comes of making a group of kids feel that horrible.

[nickgutierrez]

13. Naples really shouldn't even be playing Estero.

They are the defending state champs, and Estero is, as you pointed out, a bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere. While I don't think anybody quite expected that, it was never going to be close.