Connecticut HS Football adopts no-blowout policy

[The Evil Genius]

This is stupid! Don't get me wrong, I am no fan of running up the score. But what are you suppose to tell your 2nd and 3rd stringers? Don't score?

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2457707

Coaches face suspension for wins of 50-plus points
Associated Press


HARTFORD, Conn. -- High school football coaches in Connecticut will have to be good sports this fall -- or risk a suspension.

The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a "score management" policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than 50 points.

A rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and the coach of the offending team will be disqualified from coaching the next game, said Tony Mosa, assistant executive director of the Cheshire, Conn.-based conference.

"We were concerned with any coach running up the game. There's no need for it," Mosa said. "This is something that we really have been discussing for the last couple of years. There were a number of games that were played where the difference of scores were 60 points or more. It's not focused on any one particular person."

Some have dubbed it the "Jack Cochran rule," after the New London High football coach, who logged four wins of more than 50 points last year. In New London's 60-0 rout of Tourtelotte/Ellis Tech, Cochran enraged the Tourtelotte bench by calling a timeout just before halftime. Tourtelotte's coach was arrested on breach of peace charges after police say he struck a security guard and an assistant New London coach.


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[Prosperity]

Yes, this is very stupid.

[Major Harris]

stupid, stupid, stupid.

calling a timeout when blowing sombody out is poor sportsmanship.

but like t.e.g. said, if your 2nd stringers take it to 'em, what can you do?

[Sarge]

How PC. Can't hurt anyones feeeeeeeeelings, can we?

We got our asses kicked one year by 52-0. For some reason our single A team in Va played the WV state AAA champs, because they bordered our county

IT hurt, it was embarrassing. But you know what? IT pissed us off

The next year we played them in the slop and rain



And beat them 3-0

[zoony]

Ahh... the "Kempsville Chiefs Mercy Law".


(sorry TEG... too easy man )

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[The Evil Genius]

Ahh... the "Kempsville Chiefs Mercy Law".


(sorry TEG... too easy man )

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Hey, when I was there - we are atleast decent.

[ashburnskinsfan]

A stupid rule. There should be other ways of dealing with genuine displays of bad sportsmanship.

I encountered a similar problem coaching tiny tots soccer. Because of bad coaches behaviour at U5 level (yes, we are talking about a game involving four-year olds) the league organizers had to add stupid rules.

We played four or five a-side without goal keepers as the idea was to have the tots run around kicking the ball. The goals are about the size of a basketball backboard. Some coaches apparently liked to keep one of their big kids in front of the goal to stop the other team scoring. Instructing coaches not to do this was insufficient, so the league felt it necessary to mark a no-go area in front of the goal where the players couldn't stand. If the ball went into this area and stopped the kids didn't know what to do - it was ridiculous - teaching kids the wrong rules of the game because coaches are trying too hard to win in a game involving four-year olds.

[Destino]

More then stupid. It's insutling to the kids getting beat by more then 50 IMO. Kids should be taught how to lose - not protected from hurt feelings resulting from a total butt whopping.

[scskin]

I coached a team that got waxed 70-6. The score was 50-6 at halftime. We ran the opening kickoff back, and it pissed them off. First time they had been scored on in the first half all year. I didn't think they were running it up. No matter how many we put in the box they were getting 5-6 yds per run with the 5th string. Refs allowed the clock to run in the 2nd half. Only thing I didn't like was a play action pass they threw when up 50-6. I told a coach about it when we shook hands afterwards. Some coaches didn't want to shake hands but I felt it was our jobs to stop them.

[The Evil Genius]

I coached a team that got waxed 70-6. The score was 50-6 at halftime. We ran the opening kickoff back, and it pissed them off. First time they had been scored on in the first half all year. I didn't think they were running it up. No matter how many we put in the box they were getting 5-6 yds per run with the 5th string. Refs allowed the clock to run in the 2nd half. Only thing I didn't like was a play action pass they threw when up 50-6. I told a coach about it when we shook hands afterwards. Some coaches didn't want to shake hands but I felt it was our jobs to stop them.

Exactly. And it's not like you guys gave up in the 2nd half right? You were still trying to score, right?

[scskin]

Exactly. And it's not like you guys gave up in the 2nd half right? You were still trying to score, right?

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Who Del]

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

WTF?? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?

[Sarge]

WTF?? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?

Many, many, many years ago. Kinda like when the iggles won their last championship

[Patrick Evidente]

If only they had this rule in the 1940 NFL Championships.

[DCsportsfan53]

Many, many, many years ago. Kinda like when the iggles won their last championship

I think he was referring to the fact that the quote said "when the GERMANS attacked Pearl Harbor"