Middle school basketball team scrutinized for 100-2 win

maybe Kimper needs //// can't think of anything with out being mean.sorry

Kimper lost and thats a tragedy, but Kimper had no code and God was watching.....<--- "A few Good Men".

Well He could have inserted the cheer leaders or just had everyone sit on the floor! somethime you just suck, so suck it up. Why are we getting so stupid in America.

The refs should have called this at halftime.
You know, I was part of a blowout loss once and ALL of us wanted to keep on playing, no matter the score. We lost 72-0 in football but we NEVER gave up!
The coach from the other team came and told us how proud of us he was and we felt really good after that compliment. Our own coach praised us for not giving up as well.
Great lesson

I've coached youth basketball for more than a dozen years. If a coach can't figure out a way to keep the score down, he has no business coaching youth sports. It's not that tough regardless of how good your team is and how bad the other team is. No class.

Please stop coaching.

So you are saying that it is OK to reward mediocrity then? What if the team you are coaching has superior athletes 1-11? I have coached AAU basketball for 6 years now and have played teams where we would not run our play until 10 seconds remained on the shot clock and on almost every possession we would still score and beat times by 30-50 points.......................even after this was started in the 2nd quarter. You DON'T coach players to NOT play hard but you CAN teach and coach empathy...If my team does not execute the play until 10 seconds or less remains and your team is not capable of stopping it is that the fault of the players or the coach? If you are winning by 40 mid way thru the 3rd and still playing starters and running the fast break that is a problem. Don't penalize coaching by teaching the right lessons. A coach is SUPPOSED to teach the players to win and execute the offense and defense. My offense is to beat your D............with class............If you can't teach or coach your players to stop mine EVEN when I let off the gas that is on YOU.Our teams won games 60-2 and it is WRONG to teach players to not play hard or let up. Have a fast break opportunity? Teach them to back it out and run your set because you have proven you can run the break. Don't run it up but DON'T stop teaching and coaching................

The coach did all he could except remove his players all together. Man Im glad you are not coaching at any of my kids schools. You are an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the problem in America today. The trend is to praise failure and punish success. If a team cannot score more than two points when the basket is left open, maybe the coach should consider not putting his team in that position. Sometimes the best thing for your team is to not play.

I totally concur with you! The winning team should not be made to feel badly when they did exactly what they were supposed to. They scored baskets and obviously played great defense. Bravo to them.

Implement a mercy rule you idiot league officials, refs, etc.
50 point margin.....CALL THE GAME!!

I just watched some of the video.
Full Court Press!! Give me a break....stone the coach!

Perhaps you didn't read the article. He stopped the full court press after the obvious became obvious. The media simply chose to show the worst of the situation.

I agree...A full court press,really?? Just dont give the stones to Kimper, they'd never hit the coach.

The coach is an idiot...he probably chewed out his team for allowing the 2 points.

you might want to go back and read the article

Hey dumbass! Why villify the winners? Punish the lousy coach of the losers. The loser coach didn't prepare his team properly, therefore not completing his job to a satisfactory level. Fire the loser coach! Do not threaten the victorious coach of his job as the article states; and to golfguru, look in the mirror and you'll see something resembling a true idiot. You dolt!

In 1981 I played Pee-Wee BasketBall(11 years old)I was only good at stealing the ball(21)we only played 8 games 1 every second week I never scored a single point and we won the Chapionship but I had a good time.

Why don't we just call it a tie and give everyone participant trophys too!? What a joke. It's unbelievable that the US has become such a group of whining pansies.

How the hell did they allow them to score those two points? Ruined the shutout. When they're obviously losers, you need to COMPLETELY bury them!

Kudos to the Pikeville Coach. The only thing more he could have done would have been to tell his players to goal tend a few times if he had any who could jump that high.

You have got to be pretty damn sorry to only score 2 points in a game.

USA stands for Uninformed Stupid Aholes.

In the second clip, did anyone see the poor kid for Kimper......that's only about 3 ft. tall? Was Kimper's coach reallywanting to put any points up on the board. Everyone should get a chance to play, don't get me wrong, but get some points up there before you sub in Webster.

Actually watching it again...it was in the third clip. Sorry folks.

no wonder our education system has become an institute of whiners,what happen to the fighting spirit to learn from your mistakes.
catering to whiners only fill prisons...tough love means pick up the pieces and carry on...not whine about losing but what do we need to win!

I am not sure what the players on Pokeville should have done. From reading the acticle it seems like they let them do lay ups and shoot jumpers other then making the baskets themselves (which I think would have rubbed it in even worse) what could they have done differently?

It is the responsibility of the losing team to QUIT at halftime and go home to choose another sport. Life is about winning and losing at ANY age. Kids need to be taught when to cut their losses and find another game. Any sport but basketball for that team. If we don't tell them early that they suck at something they will think they are good and just be super disappointed when they are grown and find out when it is too late.

So the coach was in trouble for doing his job well? What a load of fertilizer! His job is to teach the kids how to play using the fundamentals of the sport. He obviously did that well. It's not his job that the other team was not motivated to play. Watching the video it was obvious that they were just walking through it. He did everything he could to make it less embarrassing to the Kimper team, short of just having his team sit down.

i agree with toyfox people should learn to toughen up and not bring their feeling to the playing field. i play jv football for dublin scioto and during our varsity game against westerville north we had shutout the team 40-0 by the end of the third so to let the other team score they put the jv team in with 2:00 left. they push back to 1st and goal and four 4 plays we shut them out, final score 40-0. when a team sucks they just suck.

Wow, should I even ask if these kids are getting an education? No wonder our schools system is broken, it is basically a front for professional sports. The rest of the world is laughing at us right now, while they take our hitech jobs. "But, seriously good game, U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A."

I think it is rediculous that people are saying it is the winning team and coaches fault the last thing they could of done was score for them....some people are just idiots smh..

I played serious sports from the age of 9 until my 40's. The year my highschool won the State Championship in softball we won a league game 45-0. The coach not only pulled starters during the 1st inning, she brought JV players up to play varsity, she moved every player into positions they'd never played, players all had to switch hit, no bunts, no steals, no sliding, only moved one base at a time no matter where the ball went, walked for the ball and to the bases instead of running, stood at the plate without swinging, and had players striking out on purpose.

I was also a sportsclub soccer player in the years before soccer moms were even invented and kids didn't have soccer leagues to play in. There were only 7 female teams in a 5 county area and those 7 teams were only a year old when I began playing. As more and more teams came along their players had never played anywhere else same as us. Our coach pulled the same kinds of things my softball coach did trying to keep the scores down. Difference here was that we were still learning just like the teams we were playing. Were we supposed to stop playing to make the other team feel better? We stopped playing to win once we knew winning was a given but we still won games along the line of 17-0. In the beginning it wasn't that we were good, it was that the teams we played were worse then us. Over the years as soccer got more and more popular there finally came a time when teams had younger players who knew how to play the game and new teams formed had players with experience. Once that happened games mostly stopped being so one-sided.

I think that scoring a 100 points in a basketball game is a bit much and the coach should have pulled his older players once he saw the direction the game was heading. But short of refusing to play and taking the loss themselves, what could the coach do? He pulled his starters before even 2 minutes had passed. His players began standing back and doing what they could to let the other team score. At that age kids are still learning the game themselves. I've been on the losing end of a few blowout and I'll tell you one thing. None of us wanted to stop playing no matter how lopsided the score became.

I think one thing the coach did was show both teams what good sportsmanship is all about. The players weren't poking fun or laughing at the other team and the rematch will not include his 8th graders. Sports can teach a whole lot of life lessons and it seems this coach is making sure his kids learn a couple of them. Treat the other team the way you want to be treated, be as gracious winning as you are losing, and always remember that you can be a winner one day and a loser the next. That's life.

Do you really care about this? Or what I think about it? I read about a situation where just the opposite of this story happened and the coach was fired. america is losing its values or whatever. :P

People..... IT'S A GAME!!!!! The kids should first and foremost have fun, then learn sportsmanship, and how to play the game. Yes one team wins and one loses. It's how you handle the loss that's important. Going through life you won't win every game and middle school is a good time to learn to handle failure. Neither coach should be fired or punished. They can only coach the kids they have, and if one team isn't good, then they should simply try as hard as they can to win. It sounds like these kids did try, but hey, they aren't very good players. But they stuck it out and finished the game. They deserve something just for that.

SIMPLE STUFF HERE,SMH...MERCY RULE FOLKS,BASEBALL,SOFTBALL AT ALL LEVELS(EXCEPT MLB OF COURSE) HAS BEEN DOING IT 4 YEARS!IF AT THE END OF THE 1ST HALF A TEAM HAS NOT SCORED CALL THE GAME!

Are you kidding me. This is the probelm with our society as a whole. We want to vilifie the winners and placate to the losers. This is a life lesson that needs to be told by the coaches. The winning coach did much more than I would have done in the same situation and losing coach did not do enough. Life isn't fair and until we quit living in this so called utopia of politcal correctness this will continue. One day 10 years from now these young men will be out there working in the world and they will think to themselves, I make more money than my friend. Should I give him a share of my patcheck to even out the playing feild. Hi answer will be hell no, let him earn it.

I read almost every post here and it's no wonder America is going down. "A house divided cannot stand" is a quote from the Holy Bible. We have gone so far from where we once started, that we will not be able to get back to the point of beginning. We seem to want to reward laziness (i.e. Occupy movement) and punish greatness. There is a war on the horizon, and I hope you all can wake up and see it. Cause' it's going to get very, very ugly....

WELCOME TO THE PUSSIFICATION OF AMERICA!!!! 20 years ago when the score was lopsided as such all you heard was the losing Coach getting canned. Sportsmanship is misdefined by most people who try too hard to be Politically correct.The last time I checked a Coach's job consists of teaching fundamentals of which ever sport he is coaching, Sportsmanship (win or loose do it with a good attitude), manage the game and practices. Guess what if I have more talent than you & I coach better than you blowouts and azz whippings. Get over it. What does not kill you makes you stronger, I dont think I read about any of the kids not living through this 100-2 loss. I have been on both sides of the 40-0 losses in football, guess what, teach your kids to compete and not expect anyone to lay down and roll over for them except their d@#* dog and this world and country would be a better place!!!!!

The kids on the losing team were obviously out matched. Its not their fault. The winning team had a large amount of skill over them. The real fault isn't in the coaches or the school system. The ref's should have called the game a lot earlier. There is no reason to allow those boys to get beat that bad. They could learn the lesson of winning and losing by a 50-0 half.