mccarthyizm
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It's also incorrect, since the state of California has never had anything to do with promoting USC football.
Ferentz suspended 1 game, university fined
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It's also incorrect, since the state of California has never had anything to do with promoting USC football.
hawkfan340
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The variable you site, "a youth football league comprised of 7-13 year olds (having) a mercy rule", is probably a mildly detirmental factor for growth in American youth. However, among basically an uncountable number factors, it makes no material difference. But all the same, the particular factor you site is still stupid.
hawkfan340
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No more Oak Oppression, bro.
okeefe4prez
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If I were a coach in this league and my team was losing by say 21 or 28 with little time left, I'd have my QB intentionally toss a few pick sixes to get the lead up to 35, then I'd have the team take a safety to push the lead to 37. I would never lose by 35, always by 37 just to get the other coach suspended and fined. I would make a mockery of the mockery.
okeefe4prez
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It's not a mercy rule. A mercy rule just stops a game. This is actual punishment for being too good.
Anyone who watched the 1993 Bills-Oilers playoff game or O'Keefe's masterpiece against Pitt in 2011 knows that a lead isn't safe until it gets to about 56 points.
linus19
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This country has slowly and incrementally become feminized and weakened since the 1960s. This is just another example. This goes beyond a mercy rule; now a coach is actually punished. That's ridiculous. America needs to embrace a Clint Eastwood mentality and ditch the pu$$ified Phil Donahue/Alan Alda mind-set.
I guess I should appreciate the fact they were ever allowed to keep score in the first place.
ThunderHawk
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Two things: Most people are prey. They just are. They were raised weak. Even your grandpa. This includes most of you. See the post above this one for an example of false bravado trying in vain to camouflage ingrained weakness and absence of personal empowerment.
Second: Self esteem and self confidence are essential to personal empowerment and achievement. Fake self esteem and manufactured self confidence lead to disaster.
ThunderHawk
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I fail to understand the relevance of a mercy rule in a timed contest. I understand it in baseball, where a game could theoretically never end.
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tm3308
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This. My high school pretty much sucked at football when I was in school; we got drilled all the time and only won like 7 games in 4 years. Baseball was pretty similar for a long time (although we got a lot better by the time I graduated). As someone who was on the short end of a lot of blowouts, I'd rather have a team kick the **** out of me because they were that much better than me, than to have a team take pity on me (and that happened once; it's easily the most embarrassed I've ever felt on a ball field).
Running up the score isn't sportsmanlike. By that, I mean you shouldn't be throwing flea flickers when you're up by 5 touchdowns or other such plays. But if you've subbed out and you're still scoring on running plays, should you be penalized for not taking a knee on every play or just letting the other team keep the ball?
ThunderHawk
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Is it not the job of the defense to stop the offense? Especially at the high school level and above, if you can't stop a straight-ahead running play, you're gonna get get scored on, and you're gonna deserve it, and afterwards, your life will go on and in a few days nobody will even give a crap anyway. And if you're really invested in being a football player, you'll learn from the humiliation, resolve to become a better player, and improve yourself. Which will, wait for it...
...enhance your self esteem. And if your team sucks, and refuses to improve with you, transfer, or accept it and be the best you can and walk on to a college team and show them what you've got.
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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It scared me too.
ThunderHawk
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Anyone who's ever had to sit through a youth football game would probably agree that they should end the game as soon as one team gets three or four touchdowns. Because sitting through youth football is just a mind-numbing, soul-crushing experience in its own right. That sh!t should last one quarter, max.
OLWPAORWWM
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A freaking Men. Couldn't have said it better myself.
When I was a kid, playing hockey, I was on the team full of poor kids who didn't have a traveling team, and as a result, we wound up playing teams who did stuff like, you know, practice more than once a week, had their own equipment, and an adult coaching them rather than a high school student. We got the crap beaten out of us every time, and went 0-12 four seasons.
You know what we did in those games? Played dirty as hell. Threw punches. Got kicked out all of the time. That was the only thing that made it fun. That was the only thing my parents came to see.
Getting blown out does not teach me character. It taught me to be violent and resentful.
volhawk50
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I love how your parents came to see you get in fights. Your family wouldn't last long in California. (that's a compliment)
OLWPAORWWM
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We didn't get in fights for fun, we did it to stand up for ourselves. The jags beating us 17-0 were always kind enough to remind us how much we sucked, and I promise you the teams full of recruited ringers with Marv Marinovich dads beating up on kids playing for fun out in California are reminding the kids down by 35 how much they suck.
ShadasRevenge
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If you have a lot of one thing, especially if it's money, you had to step on someone else to get it.
